How do you know what my name is?" she said suspiciously
It’s troubling because she never said her name but he knew it.
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- Oct 2025
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I toldja shut up, Ellie," Arnold Friend said,
The way the author uses "toldja" is weird, is the author emphasize Anrold's friend talking voice.
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- Sep 2025
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Maybe you two better go away," Connie said faintly."What? How come?" Arnold Friend cried. "We come out here to take you for a ride.
This is troubling because Arnold’s words sound friendly at first, but they actually suggest danger and coercion. It shows that Connie is being lured into a situation she can’t control, creating fear and suspense.
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I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about you—like I know your parents and sister are gone somewheres and I know where and how longthey're going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your best girlfriend's name is Betty. Right?"
In the beginning, I think the boy only knows Connie's name, but in this paragraph, he tells her that he knows where her family goes, how long they will be gone, and even the name of her best friend. It makes me feel uncomfortable.
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"Connie, you ain't telling the truth. This is your day set aside for a ride with me andyou know it," he said, still laughing. The way he straightened and recovered from his fit oflaughing showed that it had been all fak
That part where Arnold pretends Connie already agreed to go with him is troubling because it feels manipulative and fake.
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This here is my name, to begin with, he said. ARNOLD FRIENDwas written in tarlike black letters on the side,
The way he introduced his name was strange, and he even marked numbers on his car, which makes people question his identity and purpose.
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"Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're uh—they're drinking. Sitting around," he saidvaguely, squinting as if he were staring all the way to town and over to Aunt Tillie's backyard. Then the vision seemed to get clear and he nodded energetically.
The stutter gave it away that he's attempting to fabricate a lie. Or that he really had seen them before. It's vaguely put. Either way, it's extremely alarming.
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She stood
In two words, it shows the eventual submission, a quiet sacrifice. Extremely powerful.
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He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around hiseyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chipsof broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way.
The sharp contrast between his skin suggests he had been chronically predatory.
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