Recap from my last blog: Charlie finds out he has a brother, who is an Anansi God like his father. He tells a spider he needs his brother and Spider, the name of his brother, comes to Charlie. They drink and have a wonderful time. Charlie wakes up next to Daisy, a girl he met the night before, and is confronted by his future mother-in-law. When he is asked about Daisy, he lies that she is his cousin.
My thoughts so far: Before Daisy leaves Charlie's house, she kisses him on the lips. Charlie feels it was passionate and meaningful. He has never experienced that feeling before even with Rosie. So now I am thinking, if Rosie is distracted with Spider...maybe Charlie will fall in love with Daisy.
Because Charlie had a dreadful hangover from the night before, Spider took his place at work. One positive Spider does is earn Charlie a two thousand check and 2 weeks off of work with pay. They don't look alike at all, but because Spider is a God, he can make any human believe he is someone else. This leads to Rosie, Charlies fiancee, believing that Spider is Charlie. She describes how she falls in love with him all over again. She never noticed how beautiful his smile was and how good she felt around Charlie when in reality, its not Charlie. I founds this to be the humourous part of the story. Spider shows Rosie a wonderful time and asks her out again. When I first read this, I thought "How could Spider do such a thing to Charlie!!!! He is making Rosie cheat on Charlie. What an awful brother Charlie has. Spider has no sense of self or respect in my opinion".
To make the situation even worse, Spider won't leave! Instead he makes a room for himself with a waterfall outside his window and a hot tub built in. I have added ignorant to Spider's list of personal traits. The worst thing Spider does is he takes Rosie home and has sexual encounters with her. Charlie unforuntatly sees this act and goes hysteric. All he can think to do is walk off his anger and confusion. Meanwhile, Grahame Coats, Charlie's boss, is planning on hiring a dectective to find out if Charlie has been stealing money from the company. It is a coincidence that the detective is Daisy. Dum dum dum.
A mystery is starting to show who everyone really is and what their role is in the story. I am at a cliff-hanger right now in the story and am excited to see how this story unfolds.
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A great start, Emily. I like that you're including some summary and the style of writing you're using. Make sure you include lots of your own reflections on the book as well.
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