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“Speed dating”

“Speed dating”. Book Title: A Deadly Game of Magic By: Joan Lowry Nixon. Nitu Sharma English III- Period 3 Mrs. Henson 10/25/2011. Stranded?. "It's like we're stranded on an island. Nobody can get to us, and we can't get off." (18 )

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“Speed dating”

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  1. “Speed dating” Book Title: A Deadly Game of Magic By: Joan Lowry Nixon Nitu Sharma English III- Period 3 Mrs. Henson 10/25/2011

  2. Stranded? • "It's like we're stranded on an island. Nobody can get to us, and we can't get off." (18) • Lisa. Julian, Bo, and Teena have to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned old house, during a severe Texas storm, and from the moment they step into the house, they know that’s something wrong. First the telephone stops working, then they hear noises from the dark room at the back of the house. They can’t leave the house due to the storm, so are forced to stay their until a mechanic can come fix their car.

  3. I Wish I could • "I don't know. Right now I just want to make grades." Putting the thought into words was enough to make me feel a familiar pain in the middle of my stomach…When my parents talked about the awards my brother and sister were getting in college or their achievements and how I would follow in their footsteps, I knew that pain well." (17) • While waiting in the living room for the mechanic, the four teenagers start to talk about how their parents expected something else from them, while they wanted another. Like, Lisa wants to become a magician, while Julian a dancer, not a doctor.

  4. Headless?!?!?! • “As I entered the living room I could see the back of Bo’s head resting against the flowered armchair. But in the chair next to his, also facing the television screen, was the back of another head!” (78) • In this scene, someone, possibly a magician, had put a plastered, realistic looking head, next to where Bo was dozing. The teens took it as a sign as someone was trying to get them to leave the house.

  5. Disembodied • “I whirled and saw a cluttered array consisting of a low vase of pussy-willow stems, a china cup and plate, some small pewter statuettes, and a wooden music box. Tucked among them, lying on the mantel, was a hand- a white, disembodied hand that vibrated in rhythm- tapping, tapping.” (101) • Bo, Lisa, Julian, and Teena, again see something that make their suggestion of a magician being in the house stronger. After seeing the hand, they are all scared as to who else is in the house, and why they are trying to pull things on them.

  6. Back in black • "That's why we haven't been able to see him," I told them. " I think he's covered with black. It's an old stage trick. Black against black is practically invisible." (179) • Everything that the characters see and hear all someone lead up to the room in the back which is painted all black. They think that they can’t see the magician because he blends into the surroundings and is not actually invisible.

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