Inside the Milk Carton:
In this chapter, we're starting to see a more obvious change in Janie's thoughts and actions. Before, in the previous chapter, I had found Janie more to be spinning around confused thoughts. However, starting from this chapter, she's beginning to see her own life in a new perspective, picking out things that seem to lead her toward being different from her parents. She did not return her parent's obvious affection for her, and even thought of thoughts that would probably leave her mother beyond broken hearted if she heard it in person. As soon as her mother walks into her house, she kisses Janie from her face to her neck, and gives her a hug. Janie, on the other hand, stands there in hesitation, taking that moment to compare herself with her mother, and to realize how different they really were. Her father comes in the house, energized from the soccer practice, comes in with the equal amount of affection as her mother. Janie is beginning to build an invisible wall between her parents and herself. It's ironic, because this is all going inside Janie's head. Without her cold thoughts, that stick out dryly in the midst of the happy family atmosphere portrayed in the book, we would see a perfect family. We also see how loved she is, with Janie telling us how her picture is on every wall in her house.
Later on in the story, Janie signs up a cake decorating class with her mother. Even as this chapter ends, Janie is still confused and almost lost in all the thoughts and questions about her identity. More irrelevant, we see how close Janie and Reeve's families are; Janie is able to walk in without knocking, and Reeve's mother would treat her as a close family member. I feel that the story is starting to push forward, beginning, to build upon the plot that has been hammered down in the first two chapters.
Why Banned?
The only reason why this book might be banned in this chapter, is the wall Jane built against her parents, but I find this common anyway among rebellious teenagers and their parents. Other than that, don't sign up for cake decorating class.
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Introduction.
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. but as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar- a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New jersey- she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-it was she. how could it possible be true?
Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to peice thigns together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really Janie's parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?
taken from the back of the novel.
Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to peice thigns together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really Janie's parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?
taken from the back of the novel.
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1 comment:
I think I read this book couple of years ago. I enjoyed reading it and never thought about it being banned. Well I believe the plot itself isn't half bad. But the sidestories like why she was kidnapped is pretty disturbing.
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