Nora To The Black Hand Book Report

What would you do if your dad ended up being someone other than who you grew up to know as your dad? In silence Nora is in this situation. Her mom was forced to marry another guy to keep Nora save from the Nephils. Nora had no idea about this and thought that the guy Nora’s mom had to marry was her birth father. When Nora finds out that Marcie Millar’s father is her birth father she is devastated. In this journal I will be looking for three items that are crucial to the story. The first item that is important in my story is the ring of the Black Hand. It is what lead Nora to the Black Hand, which in the second book of the series crescendo, Nora was looking for the Black Hand the whole book. The Black Hand gives out these rings to every person he has every taken power of. It’s his way of showing or marking his territories. But that’s not the only way he marks it territories, he actually stamps his symbol into their skin. The Black Hand’s symbol is two hands folded together. This object plays an important roll in the book silence because in this book Nora’s birth father, Hank Millar is …show more content…
In all of the books in this series Nora doesn’t have a car. Nora is 16 but her mom had to sell her car in order to pay for the house and food. Nora is trying to get a car by working in a restaurant, but in the mean time Vee is the person who drives Nora around. There are sometimes if Vee is going to be Rixon, a fallen angel, she will let Nora just use it. This object is important because it is what Nora uses to go around and find out hints about what the Black Hand is up to and what his plans are. Nora and Vee always make plans before: “Yo, she answered a moment later. I have tickets 2 serpentine. Wanna? Serpen-wha??? Friend of the family’s new band, I explained. Opening gig is tonight. Pick u up in 20” (Fitzpatrick 352). This shows that Nora and Vee are very nonchalant about how their plans came to