Mystic+River+Meeting+2


 * Questions**

What is the mood after the following events:

1) After Dave gets taken? //After Dave gets taken by the suspicious looking man, the mood is very confused and mysterious. Each boy is experiencing a lot sadness, because they are unsure if they will ever see their friend again.//

2) The time period that Dave is gone //While Dave is gone, the other two boys are hopeful that they will see their friend again. It it very dry and as the reader it is hard to read these few days in between because not a lot is going on. It's interesting, however, because there are a lot of suspicions and assumptions.//

3) When Dave gets back //A huge relief is swept across the city and his neighbors throw him a block party and all of them feel overjoyed.//

4) Why is there a lot of tension in the atmosphere? There is an extreme tension between Sean and Jimmy's families since Dave's kidnapping. Their parents do not want them to hang out because they believe that their actions can lead up to something bigger problems.

5) What is the Authors tone or attitude toward the characters? All three of main characters are responsible to everything that had happened so far and by him relating all the characters into each problems makes the book more mysterious because it gets more difficult to figure out for the readers.

After Dave is taken by the "cops," Sean's father comes out and asks where Dave went. Sean's father learns that Dave got into what the boys thought was a cop car. Immediately, there is panic within the three families since the parents know this man could not have been a cop. In the days that Dave is missing, all the characters are very depressed and confused. Sean and Jimmy, being so young, do not completely understand the seriousness of what is happening. Four days later, Dave returns to his family and is not the same boy who stepped into the cop car. All the neighbors try to cheer Dave up with parties and treats. Even though it is not exactly said what happened to Dave during those four days, the readers have an idea due to Dave's behavior. The recent incident with Dave caused tension between the Devines and the Marcuses. Sean's father and mother believe that Jimmy is a "wild child" and do not want Sean to play with him any more. After Dave's kidnapping is concluded, the story fast-forwards 25 years to 2000. The readers are introduced to Katie Marcus, Jimmy's 19 year-old daughter. Katie goes out with a group of girls to party and have fun. The girls get extremely drunk and start getting kicked out of bars because they are too rowdy. Dave Boyle, now in his late thirties, is in one of the bars and notices Katie dancing on a table but doesn't take any action is stopping her, instead he just pretends she isn't there. After the girls are done with their night out, Katie (extremely drunk) drives her friends home. Alone in the car, Katie is driving back to her house when a person jumps out into the middle of the road and lands directly in front of her car. Terrified, Katie stops the car. A dark figure starts walking toward the car but Katie is relieved because the person is familiar to her, until they pull out a gun.
 * Summary**