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| Plot Summary of Backpack |
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"This is an entertaining British formula of romance, travel and mystery. Tansy is a small minded, trendy Londoner who plans for about six months, a long backpacking trip with her boyfriend. Tansy refuses to say they are 'backpackers' because she states this puts a label on her. This trip is precipitated by the death of her alcoholic mother and her inability to deal with her life after this death. Her long-time boyfriend, Tom, plans most of the holiday to sites he would like to see only to tell her a few days before she leaves that he had cancelled his ticket and would not be going. Furious, Tansy leaves without saying goodbye and arrives in Vietnam. She is immediately sent into culture shock. The noise, the odors, and just getting across the street are all obstacles to her. Tansy just wants to get through the holiday to be able to say she did it now. She is drinking heavily and meeting other 'backpackers' - she prejudges all of them and hilariously decides whether they have fashion-sense, want to have sex with her, are arrogant, etc. Tansy does this with the natives, also, which gives one a good frame of her mind.
The reader is privy to the e-mail communications to and from her friends and family. They all know her itinerary and it seems someone is killing blonde Londoners in their 20s. This killer is also leaving ordinary objects with the dead women. Tansy is a blonde Londoner in her 20s and the killer almost seems to be following her route. Is she paranoid or is she being stalked?
When Tansy meets up with Max, a kind guy she had met on her first day on the road, about a month later, they began a friendship/relationship that Tansy assumes is a holiday fling. She doesn't mind sticking with him either because of the murders taking place.
But by the end of the book, the reader has been treated to humor, a bit of scenic traveling, a "who done it" and some romance. "
Jody T. Bixby, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- being hunted by killer/stalker
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- mother
Exploring into the wild
Yes
kind of story
- surviving natural elements
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- deluded
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
- India
Island?
Yes
Island:
- on vacation
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- written like a journal/diary/letters
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