This story details how the disappearance of a triplet affects a family, more so twins; Elsie and Mika. While trying to keep her parents from living as emotional wrecks, Elsie visits her sister Mika in her new home of Miami. Elsie realizes that Mika is not the same as she once remembered. She notices the luxury trips, high-scale material items, blonde hair, and even a dying guinea pig. After hours of catching up and shopping, the twins head to a yacht party headed by Mika’s boyfriend, Mitch. While sailing off the coast of Florida into the Bermuda Triangle, Elsie finds Mika after losing her to various men on the boat who teased her. The Devil’s Triangle is a story about twins that not only deal with the missing of their triplet but the missing …show more content…
of themselves as well. One major element used in the story is the motif of Claire, the missing triplet of Elsie and Mika.
Throughout the story, repetition of Claire’s absence is able to be seen, felt, and even remembered. Even though she’s never she doesn’t play a physical role, her disappearance greatly affects her sisters and her parents. We find out at the beginning of the story that Elsie is holding the family together; cooking for her parents and keeping them busy with therapy. Elsie talks about Claire as if she hasn’t gone missing, which is weird in itself because her sister is gone and is possibly dead. The character most affected by Claire is Mika as she tries to leave her sister’s whereabouts “out of sight, out of mind.” According to Elsie, Mika is a completely different person that she doesn’t recognize. Claire has become more materialistic and fills the void in her life with items, contradicting ideas, and men she only finds physical connections with. Elsie alludes to Mika’s change of personality but Mika either brushes it off or the story is interrupted with another idea. An example of this is when their in Victoria’s Secret: “Who are you?” Elsie said, eyes wide.“What do you mean?”“I don’t know,” Elsie said. “Nothing.” She could smell the store’s perfume from the street. That’s how all the references to Claire panned
out. The motif of Claire doesn’t disappear though as we see her effect on her pet guinea pig, Pam, who is also a motif. Pam doesn’t play much of the role at all but her poor health and negligent owner is due to Claire not being there. Elsie tries to make a case for her health to Mika, but Mika brushes it off and Pam is forgotten. Another motif of the story is the repetition of three. “The Devil’s Triangle,” the boat heading into the Bermuda Triangle, triplets, and the triangle of Mika’s bikini that get’s pulled off and put back on. They don’t physically and mentally affect the characters, but it just reinforces the underlying theme of missing. Although I’d like to focus on the main element of motifs, flashbacks also play a huge role in the story. References to Claire are motifs but they often came in the form of flashbacks that interrupted the plot at random times. The flashbacks recount how distraught the sisters were when trying to find Claire in the mountains. The flashbacks help us understand the characters in the story better because we know their motives and why they act the way they do. Flashbacks and the motifs of threes, Claire, and Pam all play an important role of tying the theme of “missing” together. From these elements, we learn more about the characters motives and backgrounds as well as how it will move the story forward.
Albert Hernandez Ms. Bolin CSU Expos Read/Write 1: Period 5 20 September 2016 The Road Lit Circle #2 Discussion Questions: On pages 84 to 86, why did the man decide to ignore the boy that the little boy saw? How does the man’s decision affect the story and the characters? What is the purpose of the red scarfs in the group of armed men?
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