Monday, November 18, 2013

Plot Points


-In hospital whole time – uses flashbacks to tell story of his life.
-Gabriel’s home life
o   Parents abusive
o   Thinks its aunt is his caretaker, but it’s a nurse from the hospital.
o   Vernon- brother, older, mental disability. Gabriel accidently kills by putting him in the refrigerator to stop his screaming
o   Surrender- dog, Finnigan and Gabriel’s both own him. Gabriel father makes him shoot him because Surrender kills another animal.  
Flashbacks
o   Finnigan and Gabriel meet
o   Make a deal- That Finnigan can do bad things as long as Gabriel does good things.
o   Setting fires – Finnigan sets fire all over the town.  No one can figure out who it is. The Dad starts a group to find the arsonist, but does not.  
o   Family issues- tells Finnigan about how he killed his brother by putting him in the fridge to stop crying.
o   Gabriel meets this Evangeline
o   Thinks that Finnigan wants to kill Evangeline
§  Finnigan thinks that Evangeline is using Gabriel and will get rid of him when she wants too.
o   Mom embarrasses him
o   Dad makes him kill Surrender
§  Surrender killed another animal
o   Kills parents
o   Gets taken away to Hospital
§  Find out that nurse is not aunt
§  That he has been in hospital whole time
o   Lying in hospital bed sees Vernon at window and flies away with him, symbolizing that he died.

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