I also believe John’s experience as an attorney has helped him make many legal novels that end up being very successful. It appeals to many 12 and 13 year olds because of John Grisham’s ability to make law understandable and his ability to make characters relatable. Overall I think the book was a great success. Probably the most flat character was Jack Leeper because throughout the story, he does not change and he remains “April’s long lost cousin.”(17). At the end, Marcella is proud of Theo and starts to encourage him to solve local mysteries. Marcella Boone, Theodore’s mother, is dynamic because at the beginning of the story, she doesn’t want Theo to get involved in the investigation of April’s abduction. Even Theo didn’t want to, he couldn’t help but see her beauty: her freckles and her artistic flair.”(13). Finnermore, April’s mother, is a very round character because she is described as a ”Woman with gray hair spun into a tight bun at the nape of her neck. Friendship was probably the overall theme because Theo said, “I would never tell anything April confided in me, I was her best friend.” (Grisham 24). Disobeying was evident because Theodore didn’t listen to his mother and went to North Carolina to find April. The major themes throughout the book were friendship and disobeying. In the end, April’s parents agree to counseling so that April will have a happy childhood. When April is taken back to Stratford, she is forced into foster care while her parents are fighting for custody, as her mom’s unstableness is brought to light during the predicament. Against his mother’s wishes, Theo and Ike travel to North Carolina to the bar April’s dad is performing at.
Theo and Ike then use circumstantial evidence and Facebook to find April’s real kidnapper, her father. After a few days, Theo starts to be unsatisfied with the lack of investigation the police are doing since they found Jack Leeper as a suspect. Theodore, being very distraught, goes to his Uncle Ike for support and advice.
As the police go through her room, they are led to believe her lost cousin, recently escaped criminal Jack Leeper, abducted her. In the second installment of the series, Theodore’s best friend April is kidnapped from her home in Stratford. (Except for The Innocent Man-he went way off the deep end into the sad Land of Misrepresentation of Facts to Make a Point. (I know, it sounds like it, but I really didn't.) I just didn't like it as much as I wanted to, and Grisham is capable of crafting better stories. Write stories for them as well as you write them for us.Īll that said, I didn't hate this book. Heck-tons of them live worse than this story every day.
#THE ABDUCTION HOW TO#
Come on, Grisham! You know how to write tension in your books for us grown-ups give the kids the same respect. The most exciting moments in this book come within the first few chapters. As with the first in this series, we get all the way to the end, waiting for an exciting climax, and. Gripe #2: Grisham doesn't seem to understand that kids can handle scary. You can't abandon reality to make your story work out the way you want it to. And I'm not sure what his editor was thinking when she let so many unrealistic things stay in this book (see my previous updates). It's like he decided to write for kids, but he doesn't actually know any kids and he just doesn't know how to write for them. Grisham is making me crazy with this book.
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