Marielle

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**Book:** The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King ======

**Author:** Stephen King
**Pages Read:** 1 to 106

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**Significant Quote:** "As her eyes shifted, following nothing but moonlight and a feeling, she heard a branch crack where she was looking. It was very close, whatever it was, and it was deciding. Either it would come tear her apart, or it would move on... Further off, another branch cracked. Leaves shook in a brief windless gust, and that was furth off still. It was going, but it knew she was here now, in its woods. It would be back." (Page 101- 102). ======

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**Explanation:** This shows that when Trisha wanders off of the path of the Appalachian Trail and is in the woods, there in something out there with her. There is a voice in her head that keeps telling her the thing in the woods wants to kill her and the voice is starting to really scare her into thinking that there is something out there with her, looking for her and waiting for her so that it can kill her. She is so scared that when she starts hearing branches crack and trees sway in the wind she thinks that it is a creature waiting to carry her off or just kill her then and there. ======

**HOTQ:** Do you think that Trisha's hearing things, or do you think that there's really something in the woods with her? Why?


 * Answer to HOTQ:** I think that Trisha is imaging that something is out there with her. I think this because Trisha hasn't seen anyone in over 10 hours at this point, and she is desperate for contact with someone (or something as the case may be). Also, throughout these 10 hours, she has had very little to drink, and against her better judgement ever drank some river water. Because she did this, Trisha could simply be dehydrated and imagining or hearing things.


 * Connection:** I can connect to how scared Trisha was in this section. I can connect to her because whenever I go camping with my family or friends, I am always afraid when the sun sets. The idea of being alone in the woods during the day, let alone at night terrifies me. Also, when I'm in a tent trying to fall asleep, it's as if every snap of a twig or gust of wind alerts me to a possible predator that could be right outside of the tent. Trisha had no tent, so I feel very empathetic.