The Westing Game Author Ellen Raskin Jacob

1. The Westing Game Author Ellen Raskin Jacob

2. Main characters of story • Shin Hoo born in Chicago has a restaurant on the fifth floor has a son and new wife • Flora Baumbach dress maker husband left her had a daughter died of pneumonia and closed bridal shop last year • Otis Amber a delivery boy and lives in basement of green’s grocery store • D. Denton Deere graduate of Uw medical school and is a plastic surgeon • Sydelle Pulaski went for one year at secretarial school secretary of president of sausage company • Berthe Erica crow mother died at child birth raised by father and married at sixteen and divorced at forty • Jake Wexler podiatrist graduated from Marquette married and has two daughters • Theo Theodorakis high school senior works in family coffee shop wants to be a writer and loves chess • Alexander Mcsouthers born in Edinburgh Scotland and is adoor man at hotel

3. Major conflicts in story The major conflicts are that sixteen people move into the sunset towers. There is a old house across the street that Sam westing lives in. The man dies the day after they move in and go to funeral and end up being his sixteen cousins. They read the will and it ends up being a game to figure out who is the murder and they get clues

4. THE MAIN EVENTS IN THE BEGINING The main events that happened in the beginning are. That sixteen new people move into sunset towers. They think westing is dead after hearing stories of him after they move in. They dare someone to go in the house and turtle finds him dead and doesn’t tell any body but the police find him dead the next day. The sixteen people are invited to the funeral they read the will and find out that they are all Sam westings cousins. The will is a game to see who murdered Sam westing. They get clues in the story.

5. The main events in the middle of the story The first bomb went off in the kitchen when Mrs. Theodorakis was getting something ready in the restaurant kitchen. Someone made a bomb out of a can and put it on the back of the stove. Then sydelle Pulaski thought she lost her note book with her clues in it . They called a meting to see if anyone would share there clues and no one did. Mr.Hoo gave Sydelle her note book and she thought he stole it and told her that she left it on the table after she got finished eating.

6. How the conflict was solved The conflict was that turtle was the bomber to see how every ones actions would be. The others went on in life turtle ended up finding out who it was she was happy with getting part of the two million dollars and won it fair and square.

7. The theme of the book Life is like a puzzle u put it together one piece at a time.

8. My reaction to the book I liked it because it was like a puzzle. What I disliked about it was that there were too many clues and main characters to follow. My favorite part about the book was, when someone pulled turtles braid , and she kicked that person in the shin.

9. Who should read my book A person that likes puzzles and mystery type stuff should definitely read my book ( The Westing Game ).

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