PRECIOUS BLOOD

PROTAGONIST

• Edward Jenner: A medical examiner. The nightmare of 9/11 made him turn away from forensics but a close family friend murder pulled him back into the scene.

ANTAGONIST

• The murder never caught

SETTINGS

• New York
• 1990 - 1996

CONFLICTS

• Man vs Man: Edward and the victims parents get into argument about Edward not doing any "work" for the victim.
• Man vs Self: When Edward doesn't know if he should do the job or not he is in conflict with him self.
• Man Vs Society: Edward is getting hounded by news stations asking about the murder and he gets upset and yells at them to leave but it sets more fuel to the fire.

EXPOSITION

• When Edward can't decide if he should go back to his job or stay out of it because he isn't sure if he is ready to come back yet.

INCITING EVENT

• Going to the murder scene and seeing the body and getting all the feelings sick feelings back

RISING ACTION

• The victims best friend who was there when she was murder is in Edwards apartment asking for help. She is cut badly and he wants to take her to the police station but she refuses so she stays the night.

CLIMAX

• Edward and the second victim start dating after months of the case not being solved a man has been following her around she feels like it is the man who murdered her best friend so Edward gets the case back open.

FALLING ACTION

• After months of being followed he thinks he has the murder but he gives up and Laura leaves him everything has fallen apart

RESOLUTION

• As everything has settled down he gets a call Laura has been murdered the book ends with him saying " I'm on it" ( not exactly resolved )

SYMBOLISM

• Laura does little things like goes to a certain coffee shop just because her and her best friend who was murdered went there and it symbolizes what they used to do.

THEMES

• The overall mood is scared
• And suspension
• And depression

TITLES MEANING

• After reading this book "Precious Blood" I think the reason that is the title because every clue Edward gets is so precious because he is close to the people being murdered so every clue is precious.

LASTING IMPACT

• I will always remember the way Edward felt before he went to the first murder scene and how scared he was to go back
• Another part of the book I will remember is how caring he was towards Laura when she first showed up in his apartment he took care of her when he didn't even know her.
• Last part that I will always remember is how fast everything changed when he heard Laura was murdered he went back into detective mode after so long.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

• Born in England
• Raised in Jamaica
• He went to school for pathology and forensics

AWARDS

• There are no awards for this book

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