Summary Of Writing On The Wall By Wendy Lichtman

The Writing on the Wall written by Wendy Lichtman was published in 2008. This story occurs during the school day in this present time period. The story is told in first-person participant as told by Tess. There are six chief characters. They are Tess, smart, good at catching clues, and very observant; Damien, likes helping with the mystery, friends with Tess, and nice; Sammy, Tess’s good friend, and dramatic; Marcus, always tries to be the center of attention, mean; Lucia, shy, nice, new student; Richard, Tess’s enemy, rude, obnoxious. The story begins telling you that there is a murderer in Tess’s city. Tess and her friends Sammy and Miranda were trying to figure out who the murderer was by trying to find patterns. The murderer would leave clues or signs of graffiti on a wall by the school and whenever Tess saw the random numbers written, she would try to figure out what they meant. Tess can not figure out what the murderer means by all of the clues the murderer leaves on the wall. Tess goes to her grandfather because he used to work as a printer and …show more content…
I felt interested when I found out there was a killer in the book. When the fire happened I felt scared because I did not know if the killer would actually try to hurt someone. I thought the killer was Mr. Wright when Tess was asking him questions and he told her to go away and he got frustrated. I did not learn anything new in this book. I was also made more aware of the human nature when Tess was looking to find the graffiti artist because I learned how a person would act in a situation like this. The characters in the story seemed unbelievable. I could not relate to them because I have never been in a situation like this or had to act in a way related to this. I especially liked Tess because she was good at math and picked up all of her clues very well. This story had a good theme because it kept you intrigued beause there was always new things going on in the