Ian MacDonald

The Boxes

William Sleator

Fantasy

85

1. In my book right now Annie's uncle, Marco, just left. He left Annie with two boxes. She is very curious to find out what is inside the box but she is instructed not to open them under any circumstances. She is forced to separate them, so one has to stay in her room and the other has to go to the basement. There is one problem though. A company is trying to get them to move out of their home and if that happens she won't be able to hide the boxes anymore.

2. I like this book a lot because it keeps you guessing on what is inside the box. I liked how right at the beginning she introduced the boxes so you automatically got sucked in.  There is only one problem though and that is that it can get a little slow at points. I think that the action will start to pick up very soon.

3. The theme that I have seen so far in the book is self control. You see this a lot when Annie wants to look inside the box. You also see it when Annie's aunt, Ruth, is very mean and obnoxious. Annie controls herself and holds her tongue.

4.My favorite character is Uncle Marco. I like him because he is very energetic. He is sort of a mystery because he goes on long trips and comes back with weird stuff. I also like how he is very nice to Annie and how he doesn't like Aunt Ruth.

5. My least favorite character is obviously Aunt Ruth. She is very annoying. She is very mean to Annie, and if Annie does something wrong she makes Annie feel very guilty. She is very stubborn, the only thing that that is good for in the book is to not let the company buy the house and destroy it. Aunt Ruth is just an all around terrible person.

6. Next I predict that Annie won't be able to control herself and she will have to look inside the box. I think that something terrible will happen when she does, or I think that Aunt Ruth will find the boxes and she will throw them out and Annie will have to go find them.