Lucas Bradley

• Dark places
• English 10
• Ms. Oconnor

Characters

• Libby Day
• Lyle
• Ben Day
• Patty

Libby day is the novels narrator and the protagonist she is the survivor of the massacre that happened in her house hold. After witnessing the murder of her two sisters and her mother she escapes out the window and testifies her brother in court. Libby was a dynamic character.

Ben day the antagonist and the one who murdered his mom and two sisters Libby days brother. Back in 1985, he was your typical teenager, rebelling against everyone, who hated his mom and her habits even though she did everything she could to help her family. He hated all of his little sisters except for Libby, He was an ignorant, idiotic teenager who was very unlikable. He was a static character.

Lyle

• Lyle is part of a fascinating kill group who solve murders.
• Lyle is espeically interested in the Day murders and like many of the people involved in the group, does not believe that Ben committed the crimes.
• He offers Libby money to appear at a convention of the Kill Club where she meets other supporters of Ben. They spark a curiosity in her to investigate the murder further. She was only seven when it happened and was clearly coached through her testimony that damned Ben.
• Lyle was a stock character.

setting

• Kinnakee, Kansas 1985
• Sad deppressing novel
• In the Day family house

Narration

• The story dark places narration is a person narrator the narrattor is Libby DAy the main character and the protanganist

theme

• Their are many themes in Dark Places, it is poverty and hopelessness that is the very haunting. at paoints when i was reading this it was almost physically painful. As a young teenager my heart actually ached for Patty in her desperation,

Exposition

• Introduce story and the event that has happened to libby day about her brother killing her two sisters and mom.

Rising Action

• The rising action is when libby is at the bar and sees lyle. Lyle is espeically interested in the Day murders and like many of the people involved in the group, does not believe that Ben committed the crimes.
• He offers Libby money to appear at a convention of the Kill Club where she meets other supporters of Ben. They spark a curiosity in her to investigate the murder further. She was only seven when it happened and was clearly coached through her testimony that damned Ben

climax

• The climax is when Libby Day went to visit Ben day in jail and get answers out of him.
• She left knowing a few things. Ben was innocent of the murders, he had a tattoo of a ‘olly’ or ‘ally’ on his arm and that he was comfortable being in jail for something else he has done.

Falling Action

• libby finally finds out after 24 years who killed her family as it was not ben.
• Deondria went to jail for murdering Michelle, Debby was murdered by the man who arranged the death of Patty and Ben finally was released from prison.

Resolution

• this was a long time for Libby so she slowly had to start to be with Ben and restart their life fresh

REFLECTION

• I finished this feeling unsettled. Not because the ending wasn’t satisfactory but just because it was a pretty messed up story.
• This book kept me wondering what had happened that night until the very end. I suspected a piece of it but turns out there was so much more to the story than I ever would have figured out on my own.

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