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Submitted by rudgarius on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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All The Pretty Horses
Cornelius Simon Deuschl minutes of the week between the 5 th and the 8 th March , 2002
"In the middle of the night" written by Robert Cormier
The title suggests that a crime happened " at night", something unusual happened. The book cover shows a boy with a telephone in his hand. So the reader has the association that there is a call or many calls in the middle of the night and that the boy is probably the victim.
At the opening of the novel there is an exposition. In the exposition many hints are given,
" not real facts", which are supposed to increase the tension.
The narrator writes all this down for his own good, in case something happens ( He/ She would die => the story would be a piece of evidence). So the story gets more and more mysterious. The facts given at the beginning are obscure and the reader gets confused.
He, the boy has a bigger sister named Lulu. She is something like a mother for him and treats him like this. She still calls him "baby" in spite of the fact that he already is a boy. But without doubt she sustained him through all the hard years he had. And he sustained her through all the hard years she had. So there are no parents, no other persons who could help or sustain them. They take care of each other. They both live with their aunt because they don't know who their parents are. She is a teacher and "she treats them like her classes" (= that means she treats them fair and takes care of them but she doesn't give them real love like a real mother would give them).
But they are afraid of something. Lulu is the one who wants to do something. She insists on doing something which he doesn't approve of. They argue many times about many things, e.g. the telephone calls.
But there is also another thing, they are arguing about: He doesn't want to be drawn into something which might be illegal but he also confesses that he would be too weak to resist...
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