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= Week 3 Adult: Lucy Emmrich = Student: Landon Ghast Book Title: The Westing Game Pages Read: 68-124

So far this week, three bombs have exploded, and apparently the bomber is Angela Wexler, Turtle’s sister. This is surprising because along with exploding the coffee shop and Mr. Hoo’s restaurant, she made a bomb, put it in one of her present boxes for her wedding shower, and set it off on herself, leaving her face injured and to have scars after healing. I’ll talk about Angela Wexler for the character. So, she’s the bomber, she’s Turtle Wexler’s older sister, and she’s Grace Wexler’s daughter. She’s “the perfect” child, and she always does what her mother says and always makes sure that what she does makes her mother happy. On the other hand, her sister Turtle is always neglected and does not interest her mother Grace. For example, her bedroom is basically a closet. Angela is to be married to D. Denton Deere, but she’s having second thoughts about it and is indecisive. I think she’s marrying him for her mother, not for herself, and that by the end of the story she will change to being independent and not caring about whether her mother his happy with what she does all the time. I also think that she will call off her marriage to Denton. Her mysterious part in the Westing Game is that she is said to look like Westing’s daughter, Violet, who killed herself before her wedding to a crooked politician, one her mother picked out for her, whom Violet didn’t want to marry. Angela is similar to Violet in the way that she is also getting married to someone her mother probably picked out and whom she doesn’t want to marry.

I am enjoying the book and I wonder what will happen next and how the story is going to end. I think that there are going to be some surprises left and that we are going to learn just who some of the heirs are. I think that Crow is going to have a big part in the rest of the story, and I think she’s Westing’s wife, the one Judge Ford is looking for and whom she said she needed to protect. Sydelle Pulaski is the mistake that was mentioned in the beginning, Angela’s the bomber, Hoo’s the inventor, and Jake Wexler’s the bookie. I think that it’s sort of funny when he’s asked about a game by Hoo and when he says to talk about it later, Turtle just says “It’s ok, daddy. I know you’re a bookie.” Turtle’s quite smart actually. But, we still don’t know who the murderer is, and I can’t wait until the final part is read and The Westing Game is done and won.

= Week 4 Adult: Lucy Emmrich = Student: Landon Ghast Book Title: The Westing Game Pages Read:All

Not wanting to ruin the rest of the story yet if you haven’t read it, so don’t read on if you haven’t. I’ve finished the book, and it was a very good story. It was mysterious and I like the interesting, different, and corky characters that filled the book. The ending was surprising and unique, and I think only Sam Westing and Turtle could hold the answer. I think that Turtle’s very smart to have figured out the mystery and to have essentially won the Westing Game. I find that the end of the Westing Game was complicated and brilliant. The thought of Sam Westing being Sandy McSouthers, Barney Northrup, Sam Westing of course, and Julian R. Eastman is hard to believe. Your guess was right, and Sam Westing wasn’t actually killed by any of the heirs. He lived unknowingly as Eastman until he was 85, and the only one who knew of his actual death was Turtle Wexler, or T.R. Besides the end of The Westing Game, the book ended with the typical where almost everyone ended up getting what they wanted. The ending was sad though because both Crow, who was Sam Westing’s wife, and Otis Amber, who was really a secret detective, died, but they both were happy up until their death and were married and working the soup kitchen together. Doug Hoo also died, but made fame off his invention of the paper soles, which is now ran by his wife. Doug Hoo won two Olympic gold medals, Grace Wexler owns a chain of restaurants called Hoo’s on First, plus 8 others, Jake Wexler is head of the State Gambling Commission, Angela married Denton and went to medical school and had a daughter named Alice, Flora Baumbach moved in with Turtle, who is now married to Theo, who is writing his second book, Chris went to a good school, married, and is now a professor at a school teaching ornithology, and he discovered a new bird species which he named after himself, Mr. and Mrs. Theodorkis retired to Florida, and Sydelle Pulaski got married too. It seems almost everyone had a happy ending. I think that this is a very well written and carefully thought out book with a mysterious game that seemed to have no answer. I hope that you enjoyed this book, because I know I did. It’s short and easy to read, and I think that many people of all different ages would enjoy it.

Lucy Emmerich Pages read: all I have posted things on here before but I'm not sure I did it right so you may not have gotten them. I have finished the book. Before Angela was announced as the bomber I suspected her. Later I had my doubts about this because Turtle knew it too. I thought this made it too obvious so it had to be someone else but apparently it was Angela. I think it was strange that Turlte called Mrs. Baumbach Baba. This was a very carefully thought out book and a great mind bender. Besides the fact that Crow felt guilty for what she had done to her daughter in the past, she still acted too strange throughout the entire book. Her behavior didn't always make sense. At the beginning of the book did it say that three of the members on Sunset Towers were a mistake or did it only say one? I thought the book said three were a mistake and I know one was Ms. Pulaski so I was wondering who the other two were.

I understand that Crow was the answer to the game however I don't believe the police would have arrested her just because of that. I think they would have wanted evidence or something first. I also wonder what they did with her when they took her into custody for the short amount of time. I was surprised when the building burnt down. My favorite part was when Mr. Westing's certificate of sanity had been replaced with a note from Sandy, or Mr. Westing, that said her debt had been repaid. I think it was very clever of Turtle to figure out the answer. I understand why she didn't tell anyone but I also think it's sad that no one knew about the man named Mr. Eastman.