The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin For mystery novels in particular, the settings are often very important in creating the mood of the story. Describe the setting of this book in detail: paint a picture with words. How did the setting contribute to the mysterious atmosphere of the book? Sunset Towers is an apartment building in which particular people were chosen to live in…even before they decided to buy it. Sunset Towers’s apartments seem to be affordable and made just for the buyer. Although the name “Sunset Towers” suggests that the building should face towards the west, where the sun sets, it faces to the east. The Westing Mansion is located on a cliff near Sunset Tower. This mansion belonged to Sam Westing before he was murdered. Even …show more content…
though the mansion has been abandoned for 15 years, occasionally, smoke rises from the chimney and people who limp sneak in and out. These two buildings were located in an isolated area in Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. Describe the main characters and explain their importance to the story. What part did they play in the mystery? Did any of these characters change, or surprise you? Main Character: Sam Westing Sam Westing is the source of the plot, being ‘murdered’ and creating the Westing Game through his will.
As the story continues, the directions are mentioned in Barney Northrup, Julian R. Eastman, Sandy McSouthers, and Sam Westing. This signifies that these four people are somehow related. One name, Windy Windklopple, is the true identity of Sam Westing yet remains unknown. During the reading of his will, 16 unlikely heirs are called. Westing claims that one of the heirs present is the murderer. Sam Westing even knew he was going to be murdered before he actually was. Although his will states that Sam was murdered, many clues deep in the story say the …show more content…
opposite. Main Character: Turtle Wexler Turtle Wexler is a daughter to Grace and Jake Wexler and sister to Angela. Turtle is also the youngest heir, at the age of 13. She is very intelligent and is committed to playing the Westing Game. Most people, including her mother, dislikes her as she acts like a tomboy and kicks people on their shin if they do something that Turtle sees wrong. Turtle only seems care about a few people, including Angela. Despite the fact that Angela is favored by almost everyone, including her mother, Turtle stuck up for her sister as she pretended that she was the bomber, when Angela was. She also developed a close friendship with Flora Baumbach and teamed up in the stock market. Turtle proved to be a wise partner and made quite the profit. Main Character: Angela Wexler Angela is very beautiful and is a perfect child.
Although Angela seems happy with her mother, she is actually sad in the inside and is limited to what she can do because of her. All people talk to her about is how pretty she is and about her fiancé, Denton Deere. She was unwillingly engaged to intern Denton Deere and she sets off 3 bombs to show how she feels. These bombs weren’t meant to hurt anybody, just to express her emotions, but she puts her partner, Sydelle Pulaski, and herself in the hospital. She also damaged Sunset Tower’s coffee shop as well as the restaurant. Angela also reminds Flora Baumbach of Violet Westing, daughter of Sam Westing. Flora Baumbach is in the process of making a dress for Angela and also made a dress for Violet’s wedding, but Violet met a tragic end before the wedding
occurred. Main Character: Chris Theodorakis Chris Theodorakis is disabled by an illness and is forced to use a wheelchair. Chris also has speaking problems and can only pronounce small words with stutters. He is a son to George and Catherine Theodorakis and is a brother to Theo Theodorakis. Although these disabilities hold him back, Chris always tries his best and works hard to accomplish birdwatching. He bird watches with binoculars in his wheelchair from his apartment window. Chris can distinguish different birds easily and can name them as well. Chris cannot move around very easily, due to his wheelchair, but his brother, Theo, cares for him and helps him out. Write a summary of the story, explaining the important events, clues, and action in this mystery. Sunset Towers has been constructed and salesman, Barney Grace, wants to invite certain people to live in it. Jake, Angela, and Turtle Wexler; Mr., Madame, and Doug Hoo; George, Catherine, Chris, and Theo Theodorakis; Judge Ford, Crow, Sydelle Pulaski, and Flora Baumbach are the lucky tenants. The narrator reveals that one tenant is a thief, one is a bomber, and another isn’t even supposed to be there.
In the Gull Lake Middle School, 6th graders read and watched “The Westing Game”. The story is about people who are put into pairs to find out killed Sam Westing. In the end Sam was Sandy, Barney, Julian R., and originally Windy. There are many similarities and differences.
The Westing Game is about an old billionaire, named Sam Westing. He looks for an heir to inherit his fortune. The pairs of heirs were given a set of clues. Sam Westing was not really dead but playing three other roles. Turtle Wexler solves the mystery. The Westing Game book and movie have many similarities and differences.
I have recently finished the book and movie The Westing Game. The book had more detail than the movie Get a Clue. They changed some of the characters and removed some of the character in the movie. I will talk about the characters and the movie. The Westing Game was a great book.
In The Westing Game Novel Sam Westing was supposedly murdered and the 16 heirs in The Sunset Towers are trying to find who the murderer is. The heirs who finds the murderer gets his 200 million dollars but, I think that he isn’t dead and that he is Sandy McSouthers and he’s trying to get back at Mrs. Westing for Violet's death.
Sunset Towers, the place where everything happened, set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan (1). At first, the story is set in July, the Fourth of July to be exact, and then it progresses into late fall, or early winter, because of the snowstorm that confined the tenants of Sunset Towers inside,”the tenants of Sunset Towers awoke from clue-chasing, blood-dripping dreams, bound in twisted sheets and imprisoned by fifteen-foot snowdrifts”. Sunset Towers was very important to the development of the plot. All of the tenants were living with a burglar, a bomber, and really Sam Westing himself, disguised as Sandy McSouthers of course. As you know, the conflict was the game itself, and with all of the players playing the Westing Game and living at Sunset Towers. When you think about it, Sunset Towers was really just a big game board, with the tenants as the
The term change means to become different. People change throughout their life based on their personal actions, decisions, and experiences. This applies to characters in books as well. In the novel The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Angela Wexler, Grace Wexler, and Sydelle Pulaski are shown to have changed greatly.
The description of the setting is crucial to the mood the author intends to achieve. James L. Swanson, the author of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, describes the setting is a way that creates a foreboding mood by foreshadowing and decreases the tension of the mood by using descriptive sensory details.
One of the settings most important factor is location. Location is the basic aspect of the story such as conflict, reaction, character and plot. Sinclair Ross used the aspect of the location very we...
The setting is an important part of any story, whether it be a poem or a novel. The setting consists of all the places and/or things surrounding the character at any moment through any literary or visual media. A literary setting is often full of details and vivid imagery due to the lack of visual aids that are present in videos and movies. These details often take paragraphs to describe single settings to give the reader an imaginary vision of what the area would look like. Edgar Allan Poe is no exception to these rules and he clearly writes out the setting for his short stories and poems. Poe does an excellent job of using details to describe the setting of his stories and shows great care in choosing the wording of each description he makes to display his exact intentions for each descriptive setting. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Poe, the setting has a direct correlation with the mood in the story. The further into the story you read, the deeper and darker the surroundings of the two main characters get, just like the main plot of the story.
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story starts off with Rainsford and Rainsford’s hunting partner, Whitney, on a yacht heading to Rio de Janiero to hunt big game animals. Rainsford ends up becoming trapped on Ship-Trap Island, and that is where he and the reader are introduced to General Zaroff. Unfortunately for Rainsford, General Zaroff is not your normal General. General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar and different in many ways, and even though Rainsford believes that Zaroff is a sick individual, at the end of the story he becomes more like Zaroff than he realizes.
Second, what is the mood of this story trying to portray with the setting. The setting c...
Being able to overcome anything in life is a great feeling. There is a special feeling in the body and the mind when the body achieves a goal, and the mind gets a feeling of satisfaction. Since, the mind chooses to go against the body's will to quit, you have to be mentally strong. In Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” large game hunter Sanger Rainsford is tested in the following ways: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. To begin with, Rainsford has to pose as the weak against the strong, General Zaroff.
Setting - Identify the physical (when/where) settings of the book. How do these settings affect the moods or emotions of the characters?
The setting or settings in a novel are often an important element in the work. Many novels use contrasting places such as cities or towns, to represent opposing forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. In Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the contrasting settings of Talbothays Dairy and Flintcomb-Ash represent the opposing forces of good and evil in Tess' life.
The setting of a story is the physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs.(Meyer 1635) The setting can also set the mood of the story, which will help readers to get a better idea pf what is happening. The major elements of the setting are the time, place, and social environment that frame the characters. (Meyer 1635) "Trifles by Susan Glaspell portrays a gloomy, dark, and lonely setting. Glaspell uses symbolic objects to help the audience get a better understanding for the characters. The three symbolizes used are a birdcage, a bird, and rope.