How to Disappear is a fiction novel written by Ann Redisch Stampler. The plot line includes two main characters and many, many side characters. Nicolette Holland is your average popular teenage girl. She has beautiful blond hair, loves cheerleading, all the boys want to date her, and all the girls want to be her. After her mom died, she moved in with her wealthy stepdad, Steve. Jack Manx is our second main character. He is an amazing athlete and has perfect grades. But he has one major flaw: his last name. His father is a famous hitman and his older brother, Don, is in prison for armed assault. Everyone knows his last name because of his father’s precarious actions. Unfortunately, having a last name associated with brutal murders does not bring
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Nicolette is living under a different identity, hiding from her friends, family and past. Jack Manx has to do every single thing his imprisoned brother asks of him or else, his mom will suffer the consequences. Ann Redisch Stampler gives us the basic idea of what it would be like to lose all of your freedom. She says, “It felt like I’d been gutted by a dull knife, every idea of who I was and where I fit into the world pouring out of me like a deer’s innards when it gets cut open in hunting season.” (Stampler 14). By the end of the novel, both of the characters have some freedom back, but not all of it. Both Jack and Nicolette are fine with not having all of their freedom back, as long as they are safe and no longer running from the inevitable. At the end of the book, Ann Redisch Stampler shows us how deeply Nicolette longs for her old freedom and life back by saying, “I say, ‘I’ll do whatever you say, I just want my old life back.” (Stampler 363). Jack has a different viewpoint of freedom by the end of this novel because of the places he has been and the things he has seen. (**SPOILERS**) After Nicolette’s plan blows up in Jack’s face, he undergoes extreme police questioning and even spends a little time in jail. Ann Redisch Stampler expresses his new viewpoint of freedom by saying, “She reaches into her briefcase for a yellow legal
Nicolette is living under a different identity, hiding from her friends, family and past. Jack Manx has to do every single thing his imprisoned brother asks of him or else, his mom will suffer the consequences. Ann Redisch Stampler gives us the basic idea of what it would be like to lose all of your freedom. She says, “It felt like I’d been gutted by a dull knife, every idea of who I was and where I fit into the world pouring out of me like a deer’s innards when it gets cut open in hunting season.” (Stampler 14). By the end of the novel, both of the characters have some freedom back, but not all of it. Both Jack and Nicolette are fine with not having all of their freedom back, as long as they are safe and no longer running from the inevitable. At the end of the book, Ann Redisch Stampler shows us how deeply Nicolette longs for her old freedom and life back by saying, “I say, ‘I’ll do whatever you say, I just want my old life back.” (Stampler 363). Jack has a different viewpoint of freedom by the end of this novel because of the places he has been and the things he has seen. (**SPOILERS**) After Nicolette’s plan blows up in Jack’s face, he undergoes extreme police questioning and even spends a little time in jail. Ann Redisch Stampler expresses his new viewpoint of freedom by saying, “She reaches into her briefcase for a yellow legal