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Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin is a book that I am unable to put down. P.A.C.T.S is all through this book, I am here to go through them, tell you about them, connect them to the quest to be free and tell what I think about them. The setting- of this story takes place nearby Mississippi. The main character lives, by herself, at “Halsett Academy” (p.1). She lives by herself due to her mother, Skye, “(dying) on a mysterious plane crash” (p.3). The story also takes place at her chemistry teacher’s house. Werlin provides many settings at which the main character may stay at for a while. The plot of the story well done, and I really enjoyed it! Sixteen-year-old Marnie Skyedottir is totally “addicted to the computer game Paliopolis, (where in) the disguise (of the) Sorceress Llewellyne” (p.2) she competes with the clever Elf to escape from the dungeons and evade the blind Rubble-Eater. Paliopolis feels safe and free to Marnie, not like real life, where she is “flunking out at her exclusive boarding school” (p.5). Also, her famous mother Skye is dead, and her guardian, Max, stubbornly refuses to let her free to have the millions of dollars she will inherit at the age of twenty-one. Marnie thinks that “she should be able to make these judgements and that it would be years until she would be able to be free” (p35). Skye, a mysterious gospel singer who came from nowhere to become the founder of a new-religion, “has taught (her daughter) well, to be free from thoughts of (other members of the community) that prejudgments (about her)” (p.6). When the Elf, who turns out to be a senior at a nearby school, manages to “(figures) out who (Marnie) really is and where (she) lives” (p.46), she fears.
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