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"There is the main character in the book who is female, she remains nameless throughout the book. She lives in the Mental hospital after her family is continually pestered by the media because her father is the member of a group that continues to deny any input to the fraud that they have commited. This name-less girl is living in the mental hospital, she refuses to talk to the psycological counsellor in "group". She would probably go home if she had anywhere to go. "
georgia marett, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 11-14
Brain/Body disability? - mental illness

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - journalist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a lot
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards - written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog - little dialog
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