Title: “The Westing Game”
Author: Ellen Raskin
Report by: Ethan Keating
Warning! Contains Spoilers!
Genre: Mystery
Plot Summary:
Sunset Towers is a 5 stories tall apartment building with 6 apartments. The people in each apartment were specially chosen to get each apartment. They were chosen because they were heirs to Mr. Westing a wealthy man who disappeared after a car accident. Finally on the night of Halloween Turtle, one of the tenants, went into the Westing House on a dare and found the dead body of Sam Westing. At his funeral in his will he declared to have not died of natural causes and that one of the heirs had killed him. He then went one to explain that there was to be a game. The heirs were divided into pairs each pair got $10,000 …show more content…
Westing was a good man, Ed Plum(the lawyer), Mother, Otis Amber(one of the heirs), and Crow. The next part of the will was that all answers were wrong. The lawyer then left and locked all the heirs in one room to figure it out all pairs were unjoined and it became a free for all. They all put their clues together and it formed the song America The Beautiful all except for 4 words which made Berthe Erica Crow, one of the heirs. After all of the commotion Sandy, the doorman, started choking and died. Crow then said that she was the winner and gave the winnings to Otis and Angela, the bride to …show more content…
I think it is Identity because it is all about trying to find out who killed Sam Westing, who Sam Westing is, and also the tenant discovering their own identities
Mood:
The mood of “The Westing Game” is suspenseful because there is a murderer, a thief, and a bomber.
Tone:
The tone of “The Westing Game” is accusational because it is all about the heirs accusing the other heirs of murder, theft, bombing, and other things.
Irony:
It is ironic that Sydelle went around on crutches to get attention and then ended up actually needing them because she broke her ankle.
Imagery:
Some imagery was that there was a chess game going on throughout the entire book and a lot of the characters thought of themselves as pawns.
Symbolism:
Smoke symbolizes the transition of matter into spirit. Which means that the symbolism of the smoke coming out of the Westinghouse chimney symbolised that everyone thought that Sam Westing was dead.
Foreshadowing:
It was foreshadowing when it said “The big problems were yet to come”
Metaphor:
The Westing Game is a chess game, with pawns, rules, and sacrificing queens.
Author: Ellen Raskin
Report by: Ethan Keating
Warning! Contains Spoilers!
Genre: Mystery
Plot Summary:
Sunset Towers is a 5 stories tall apartment building with 6 apartments. The people in each apartment were specially chosen to get each apartment. They were chosen because they were heirs to Mr. Westing a wealthy man who disappeared after a car accident. Finally on the night of Halloween Turtle, one of the tenants, went into the Westing House on a dare and found the dead body of Sam Westing. At his funeral in his will he declared to have not died of natural causes and that one of the heirs had killed him. He then went one to explain that there was to be a game. The heirs were divided into pairs each pair got $10,000 …show more content…
Westing was a good man, Ed Plum(the lawyer), Mother, Otis Amber(one of the heirs), and Crow. The next part of the will was that all answers were wrong. The lawyer then left and locked all the heirs in one room to figure it out all pairs were unjoined and it became a free for all. They all put their clues together and it formed the song America The Beautiful all except for 4 words which made Berthe Erica Crow, one of the heirs. After all of the commotion Sandy, the doorman, started choking and died. Crow then said that she was the winner and gave the winnings to Otis and Angela, the bride to …show more content…
I think it is Identity because it is all about trying to find out who killed Sam Westing, who Sam Westing is, and also the tenant discovering their own identities
Mood:
The mood of “The Westing Game” is suspenseful because there is a murderer, a thief, and a bomber.
Tone:
The tone of “The Westing Game” is accusational because it is all about the heirs accusing the other heirs of murder, theft, bombing, and other things.
Irony:
It is ironic that Sydelle went around on crutches to get attention and then ended up actually needing them because she broke her ankle.
Imagery:
Some imagery was that there was a chess game going on throughout the entire book and a lot of the characters thought of themselves as pawns.
Symbolism:
Smoke symbolizes the transition of matter into spirit. Which means that the symbolism of the smoke coming out of the Westinghouse chimney symbolised that everyone thought that Sam Westing was dead.
Foreshadowing:
It was foreshadowing when it said “The big problems were yet to come”
Metaphor:
The Westing Game is a chess game, with pawns, rules, and sacrificing queens.