OK so I've finally figured out what Narnie's story is all
about:
It's Hannah's manuscript. It's the story Hannah wrote and
left lying all around the house. Taylor's read it out of order and thinks about
it (and Hannah) a lot so that's why the boy in her dreams says the same thing
as Webb did. Anyway, still don't know where Hannah has run off to so
mysteriously, but she did call and then Taylor got all mad because nobody came
running to get her. I haven't read as much as I had wanted to by my third post
but this weekend has been completely insane.
So it's Sunday night and we have B-day tomorrow and I'm all
like: "Well crap! I still haven't found anything cool to write
about!" (Implying that my last two posts were cool) Just saying that as a
disclaimer because I didn't prepare anything ahead and this is stream-of-consciousness
writing here. I promise next time I'll do better. THANK GOODNESS I took a quick
picture of that worksheet with the questions for group discussion, I'll use
that.
Anyway, I'm going to rattle off some answers to that
question sheet. I'll pick two I can rant about for a bit.
What do I think will happen next?
Do I like the author's style?
First off, to the second question short answer: Yes. I think
the style flows best during high-energy scenes like when Taylor is hiding from
the brigadier or when she and Ben were attacked by the Cadets. Even if those
scenes are very brief they do shine, and it really shows. Maybe it's because I
enjoy books with a lot action though, so perhaps it's just me. I also do like
the two-stories thing between Taylor and Narnie, that way it stays interesting,
just as Taylor's story has taken a bit of a dip and is slowing down, suddenly
we're treated to an odd little fragment of Narnie's story that makes us wonder
about the big picture of all of this.
Still wondering where all this is going anyway.
What do I think will happen next? That's a tough one. What's
happened right now is that Hannah has vanished without a word to Taylor, the Brigadier
is creepy, Taylor discovers why the Prayer Tree might be a good thing to get
for Team Jellicoes instead of letting the Townies keep it, and for Narnie's
story she, Webb, Tate, Fitz, and Jude will always be Best Friends Forever (or
will they...? I have a bad feeling about this. It's way too happy to stay that
way, I'm a little paranoid about it.) I do think we will see Hannah again, but
I don't know if it's going to be in a few pages or in the last chapter, but I
have a gut feeling she's far from out of the picture (especially since she
wrote the duel story going with Taylor's) there's something she's not telling
us. Something that we need to know that will become some kind of revelation in
the story. Or not. I could be totally wrong.
I give my literary guesses about books about a 50/50 chance
of happening unless I'm reading When They Cry, because nobody, not even Chuck
Norris, knows what the heck is going on in that series.
Off topic, sorry. ANYWAY. I want to know more about the Brigadier,
I mean why is he hanging around Taylor all of a sudden, and sure he's a little
weird about it, but I want to know why. I'm tossing this idea out into the air:
wouldn't it be weird if he was Taylor's dad or something? I think she mentioned
that her mom never told her who her father was. And if it wasn't important they
wouldn't tell us. That's the basis for about 60% of my book-reasoning. The
other 40% is me pretending that I haven't read spoilers and correcting
"guessing" the ending. (Don't worry, I haven't read any spoilers
about Jellicoe Road. Honest.) If there's no reason for us to know, why even
bother wasting paper for it? Unless they're trying to throw people like me off
what's really going on. (O_O) Even so, there's no reason for it to be the Brigadier,
it could have been that weird homeless guy that nobody wants to talk about and
was supposedly very traumatic for Taylor. They've mentioned that a few times.
My best guess from the context he's mentioned is that he either did something
very bad, or was killed in front of Taylor or something. I don't have any
guesses about what territory the Jellicoes are going to get, I'll just wait and
see for that.
Goodnight! I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend! See you in class
tomorrow.
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