Character Analysis: Janie

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1. Who is the main character/protagonist? Describe her.
The main character is Janie Johnson. Janie is 15 years old, she is a freshman. Janie feels younger than all of her friends because she thinks she isn’t as pretty as them. Janie has very red and curly hair. Janie seems to be popular at school. Janie is relatively close with her parents. Janie is also lactose intolerant. Some of Janie’s closest friends are: Reeve, Sarah-Charlotte, Adair, and Jason. Janie is also very smart and outgoing. Janie moved to her neighborhood in Connecticut 12 year ago.

2. Who are Janie’s best friends? Who is Reeve Shields? Describe him. How does Janie know him?
Janie’s best friends are Sarah-Charlotte and Adair. Reeve is Janie’s next door neighbor. Reeve
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She cuts out the milk carton and sticks it in her notebook. Janie started asking her parents if she could see her birth certificate. Her mother denied every time, and said she was too busy. One day, Janie went into the attic to find out more information about this. Janie thinks this can’t be true. She think that her parents would never do something like that.

6. What does Janie find in the attic? Who is Hannah? What do her parents tell her about Hannah?
Janie finds a big trunk of stuff. Janie saw the exact dress in the picture on the milk carton all folded up. She keeps looking through the trunk and finds all this little kid art work. She knows it’s not hers. She looks at all the name on the artwork. All of it says “Hannah.” Janie is wondering who the heck Hannah is? Is Hannah her sister? Is Janie’s real name Hannah? Janie asks her parents who Hannah is and they tell her disappointedly. Mr. & Mrs. Johnson tell her that Hannah is their daughter.
Hannah left to be in a cult many years ago. The Johnsons stopped communicating with Hannah a long time ago. Mr. & Mrs. Johnson tell Janie that she is actually their granddaughter and that her biological mom is Hannah. Janie asks why the last name is different on the milk carton and they say that they moved and changed their name because they think the cult is after

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