Summary Of The Story Called The Ravine

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Is the characters in the story still going to be friends?Vinny and Joe-Boy are the characters in the story called the”ravine”. The boys are fifteen and going to go swim in a pond where a boy had died two weeks and one day ago. Vinny was confused. On pages 6 and 7 Vinny’s dads tells him to go to the Ravine, his mom tells him not to go, because she says Ravine is haunted this was making no sense to Vinny whether to go or not to go without permission. Vinny was scared. The author states that Vinny stepped around a footprint in the mud. Thinking about the boy taking this same path to the ravine, then jumping to his death gave Vinny the creeps. Vinny was weak.The author states on page 10 and 11. Vinny was weak to say no to his friends

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