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Martin Lo

Chapter 1 Introduces narrator Eric, Digg, and his Father to the readers. Confusion at the beginning E.g. “Sacrifice Poles”, “Factory” 1st person narrator: 16 years old, at home school In with Eric. Create tension: Killed three people Diggs is a police (minor character) Father: Angus studied bio-chemistry Chapter 2 Narrator: kills rabbits but not using guns; kicks the corpse into the water Revenge of touching the narrator’s rabbits Description of how he killed his cousin Blythe Cauldhame Re-appear of Sacrifice Poles Feminism: Symbol of water Create tension: Killed three Chapter 3 Beginning: Hates women. Identity of Narrator: both qualities of math and female “shaves cleanly, trimmed nails” “combat jacket, knives” THe Bunker is like a temple on the island that the narrator lives in. (many skulls of animals) used to torture the wasp? Review identity: Frank L. Cauldhame “Frank’ll get you” - suggests that Frank is a monster to the villagers Frank: drunk a lot, crazy, cruel, experienced in weapons Chapter 4 Description of how he killed Paul - hit a bomb Dinner at home with Mrs. Clamp Drunk with Jamie and a girl Runs away from Jamie to go to toilet Internal conflict: guilty Catapult at his foot - masochist Frank is smart - understand the phenomenon of a mirage Chapter 5 Obsession - killed Esmerelda Esmerelda was blown away Feign his innocence, Diggs believed in him Selfish: Kite is Frank’s creation, he is sorry for the Kite, but not Esmeralda Eric is killing dogs Chapter 6 Flashback of Frank’s accident Give birth to Paul, the old Old Saul bit off Frank’s penis Hates Paul, get rid of Paul

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Chapter 7 Frank and Jamie: discuss about politics, arguing politics is like nature , survival of the fittest Chapter 8 Introduce the Wasp Factory in this chapter It is a clock that is taken from a dump A wasp is placed into the clock, when the wasp craws to the number, it predicts the death of the targeted person Death by fire, death by venom, death by drowning Next target: Eric Locked room: secretive Chapter 9 Frank and Eric relationship: more like love as a couple Eric is peculiar: accident in hospital when he was taking care of disabled babies, discovered one baby has died and his brain is being eaten by maggots. Eric becomes traumatized, quits school associates women with animal Chapter 10 Frank thinks his father allows Eric to dress like anything he wants A frog drops on the ground - nature is cruel Frank sees a half burnt dog running - Eric is near Chapter 11 Frank is persuaded to get out of the house - because his Father told him that Eric is caught Father failed to catch Eric Frank takes the key (the locked room) Frank discovers a tampon, male hormones Ask for the truth Set fire to the sheep, tries to burn and destroy the house Confusion - whose penis? Father’s? his? Chapter 12 Frank is a result of his Father’s experiment Was injected with hormones, turned into a female Everything is a lie Frank goes back to the Bunker and sees Eric sleeping Eric is lying Frank is enlightened, reflecting on his past actions