FINAL PROJECT
Extensive Reading
Novel Review: An Ice Cold Grave
Created by:
FOTJI FAZERAH SHATILLA
15744
K4-2010
English Department
Language and Art Faculty
Padang State University
2012
BAB I
INTRODUCTION
Can
you imagine that you can see dead people? Perhaps you will feel that you are
really afraid of it because of only you can see that people, or maybe you
cannot enjoy your life in normally and happiness. That case usually called as
people that have sixth sense. Someone who have sixth sense typically cannot
show it to others, because she does not want people about knows about her
supernatural power.
You
do not know that sixth sense can be used in good way, in bad way, or someone
who had it just keep it by herself. Generally, people that have a sixth sense
are keeping it herself. Unfortunately, Harper Cornelly in the novel “An Ice
Cold Grave” is not only using in good way but also keep that secret. How can
she does it, and could keep it from others.
One
more question that debated in your mind is how Harper Cornelly had a sixth
sense. Each of chapter will explain why it could happen to her and how was her daily
life. Thus, the reviewed of the novel “An Ice Cold Grave” will answer your
question about it.
BAB
II
REVIEW
The characters who told
in this story are:
1. Harper
Cornelly
2. Tolliver
Lang
3. Twyla
Cotton
4. Tom
Almand
5. Chuck
Almand
6. Rob
Tidmarsh
7. Xylda
Bernado
8. Manfred
Bernado
9. The
Supervising Agent: Pell Klavin
10. Special
Agent: Max Stuart
11. Dr.
Thomason
12. Manfred
Bernado
13. Deputies
1: Dave
14. Deputies
2: Harry
Herper
Cornelly and her step brother, Tolliver, went to South Carolina at the end of
January. It approved on page 1:
“But
I had some jobs in the East, so here I was, driving trough South Carolina with my sort-of brother Tolliver in the
passenger seat.”
In fact, Harper’s mother was married
by Tolliver’s father. Later on, her mother passed away and Tolliver’s father
was somewhere after gotten out of jail previous year. Harper’s real father was
still in white-collar crimes.
Harper was called to solve the case
about ghost activity of a couple of house in Charleston. They thought that
there were any bodies in the walls or flooring. Clearly, those bodies were
three babies in the narrow back yard. It was quite clear, and Harper could not
name the cause of the death. This was argued on page 2:
“The
answer was clear: no. But there were bodies in the narrow back yard. There were
three of them, all babies. I didn’t know what that meant. They’d died so soon
after birth that they hadn’t had much conscious for me to tap into, so I hadn’t
been able to name the cause of the death, which is usually quite clear. But the
Charleston homeowners had been thrilled with the result, especially after an
archeologist dug up the mugger remains the tiny bodies. They would dine out on
the dead babies for the next decade. They’d handed me a check without
hesitation.”
As a fact, Harper and Tolliver were spending their
time on the road since they graduated from senior high school. They saved the
money from that job to buy a house around Dallas closed to their aunt’s house.
Actually, when Harper was fifteen was struck by a
bolt of lightning in Texarkana. Then, she had a spiderweb of the red on part of
her body and her right leg has period of weaknesses. Sometime her right hand
was shaking, had headache, could saw and found dead people.
Usually, Harper and Cornelly booked one room for
them because they had no enough money. When she was in the motel in Dorraville
she saw a mother with her three children there, but she pretended did not see
them.
Harper was called by the sheriff of
Knott Country, Sandra Rockwell in her office. This sheriff told a case and want
Harper could solve it. It was about missing boys in that country and their
bodies could not find. Sandra Rockwell argued that those boys were buried in
somewhere.
It
could see in page 11-12:
“She
seemed to relax at my frankness. “Okay, then, cards on the table,” She took a
deep breath. “ For the past five years, boys have been going missing in this
country. It’s up to six boys now. When I say ‘boys’, I mean in the fourteen- to
eighteen-year-old range. Now, kids that ages are prone to runaways, we’d be
okay with that, as okay as you can be.”
We
nodded.
“But these
particular boys, it’s just no one can believe they would runaway. And in this
time, surely some hunters or bird watcher or hiker would have found a body or
two if they killed themselves or met with some accident in the wood”.
They are in different school and
missing two in the fall, three in the spring, and one in the summer, but none
in the winter maybe it cause of the condition of the weather. Sandra Rockwell
guessed that they were killed by the same person and then buried them
somewhere.
After that, Tolliver asked about the
location of a lake or a river around there. It caused of Harper ever solve the
case that missing people were found in the river. Then, Sandra Rockwell took a map and
explained that some of the victim’s thing where found. The oldest boy is Jeff
McGraw, sixteen years old. His grandmother, Twyla Cotton, spent much money to
look for him. She said that Jeff never run away like the police said, he just
had no reason to go. Jeff’s cell phone was found on the Madison road. Now, she
hopefully could see him again, even just scattered bones.
Twyla
Cotton drove her Cardillac, Harper and Tolliver sat on the passenger seat. They
went to each place to identify Jeff where is. It started to his school, town
landmark, and followed Harper instinct to the local cemetery, the freshest
grave.
Harper
closed her eyes and tried to find the victims and walked into the yard of the
old house. Dead people around there gave signal to her. She tried to speak,
choked and gasped. Then Harper was counting and said eight. It approved in page
31:
“I moved six
feet northwest. “Here, too.” I said.
“He’s in pieces?”
“There
more than one body,” Tolliver told her.
I held my hands
up to sharpen my focus. I turned again, more slowly, my eyes closed, my hands
raised, counting.
“Eight,” I said.
“Oh, my Lord on
heaven,” Twyla said. She sat down heavily on an old stamp. “I’m going to call
the police”.
Sandra
Rockwell came to Harper and asked about the victim in that place. Then Harper
explained it, but she still felt headache. There were eight bodies there. Each
of body already marked by placed the stuck of flag by Tolliver before. Then,
the two deputies, Dave and Hurry recovered the bones. It could see on page 35:
“A
little before eleven o’clock Dave and Harry, the two deputies, uncovered the
first bones.”
Sheriff Rockwell forced Harper to
explained how they death and who was the killer. Unfortunately, Harper could not
answer it yet because she still in pure condition at that time and could not
thought deeply by using her instinct. After that, Harper and Tolliver went to
their motel to pack up their stuff. Suddenly, Sandra Rockwell went to their
motel, knocked their door and stated that Harper was right, all boys were
there, and even a couple extra.
Tolliver
asked Harper to leave Doraville as soon as possible, because he did not want
the media knew and exposed them. Twyla argued it, and asked them to leave early
in the morning.
One
night, there was someone hit Harper. Then she saw the world dark, and darker.
When she open her eyes, some people stood around her, included Tolliver was
always tried to make her woke up. People there were not only the doctor, but
also the police in that hospital. Klavin and Stuart asked about chronological
story how it could be happen to her. That can be clearly answered on page 49:
“Yes, I said,
and I wasn’t happy with the weaknesses of my voice. “But not clearly. He was
wearing dark clothes and one of those knitted hoods. He came up out of the
darkness. He hit me on the shoulder first. And before I could get out of the
way, he hit me in the head.” I knew it was lucky I’d been dodging. The blow
hadn’t landed squarely.”
Manfred, Harper friend came to see
her. They were talked a lot in her room of that hospital. Then, Christmas
coming, Harper and Tolliver met their family from Dumpster. After felt better,
they wanted to leave Doraville in the evening.
Harper
was in Hospital, and was not get better yet.
Sheriff Rockwell still asked her the same question. Harper could not
stand with this and wanted to leave Doraville as soon as possible.
Unfortunately she still could not tell the truth. It approved on page 103:
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I
wish I could tell you who did it.”
“Oh, we’re going
to find out who done it.” He said, with out a shadow of a doubt in his voice.
“Me and Bethalynn, we got to. We got Carson here, he deserves to grow up
without being afraid.”
One
day, Tolliver and Harper went to the old place, Pine Landing Lake was about ten
miles from Doraville with Cotton family and McGrow family to vacation. It is
argued in page 105:
“The cabin at
the lake had been used by the Cotton family for forty years or more. In recent
years, the Mcgrow family had enjoy it. Parker said that at first they’d felt
like in thunders, but the surviving children of Archie Cotton were well into
their sixties and had no children of their own living in Doraville any longer.
They seemed content to let the children of their dad’s wife enjoy the old
place.”
On
the last chapter, Harper thought that Doraville was not saving for her. It felt
like déjà vu when she had to do a set of checks in the same hospital as a past
such as temperature, her scalp, and a broken arm with X-ray. Sandra Rockwell
did apologize to her. It could see in page 276:
Sandra Rokcwell
was my most suprising visitor. After we’d done the “How are you” and so forth,
she said, “I want to apologize for something.”
I
waited.
“I
knew whoever attacked you, I knew it had to be the killer. And there wasn’t a
trace of him. Or his vehicle. Turns out, Tom Almand says he parked over behind
Hair Affair and cut across the back parking lots. Then he hid behind the
Dumpster behind the motel. He was going to slash your tries, but then you came
out, and he’d brought the shovel just on the off chance”
BAB
III
CONCLUSION
Harper
and Tolliver are once again called in to investigate the disappearance of a
number of teenage boys in a small town in southern America. The grandmother of
one of the boys has called them much to the seeming annoyance and disbelief of
much of the rest of the town. However Harper, as always, proves everyone wrong
and uncovers the bodies of not just one boy but eight murdered teenagers.
I
feel like it is a good bit different to other books in this series, mainly
because the plot is more thriller-like than any before have been. You really
want to find out more about the killers and make sure they get the comeuppance
they deserve. Put plainly it's just damn exciting.
Anyway
they end the book in a pretty happy place where their relationship is concerned
and head off out of town into the sunset with no regrets so I can only presume
this romance will continue in the next book and may enjoy the last installment
as the politeness are slowly improving and I definitely enjoyed this book more than
its predecessors. We'll see.
