Theme Of Vanishing Act By John Feinstein

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1. One theme that is presented in the novel, Vanishing Act by John Feinstein is courage. In the story Symanova was kidnapped while she was walking to a match against Joanne Walsh. After she was kidnapped the main character Susan and Stevie investigate who kidnapped her. They broke rules and lied about many things to try and find out more about the kidnapping. On page 119 Susan and Stevie went undercover as Evelyn Rubin’s siblings. Stevie said he was a 13 year old and Susan acted like she was 16. In the end of the book, Susan and Stevie found out who was behind the kidnapping. They were a big part of the investigation.

2. One protagonist in the story was Susan. She is a protagonist because she helped find out who was in on the kidnapping. She
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One literary element was a simile on page 10. It states, “He simply turned on the meter and began rocketing up Eighth Avenue, dodging between cars as if he was on a NASCAR track.” The author used this element in the novel because he wanted to show how recklessly the driver was driving. Even though it says, “as though he was on NASCAR track” he isn’t actually on a track, the author is just trying to have the reader picture the type of driver he was. This impacted the setting because now the reader can imagine someone driving on a NASCAR track and by the author using that simile the reader can now have an idea of what kind of driver there …show more content…
On page 170 it says “Stevie wanted to stay up and talk, but he was out on his feet.” Then, on page 171 it states, “He set the alarm for eight o’clock and was asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow. About five minutes later, or so it seemed, the alarm was going off.” This is foreshadowing because it talked about Stevie being very tired and then it showed him going to sleep very quickly. The author used this element to let the reader know how tired Stevie really was. He wanted to give detail so it wouldn’t just be a simple thing saying, “he was tired.” This element impacts the character because it shows that Stevie isn’t the type of person to stay up late. The author wanted the reader to know that Stevie was very tired. The last literary element was dialect. On page 12, Stevie says, “he had almost forgotten about just how Southern she could sound.” The author used dialect in the story to have readers have an idea about how Susan talks. If the author didn’t used this description, then readers wouldn’t have known how she talked. This impacted the character because it added more detail and knowledge of Susan. It also adds more character to Susan so readers will know that she doesn’t talk like an

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