![]() ![]() Jack McEvoy and Rachel Walling reunited in The Scarecrow and appeared to be in a good relationship at the end. Why are so many newspapers shutting down or going bankrupt? What is the future of the news industry? And what will our communities miss if local daily newspapers are gone?ģ. The layoffs at the Los Angeles Times in this novel are a fictional example of what is really happening in the newspaper industry today. Did you like Jack as a protagonist? Could you relate to him or to his career issues?Ģ. However, at the start of The Scarecrow, 12 years after The Poet, he is divorced and seemed to be at the end of his career as a journalist. ![]() He wrote a bestselling book about that story, was featured on TV shows, and was hired at a premier newspaper. Jack McEvoy had been flying high for a while, after The Poet case. Do not read it if you have not read the book.ġ. ![]() SPOILER WARNING! This guide does address the entire book. Print these questions and use them to lead a discussion about The Scarecrow. Home » The Scarecrow (2009) » The Scarecrow Reading Guide ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her idea developed into a fully fledged series after she began writing the sassy main character, Claire. Using a classic episode of Doctor Who as inspiration for her 1700’s Scottish setting, Gabaldon had originally planned to write a historical novel only for practice. This creates a unique listening experience that combines fantasy, historical fiction, romance, adventure, and science fiction.ĭiana Gabaldon’s adventures capture a heroine caught between two worlds - and torn between two men. Her versatile narration shifts easily between time periods and characters, capturing the feel of each scene in her voice. Narrator Davina Porter is practically synonymous with Outlander. Listen as Claire not only struggles through life in the past, but also through her fraught relationships with her husband and her savior. But then, there’s Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior who continues to save her as dangerous events, from the Jacobite Rising to the American Revolution, bring them together. ![]() Disoriented and stranded in the past as an outsider, Claire vows to find a way to return to her life in the present. In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall is enjoying a holiday with her husband in the Scottish Highlands, until she passes through a mysterious portal and finds herself back in the thick of war - in 1743. In the outstanding Outlander series, a 20th-century time traveler is caught up in events of the 18th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what should’ve been a simple moment unleashes a flood of confusing emotions and urges that neither man is prepared to address. Nick knows all of Kelly’s quirks and caprices, so the kiss was a low-risk move on his part. He’s very surprised, though, when Nick humors his moment of curiosity and kisses him. Nor is he surprised when Nick travels home with him to help him get back on his feet-after all, years on the same Marine Force Recon team bonded the men in ways that only bleeding for a brother can. He’s not surprised when fellow Sidewinder Nick O’Flaherty stays with him in New Orleans. Shock & Awe (Sidewinder #1) After barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has to suffer through a month of recovery before he can return home to Colorado. ![]() ![]() ![]() (may contain spoilers - click on expand to read)Ĭolonel Lucius Protheroe is wealthy, active in the church and a magistrate. ![]() The vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement respectively, who made their first appearance in this novel, continue to show up in Miss Marple stories: notably, in The Body in the Library (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington (1957) So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detective abilities. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. ![]() Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. 5.4 Agatha Christie's Marple (ITV series).5.1 The Murder at the Vicarage (1949 play). ![]() ![]() ![]() This is true not only when it comes to the reasons that authors write, but readers experience a similar sense of weaving with Westerfeld’s series. One story inspired by another one story nests within another. ![]() At the beginning of the novel, where an epigraph might appear, is a note from the author, explaining that Uglies was shaped by a series of email exchanges between Scott Westerfeld and author Ted Chiang about his story “Liking What You See: A Documentary”.Īt the end of Ted Chiang’s collection Stories of Your Life, the author explains that he was inspired by a study conducted by psychologists, who “left” a college application in an airport and discovered that people were more likely to mail in the “forgotten” application if the photo included was of an attractive person. ![]() |