Final Project

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.