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Book Report / Novel Summary
Peretti, Frank & Dekker, Ted. House. Nashville Tennesee. Westbow Press: 2006.
Suspense at a haunted house: I selected this book because my neighbor suggested the book to me and I also really like mysteries and suspenseful stories. The novel is a action/suspenseful/spooky novel it also has twists in the book. An inn located in Alabama? The book doesn't have a specific time, it seemed to be in the present time like 1990s - 2000s.



Plot: A fighting couple is driving to a counseling place because they lost their daughter. They get lost and a police officer tells them to go on a route where their tires are spiked. They see an inn and head over and check themself in, They later see more people there a mother and 2 sons and another couple. Then suddenly the lights go out and Barsidious White [the man everyones afraid of] throws in a can that says the "house rules" Welcome To My House. House Rules: 1. God came into my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who comes to my house like I killed God. 3. Bring me one dead body and I might let rule #2 slide. After this happens the mother and her 2 sons try to lock up the couples in a freezer but they escape. Then they go into the basement and met a little girl named Susan. They don't listen to her and continue trying to get out when a police officer shows up [the one that led them there]. They soon find out it's Barsidious White. They escape though and Susan saves them by taking a bullet for them. The most interesting part for me was when they have duplicates of themselves and they don't know who is the real person. During this story also tha main point is that they learn about the bad qualities inside themselves.


Character: Susan, she is pale, has brown hair and eyes, shes short. She helps them escape and beat Barsidious White. She knows a lot about the house. Because she was important to them getting saved. She was depicted as an angel type thing. She escaped the house.


Evaluation: I did like the novel, I couldn't stop reading it I'd stay up til like 1 or 2 so i could read more. The main point of the book was about the "evils inside of you and how it changing their lifes. It taught me sometimes you think you're fighting with someone else and you need to fix things with them but sometimes you really need to look into yourself and fix yourself. I don't know if I would, I really liked it and it was a Christian based book with the morals so I don't know if people would want to read that but I thought it was really interesting. I think I would have acted the same way I hope I would realize what was happening to me [inner self] and realize what to change about myself. I liked the ending and wouldn't have changed it.


Author, Context and Trivia: Frank Peretti: Monster, The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness. Ted Dekker: Showdown, The Martyr's Song, Obsessed, Black, Red, White, Three. Blink, When Heaven Weeps, Thunder of Heaven, Heaven's Wager. I know that they are both Christian writers and they both write mysteries and action. I read part of Monster and Hangman's Curse. I really liked this one the best. Yes I do I want to read Three and The Oath.



Reader Response
Quote and Comment: "Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glassed churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal." 312. It's a scary quote but it is true, people do shoot people down with looks and words. People can get bullied to death with words. It reminds me of a story I read where these people were bulling to one guy and he didn't do anything but they kept on bullying him and he ended up commiting suicide. This is important because people need to realize that words affect people more than we think they do.

Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.

Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Barsidious White (Perspective) Because it happens in real life. (Evidence) We need to identify this problem first before we can fix it. (Significance or Relevance) Alot of people don't realize how much they are harming someone until someone flat out tells them or something horrible happens. (Connections) If people realized the hamr they were causing they could fix it and stop using words and looks as weapons.(Supposition)