Title
Flowers in the Attic
Author
Virginia Andrews
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 0NE
The Dollanger family was a very happy and firm family. Father, mother, one daughter ( Cathy ), one son ( Chris ) and a twins ( Carry and Cory ). That evening father has become 36, everybody was dressed very chiquely and everyone waits with anguish for the moment of father's arrival, but he doesn't come. Two policemen come to the Dollanger's house to tell that Mr.Dollanger is perished in a car accident. All the hearts of the family are broken. They had to move, because the bills can't be payed anymore. They want to move in with the parents of Mrs.Dollanger, extremely rich people. Mrs.Dollanger wants to rewin the affection of her father, which she has lost, because of something that happened in the past and he disinherited her of the thing that happened. Her father was going to die, so if she rewins his affection and he makes her heiress again, they'll soon be very rich. She writes a letter and after a lot of letters her parents agree with it. The children don't want to move.
CHAPTER TWO
After a long trip by train and by foot, they finally arrive at the house where Mrs.Dollanger's mother brings the children to a room they aren't allowed to leave. They aren't allowed to make noise and nobody must know that they ( the four children ) were in the house, especially grandfather, because he would send them straight away.
CHAPTER THREE
When grandmother comes over to bring food the next morning, the children get a list of all the houserules and they have to learn them inside out. Grandmother isn't nice.
CHAPTER FOUR
Cathy, Christopher, Carry and Cory go to the attic, the room where they discover the strange things. They also dis-cover that there have been locked up more children in the attic. After a while they want fresh air from outside, espe-cially Carrie and Cory. In the evening their mother visits them and she looks very bad.
CHAPTER FIVE
Mother asks them how they have spent the day and the twins start complaining and yelling that they want to leave the room. They yell so hard that it drives grandmother crazy and she hits Cory and pulls Carrie up on her hair. Then the children find out how it is possible that mother looks so badly. She has been hitten with a whip and grandmo-ther tells them she does the same with them if they don't listen to the rules.
CHAPTER SIX
Mother tells them why her parents are so strict. ( In the past she has always been the most valuable possession of her father and when she married her half-uncle, they saw this as a great sin ). Mother will follow a secretary-course so that they can move out of the house very quickly.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The children pass the very long and boring days with all sorts of games, then their mother tells them that grandfather has written under the letter, she had sent before they went to this house, that the only thing good about her marriage with her half-uncle has been that they didn't have children. That means that they aren't allowed to leave the room untill grandfather has died, because he may absolutely not know that they are in the house.
CHAPTER EIGHT
To make the twins feel more comfortable in the scarey attic, they start to make a garden of paper. After a while the twins get used to the idea that the garden of paper is, the only garden where they can go to, that they can't go outsi-de anymore. Cathy was sometimes troubled with crying-fits. In the meantime they are already two months in the attic.
CHAPTER NINE
The holidays almost start. At thanksgiving their mother brings them in secret a spread feast-meal and at Christmas she gives so much presents there isn't a place in the room that's free, but the nicest present she brings them is that her father makes her heiress again. The children have to win grandmother's affection, they made a present for her, but she doesn't take it.
CHAPTER TEN
Cathy and Chris hide in a secret place their mother has showed them. Now they can look at the party what in ho-nour of Christmas is given in the house. They see their mother with a man the whole evening and they wonder what kind of relation they've got with each other. Chris takes the chance to look through the whole house.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
When Chris returns, his mother is in the room and she gives him a smash in the face so mad she is on the fact that Chris has left the room. She regrets it immediately but Chris and Cathy think she has changed. Chris tells Cathy that the man their mother was with the whole evening has kissed her.
CHAPTER TWELVE
They now are a year in the attic. Cathy and Chris slowly begin to come into puberty. They start growing up.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Grandmother has catches Cathy ( naked ) and Chris ( who is staring at Cathy ) in the bathroom. She thinks it's terrible and she wants to punish the children for this. They don't get food untill Cathy has cutted off her hair. Ca-thy doesn't want this and the next morning has grnadmother Cathy's ( when she was sleeping ) doused intar. With difficulty they got it out. For two weeks theu don't get food. They were almost starved to death, they even have in mind to eat mice and Chris let the twins drink of his own blood. Just when they want to escape out of the house, grandmother brings them a basket woth food. Their mother doesn't come to them anymore.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Cathy and Chris go out of the house by an id of cheets, so they can go swimming in a lake. When they return they feel a lot better. In the meantime their mother hasn't visit them for a month.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
On a rainy afternoon Chris stares sadly out of the window when grandmother comes in ( they aren't allowed to look out of the window ). She orders him to go away by the window but instead of obey her he starts to abrise her. Grandmother gets so furious that Cathy and Chris are thrashed by the whip.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
One morning there's a mouse sticked in a mouse-trap, with one paw. Cory wants him as a pet, so there is a new mate, Mickey.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
After 2 months mother visits them again. But instead of embrace her, they read her a lecture. Cathy doesn't believe her anymore and she is depressive she wants to commit suïcide. Their mother will not visit them untill they treat her with respect and love.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
After ten days mother comes again. She tells them she is married again and that she is very happy. The children don't like this of course. Cathy and Chris want to escape and they want to take the twins with them. Chris forges the key of the room and he steals money from his mother every day, so that they soon have enough money to live with. (At least for a while).
CHAPTER NINETEEN
When Chris is ill one day, Cathy goes out to steal. When she wants to enter the bedroom of her mother she sees her stepfather sleeping in a chair. She feels very attracted to him and kisses him while he is sleeping. When Chris goes out stealing, suddenly his mother and stepfather come in. He just can escape. Chris and Cathy's longing for passion grows. One evening they have sex with each other. Their mother has discovered that she misses money, but thinks the servant girls have done it.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Cory gets ill. He has to be teated in a hospital. Grandmother and mother take him there, where he dies of pneumo-nia. (That is what mother and grandmother say). Now Chris Cathy and Carrie want to escape as quick as possible.
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
When Chris the evening before they are leaving wants to steal the jewelery of his mother, everything in her be-droom has gone. Mother and stepfather have gone also. He wants to steal from his grandmother but she is still awa-ke, then he dicides to steal from grandfather. (He sleeps in another room). He dicoveres the most horrible thing: Grandfather ha died a year ago and their mother didn't tell them.
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO
They find out, Cory didn't die a natural death, but he was poisoned by the castor powder that always was on the donuts grandmother gave them. They also find out that their mother would lose everything if it appeared that she has children. (This was in the testament). They escape out of the house after three years and five months. They finally can start a new life.
TITLE
Flowers in the attic is the title because the four children made a garden in the attic with paper flowers. That garden later was a real garden with real flowers to the children.
THEME
It shows how mean some people can be and that all for some money. It also shows how people can build a life in one room without any fresh air. How some people can live together in a small room for such a long time, how they are going to love each other.
CHARACTERS
Mother à she loves her children deep in her heart. She does everything fot money. Later she betrays the children.
Grandmother à she's mean. She doesn't show her feelings to anyone. She doesn't know how to love.
Chris à the oldest son of the Dollanganger family. He is very clever boy. He likes to read, he wants to be a doctor. In the attic he takes over the roll as a father.
Cathy à the oldest daughter. She doesn't know where to go with her feelings. She loved her father very much. She likes ballet and music.
Carrie à one of the twince. She is affraid and she sees a mother in Cathy.
Cory à the other half of the twince, he is afraid also. He doesn't understand why they are in the attic.
Flowers in the Attic
Author
Virginia Andrews
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 0NE
The Dollanger family was a very happy and firm family. Father, mother, one daughter ( Cathy ), one son ( Chris ) and a twins ( Carry and Cory ). That evening father has become 36, everybody was dressed very chiquely and everyone waits with anguish for the moment of father's arrival, but he doesn't come. Two policemen come to the Dollanger's house to tell that Mr.Dollanger is perished in a car accident. All the hearts of the family are broken. They had to move, because the bills can't be payed anymore. They want to move in with the parents of Mrs.Dollanger, extremely rich people. Mrs.Dollanger wants to rewin the affection of her father, which she has lost, because of something that happened in the past and he disinherited her of the thing that happened. Her father was going to die, so if she rewins his affection and he makes her heiress again, they'll soon be very rich. She writes a letter and after a lot of letters her parents agree with it. The children don't want to move.
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
When grandmother comes over to bring food the next morning, the children get a list of all the houserules and they have to learn them inside out. Grandmother isn't nice.
CHAPTER FOUR
Cathy, Christopher, Carry and Cory go to the attic, the room where they discover the strange things. They also dis-cover that there have been locked up more children in the attic. After a while they want fresh air from outside, espe-cially Carrie and Cory. In the evening their mother visits them and she looks very bad.
CHAPTER FIVE
Mother asks them how they have spent the day and the twins start complaining and yelling that they want to leave the room. They yell so hard that it drives grandmother crazy and she hits Cory and pulls Carrie up on her hair. Then the children find out how it is possible that mother looks so badly. She has been hitten with a whip and grandmo-ther tells them she does the same with them if they don't listen to the rules.
CHAPTER SIX
Mother tells them why her parents are so strict. ( In the past she has always been the most valuable possession of her father and when she married her half-uncle, they saw this as a great sin ). Mother will follow a secretary-course so that they can move out of the house very quickly.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The children pass the very long and boring days with all sorts of games, then their mother tells them that grandfather has written under the letter, she had sent before they went to this house, that the only thing good about her marriage with her half-uncle has been that they didn't have children. That means that they aren't allowed to leave the room untill grandfather has died, because he may absolutely not know that they are in the house.
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
The holidays almost start. At thanksgiving their mother brings them in secret a spread feast-meal and at Christmas she gives so much presents there isn't a place in the room that's free, but the nicest present she brings them is that her father makes her heiress again. The children have to win grandmother's affection, they made a present for her, but she doesn't take it.
CHAPTER TEN
Cathy and Chris hide in a secret place their mother has showed them. Now they can look at the party what in ho-nour of Christmas is given in the house. They see their mother with a man the whole evening and they wonder what kind of relation they've got with each other. Chris takes the chance to look through the whole house.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
When Chris returns, his mother is in the room and she gives him a smash in the face so mad she is on the fact that Chris has left the room. She regrets it immediately but Chris and Cathy think she has changed. Chris tells Cathy that the man their mother was with the whole evening has kissed her.
CHAPTER TWELVE
They now are a year in the attic. Cathy and Chris slowly begin to come into puberty. They start growing up.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Grandmother has catches Cathy ( naked ) and Chris ( who is staring at Cathy ) in the bathroom. She thinks it's terrible and she wants to punish the children for this. They don't get food untill Cathy has cutted off her hair. Ca-thy doesn't want this and the next morning has grnadmother Cathy's ( when she was sleeping ) doused intar. With difficulty they got it out. For two weeks theu don't get food. They were almost starved to death, they even have in mind to eat mice and Chris let the twins drink of his own blood. Just when they want to escape out of the house, grandmother brings them a basket woth food. Their mother doesn't come to them anymore.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
On a rainy afternoon Chris stares sadly out of the window when grandmother comes in ( they aren't allowed to look out of the window ). She orders him to go away by the window but instead of obey her he starts to abrise her. Grandmother gets so furious that Cathy and Chris are thrashed by the whip.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
One morning there's a mouse sticked in a mouse-trap, with one paw. Cory wants him as a pet, so there is a new mate, Mickey.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
After 2 months mother visits them again. But instead of embrace her, they read her a lecture. Cathy doesn't believe her anymore and she is depressive she wants to commit suïcide. Their mother will not visit them untill they treat her with respect and love.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
After ten days mother comes again. She tells them she is married again and that she is very happy. The children don't like this of course. Cathy and Chris want to escape and they want to take the twins with them. Chris forges the key of the room and he steals money from his mother every day, so that they soon have enough money to live with. (At least for a while).
CHAPTER NINETEEN
When Chris is ill one day, Cathy goes out to steal. When she wants to enter the bedroom of her mother she sees her stepfather sleeping in a chair. She feels very attracted to him and kisses him while he is sleeping. When Chris goes out stealing, suddenly his mother and stepfather come in. He just can escape. Chris and Cathy's longing for passion grows. One evening they have sex with each other. Their mother has discovered that she misses money, but thinks the servant girls have done it.
Cory gets ill. He has to be teated in a hospital. Grandmother and mother take him there, where he dies of pneumo-nia. (That is what mother and grandmother say). Now Chris Cathy and Carrie want to escape as quick as possible.
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
When Chris the evening before they are leaving wants to steal the jewelery of his mother, everything in her be-droom has gone. Mother and stepfather have gone also. He wants to steal from his grandmother but she is still awa-ke, then he dicides to steal from grandfather. (He sleeps in another room). He dicoveres the most horrible thing: Grandfather ha died a year ago and their mother didn't tell them.
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO
They find out, Cory didn't die a natural death, but he was poisoned by the castor powder that always was on the donuts grandmother gave them. They also find out that their mother would lose everything if it appeared that she has children. (This was in the testament). They escape out of the house after three years and five months. They finally can start a new life.
TITLE
Flowers in the attic is the title because the four children made a garden in the attic with paper flowers. That garden later was a real garden with real flowers to the children.
THEME
It shows how mean some people can be and that all for some money. It also shows how people can build a life in one room without any fresh air. How some people can live together in a small room for such a long time, how they are going to love each other.
CHARACTERS
Mother à she loves her children deep in her heart. She does everything fot money. Later she betrays the children.
Chris à the oldest son of the Dollanganger family. He is very clever boy. He likes to read, he wants to be a doctor. In the attic he takes over the roll as a father.
Cathy à the oldest daughter. She doesn't know where to go with her feelings. She loved her father very much. She likes ballet and music.
Carrie à one of the twince. She is affraid and she sees a mother in Cathy.
Cory à the other half of the twince, he is afraid also. He doesn't understand why they are in the attic.
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