Daddy’s Little Girl was written by Mary Higgins Clark. It starts off when Ellie Cavanaugh is seven years old and her older sister Andrea is fifteen. Her sister is murdered on night in November and that tears the family apart. Ellie and her mom leave, and her dad doesn’t go after them. Mrs. Cavanaugh becomes an alcoholic and Ellie and her move around every couple years for her job. The man convicted for the murder, Rob Westerfield, has been in prison for 23 years, and is being released. With her dad, Ted, away with his new family and her mom, Genine, dead from kidney failure, Ellie is alone and battling Rob and his family fortune to get him put back in jail. Ellie gets threats as well as help from her friends and other people who the Westerfield …show more content…
Person because she is facing Rob Westerfield and all of his crimes. Ellie knew that Rob was out for her, and tried to get help from the police and friends, but the police didn’t believe her and she put her friends in danger. At one point in the story, Ellie was staying at Mrs. Hillmer's, her old neighbor, guest house. One night, the guest house caught on fire and Ellie barely escaped with her computer, cell phone, and all of the information she had on Rob Westerfield, which was years worth of newspapers her mom had collected. The police had thought she set the fire, as well as pretend that the apartment was broken into prior to the fire. “It didn’t take me long to understand that Detective Bannister had one goal in mind: He was determined to prove his theory that I had made up the initial story about the intruder in the apartment. He didn’t put it quite so bluntly, but the scenario he put together went pretty much as follows: After hearing about the supposed intruder, Mrs. Hilmer had been nervous. She only imagined someone had followed her to and from the library. Disguising my voice, I made the phone call warning her that I was unstable.” (Clark 196). “According to Detective Bannister, I had set the fire to gain attention and sympathy for myself, while publicly accusing Rob Westerfield of trying to kill me.” (Clark 196). Rob attempted to kill her multiple times, and the cops only believed her when they physically caught him the night he …show more content…
Andrea really liked Rob, even though she was kind of scared of him. He ended up killing her. Ellie trusted the cops, or at least should have been able to, but they were blaming her for things that Rob has planned. Alfie’s brother Skip thought he could trust his lawyer, but he ripped up evidence that could have helped Skip and he went to jail. Finally, Ellie should have been able to trust her father, but since she thinks he just let her and her mom go without even trying to get them back, she ignored him and kept to herself. “I know you mean to be kind,’ I said, ‘but I really wish you would leave me alone. I don’t need anything from you, and I don’t want anything from you.” (Clark 201-202). Until her dad saved her from Rob, she pushed him away and didn’t want to stay with him, even though he insisted many times. “But when Rob was mad at her, she wanted to explain to him that that was why she agreed to go out with Paulie, to keep him from telling Daddy.” (Clark 18-19). Andrea met Rob and trusted him to be forgiving and instead he beat her head. He also beat Phil to death before he meat Andrea. People should learn to trust but not put your life in their hands, especially if you don’t know them super well. You should also listen to your
They tell her that they have found him but only a part of him. His jaw bone. This make Olivia trave back to her home town Medford. Terry’s family are having his funural so on her way there she decied to stop by her grandmothers old house. In the car she also decied that it would be a good idea to not tell any about who she really was.Olivia happens to meet a woman named Nora that lives next door and she is told that Nora was her grandmothers best friend. At this point Nora tells Olivia lots of information about her family and ends up asking her to take her to Terry’s feneral. This is a preferct cover for her. With being aroud family member that she doesn’t know or have been around makes it even harder to keep her past a sercret. After seeing and hearing lots of things from many different people Olivia wants to solve her perents murders. Along the way after she moves into her grandmother old house she picks up an frien named Duncan and the grow closer and
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that his innocence was taken away from him. This led to many of Holden's actions. Such
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In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” is about a girl named Dee that is
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is about the intricacies and complexities in the relationship between a mother and daughter. Throughout the story, the mother imposes upon her daughter, Jing Mei, her hopes and dreams for her. Jing Mei chooses not what her mother wants of her but only what she wants for herself. She states, "For, unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could be only me" (Tan 1). Thus this "battle of wills" between mother and daughter sets the conflict of the story.