Summary of what I've read today since I just started it.
Okay so it's about this 42+(?) year old man who visits the small town he grew up in because he has to go to a funeral. Of who I have yet to find out. After the funeral he goes to the pond at the end of the lane past the farm of an old friend's house from when he was seven. The girl who lived(/lives possibly) there called it an ocean. he still does not understand this and while sitting there we go to a flashback of what happened in his youth.
"Where did she go?America? No, Australia. That was it. Somewhere a long way away.
And it wasn't the sea.
it was the ocean.
Lettie Hempstock's ocean.
I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything."
When his parents are losing money they decide to rent out his bedroom, so he has to sleep in his younger sister's room. A man who boarded with them stole his dad's car and drove to the end of the lane by the pond, past the Hempstock farm and committed suicide, leaving in a note apologizing for accidentally gambling all of his friends' money away. when people are investigating an cleaning up everything the boy (he so far doesn't have a name, lets call him Kyle because I can) is invited to stay at the Hempstock house with Grandmother, Mother, and Lettie Hempstock. Lettie goes to the pond with "Kyle" and they find a dead fish. The fish is cut open by Lettie to discover that it died choking on a sixpence. Later that night "Kyle" has a troubling dream, and wakes up also choking on a sixpence. Then he is accused by his sister that he threw coins at her and her friends even though he didn't when he was with Lettie. They then go to the farmhouse and the Hempstocks discuss what is causing this. Lettie resolves to go deal with the thing that is causing it, and brings "Kyle" with her. The thing causing money to come from nowhere is some sort of spirit thing. Also, the Hempstock farm is from the "Old Country" and it brought a bunch of weird things with it, like lice. the spirit thing is one of those things. Anyway, Lettie tells "Kyle" not to let go of her hand and when she sings words of creation to keep it where it is, the thing throws something at him, and he lets go to catch it. Thats when he feels a sharp pain in his foot and Lettie snatches his hand back. Then she is done and they walk back to the normal part of the farm.
"Then se said,"I wish you hadn't let go of my hand. But still, your alright aren't you? Nothing went wrong. No damage done."
"No damage done""
When he goes home he looks at his foot and finds a hole with something in it. Then, being a seven year old boy, he pulls out a normal looking worm and washes it down the tub drain. Well, it broke off a little bit in his foot but he wasn't worried about it. Then the next day he finds out that his mother got a job, and theres a woman now boarding with them who is going to be their babysitter. her name is Ursula and somehow the worm turned into a woman who is making his life hell and he can't do anything about it, not even go tell Lettie. Also his dad seems to have the hots for her which is going to lead to nothing good I'm sure....
""I'm not afraid of you." I told her. I was afraid of her, more afraid than I had ever been of anything."
Okay so it's about this 42+(?) year old man who visits the small town he grew up in because he has to go to a funeral. Of who I have yet to find out. After the funeral he goes to the pond at the end of the lane past the farm of an old friend's house from when he was seven. The girl who lived(/lives possibly) there called it an ocean. he still does not understand this and while sitting there we go to a flashback of what happened in his youth.
"Where did she go?America? No, Australia. That was it. Somewhere a long way away.
And it wasn't the sea.
it was the ocean.
Lettie Hempstock's ocean.
I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything."
When his parents are losing money they decide to rent out his bedroom, so he has to sleep in his younger sister's room. A man who boarded with them stole his dad's car and drove to the end of the lane by the pond, past the Hempstock farm and committed suicide, leaving in a note apologizing for accidentally gambling all of his friends' money away. when people are investigating an cleaning up everything the boy (he so far doesn't have a name, lets call him Kyle because I can) is invited to stay at the Hempstock house with Grandmother, Mother, and Lettie Hempstock. Lettie goes to the pond with "Kyle" and they find a dead fish. The fish is cut open by Lettie to discover that it died choking on a sixpence. Later that night "Kyle" has a troubling dream, and wakes up also choking on a sixpence. Then he is accused by his sister that he threw coins at her and her friends even though he didn't when he was with Lettie. They then go to the farmhouse and the Hempstocks discuss what is causing this. Lettie resolves to go deal with the thing that is causing it, and brings "Kyle" with her. The thing causing money to come from nowhere is some sort of spirit thing. Also, the Hempstock farm is from the "Old Country" and it brought a bunch of weird things with it, like lice. the spirit thing is one of those things. Anyway, Lettie tells "Kyle" not to let go of her hand and when she sings words of creation to keep it where it is, the thing throws something at him, and he lets go to catch it. Thats when he feels a sharp pain in his foot and Lettie snatches his hand back. Then she is done and they walk back to the normal part of the farm.
"Then se said,"I wish you hadn't let go of my hand. But still, your alright aren't you? Nothing went wrong. No damage done."
"No damage done""
When he goes home he looks at his foot and finds a hole with something in it. Then, being a seven year old boy, he pulls out a normal looking worm and washes it down the tub drain. Well, it broke off a little bit in his foot but he wasn't worried about it. Then the next day he finds out that his mother got a job, and theres a woman now boarding with them who is going to be their babysitter. her name is Ursula and somehow the worm turned into a woman who is making his life hell and he can't do anything about it, not even go tell Lettie. Also his dad seems to have the hots for her which is going to lead to nothing good I'm sure....
""I'm not afraid of you." I told her. I was afraid of her, more afraid than I had ever been of anything."
I liked how you use every specific detail from the book to describe what you've just read. It was great how you grabbed meaningful quotes from the book in order to support your reasoning and for us to know the format of the book. I liked how you put quotation marks on certain names. Nice picture that's kind of how I look like when I get stressed. Great Blog Post.
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