Heist Society Analysis

The Theme Within Heist Society The novel I choose to read during the third quarter was “Heist Society” by Ally Carter. It is a very intriguing fictional book that focuses on a “family” of the most elite group of con artist in the twenty-first century. While the main focus of this novel may be on this family of con artist, the plot revolves around the youngest female member, Kat. Kat is a teenage girl who recently tried to escape from her family's mischievous ways by attending Colgan Boarding School. However, this escape is impermanent when Kat is framed for damaging the headmaster’s car, which ultimately gets her expelled. When Kat attempts to return to her old life she finds that her father is being falsely accused of stealing Arturo …show more content…
This largely comes to play near the end of the novel when Kat and her team are organizing a scheme to retrieve Arturo's paintings. “‘Tell me, Mr. . . . Worthington,’ Hale said, pointing at a very nice Manet, ‘what kind of assurance do I have that my painting wouldn’t be damaged in any way?’”(90) This quote comes from a section of the novel where Hale is pretending to be a rich billionaire who wants to put his family’s prized Monet on display in the Henley Museum to gain information on the Henley museums security system. This shows the theme because to Me. Worthington Hale might have been a high end client, but in actuality he was just a common con artist. Halfway through the novel a new character, Nick, is added to the plot and the team. Hale had suspicions about Nick from the very beginning, but it was not until the very end that his true identity and motive was revealed to Kat. “‘How long has your mom been leading the investigation of my dad, Nick?’ He looked down at the ground and admitted, ‘A while.’”(254) This quote is from when Kat finally realizes that Nick was the son of the interpol officer that had recently been following and investigating her father. Nick had deceived Kat to catch her father and was awfully good at doing so, well that is until she caught him and left him in a locked down …show more content…
In the novel Heist Society by Ally Carter the author is strenuously stressing that things things are always misleading. Furthermore, Carter is stressing that this concept is merely a part of life. Carter wants her readers to learn that if we simply stop and focus on a situation more clearly it will lessen the amount of times we are foolishly mislead. Nevertheless, if this is taken into action there will consistently be few positions we find ourselves in that could not of been