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Plot Summary of Hush, It's a Game
"A young girl (around age 5) is caught up in a murder in which a man kills her babysitter without knowing the girl is in the house. She ends up being locked in the kitchen for days, and it is up to everyone outside the building to figure out why there's a little girl waving above from the window."
Shannon, Resident Scholar

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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets: - escape/rescue from kidnappers
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a little
Ethnicity/Race - White/American

Main Adversary
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist - revenge
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Dumb

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 1
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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