Explanation of the title
of the book:
The title fits the book well. Lauren read a site of lost or missing children. She is adopted and now thinks her real parents are looking for her. After 14 years of silence guardian parents she’s persistent to find her biological parents.
Explanation of the climax and anti-climax:
There are to obvious climaxes, these are the parts:
- When Lauren and Jam are kidnapped by Sonia (2 times).
- When the Mattews are in judgement for buying Lauren from Sonia
Explanation about the main theme:
the main theme in the novel are family relations. Lauren is searching for her biological parents in the hole story. But it is also about love and hate relations. Jam becomes her boyfriend and Sonia kidnapped them.
A short account about he beginning and the end of the novel:
Lauren is doing a exercise for school about here life, called: “Who am I? “. Because of that she is going to try to find something about here biological parents. Here adoptive parents won’t tell here anything because she’s to young in there opinion. Lauren find out a website about missing children. Then she find a girl who called Martha Lauren Purditt. Here photo is quite similar to Laurens child pictures. so she’s going to search for here, only one other person knows about here plan. That’s Jam. He helps her. …
… in they end of the story they find out who are Laurens real parents and who token here away from them when she was 3 years old. Sonia Holtwood, is trying to kill Jam and Lauren, so she won’t go to jail. But Jam rescued Lauren. And at they and of the story Sonia is still arrested. Laurens biological parents invite her real parents so they can discus where Lauren is going to live. Then she make the decision that she want to live with bought. In the holidays she is in the USA by her biological parents and she goes to school in the U.K together with Jam as her boyfriend.
Main Character(s)
The main character is Lauren Matthews (14) (Martha-Lauren Purditt)
The adoptive daughter of the Matthews and the biological daughter of Sam and Annie Purditt. The biological sister of Shelby Annabelle Purditt (Shelbs) and Madison Gloria Annabelle Purditt (Madi). Lauren was taken from her parents at the age of three. She was on the beach with Annie playing hide-and-seek with a red bucket the day she went missing. Later on in the book she has flashbacks of that day.
Also important character is Jam (15), Laurens best friend. Jam is travelling with Lauren to find her biological parents. Everybody thing that they are a couple but in the beginning of the story they just friends but in thy and of the story Jim asked Lauren to be his girlfriend. His mother is Carla she don’t have much time for Jam because of her work.
Other characters are:
Shelby Purditt (13). They often call her Shelbs. Lauren and Shelby do not get on.
Madison Purditt (6). Her nickname is Madi. Lauren's favorite younger sister. Madi is physically and emotionally bullied by Shelby.
Sam and Annie Purditt. Lauren's birth parents in America. Her mother Annie is tall with black hair and blue eyes.
Sonia Holtwood (Marcia Burns)
The kidnapper who took Lauren at the age of 3 at LongMileBeach where she was playing hide-and-seek with her mother. Sonia later sold her to the Matthews. Sonia changes her appearance all the time; she has many different looks. Sonia kidnapped Lauren 3 times. Once with Jam and Once with Madi.
The Mattews, Laurens adoptive parents in the U.K
Rory, the son of the Mattews.
Summary:
Part One: Finding Martha
Lauren is doing an exercise for homework entitled Who Am I?, in which she has to write about her personality and her life. Eager to find out about her past, Lauren goes on Missing-Children.com, and finds an American girl of her age named Martha Lauren Purditt, who went missing less than two months before Lauren was adopted.
After comparing the photograph of Martha with a photograph of Lauren as a toddler, Lauren finds that she and Martha look alike. Lauren's friend James 'Jam' Caldwell comes round, and compares Lauren's face to the age-progressed photograph of Martha. They find that the two girls look alike. Lauren thinks she may be Martha, and finds out information about her adoption is in her adoptive mother's diaries. Whilst Lauren's mother is visiting Jam's mother Carla, Lauren finds her mother's diaries in the attic, and discovers she was adopted from Marchfield Adoption Agency in Vermont in the USA.
After persuading her family to go on a holiday to a theme park in America, the family go to America (leaving Lauren's adoptive father behind, and taking Jam in his place). While Lauren's mother and Rory are waiting to change planes, Lauren and Jam sneak off and get a plane to Burlington.
Once the plane lands, Lauren and Jam get a bus to Marchfield, where Lauren has a meeting with Taylor Tarsen, the owner of the agency. He refuses to show Lauren her adoption file, but when Lauren mentions Sonia Holtwood, a woman from her mother's diaries, Taylor tells Lauren she was looked after by Sonia before her adoption, and gives her 0 so she and Jam can stay in a motel. Jam informs Lauren that he found out where Lauren's adoption file is, and the two stay in a motel for the night.
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