Response to Literature

I have read the book Séance by Joan Lowery Nixon. This book is about a girl named Lauren whose foster sister talks her into going with to a séance where she disappears. Then she is found dead which launches this small town in east Texas into a frenzy of rumors and lies. This is a fiction book that has taught me that people aren’t always who they seem. I think this lesson is important because even if you have known someone for a long time, you never know what they do behind closed doors.
The author used the narrator’s intelligence and paranoia to show that it could have been anyone who killed the two girls. He also made the murderer someone the narrator knew and trusted to support this theme. Another thing is he made her an old woman who nobody would have expected. This is how the author supports his theme.
I had a friend who I thought was a cool guy, but after a while he became not such a nice guy. Then after awhile we stopped hanging out. Later that month I saw him and we got a ride to the mall from him. When we got there he and his brother jumped me and my friend Bobby. This surprised me because I thought we were friends.
Séances are the ritual communicating to spirits. The word Séance came from the French seoir which means “to sit” and is about 152 years old. Meetings called 'circles', because participants, called 'sitters', sat around a table (or on chairs arranged in a circle) in order to link hands, in the belief that this boosted the psychic forces which encourage paranormal manifestations. They are meant for people in the physical dimension to communicate with one or more of the other dimensions.
I think this theme was a believable because it is based in the real world. All of the things in this book could happen to anyone and we all should be careful of the people we meet. All the characters acted in a manner that I would have acted in, if I was in that situation.