Killing Mr. Griffin, by Lois Duncan

The setting in this book ended up influencing the characters and their actions a lot. As far as the whole community thing goes, that’s how they were all bonded together, by their school, their social activities. It was the typical teenage life for them. And then the other part of the book took place in the Sanaria Mountains. The mountains is where they hid the body and did all their planning.

This book started off introducing Susan McConnell. She was the main character. Susan and her family were very close and although Sue was a bit nerdy and quiet in public, with her family she was always well-liked and welcomed. It starts off with Sue running into her crush for years, David Ruggles. He was the class president and most liked and adjusted children at their school. His father left when he was a baby in search of a new life and life filled with freedom and no responsibility. In the mean time, David and his mother lived together an

d helped take care of David’s sickly grandmother.

All the conflicts in this story were created by the leader of the pact, Mark Kinney. Everyone else was just one of the followers. Even though Sue was a nerdy girl and sort of a crybaby in the beginning she was the one who stuck through the truth and wanted to make a major change in her life after it was all done and over with. She was the one who will come out of everything a changed person, an honest person, a person who wants to do good for others.

The character I chose to analyze was Sue McConnell. Reason being that she was the main character, not to mention she was the one who grew and matured the most in the story. She was also the one who learned a big lesson in life, probably one that some of the others would never learn.

Mark’s ex girlfriend Lana, ended up finding some pills with Brian Griffin’s name on them up in the woods where they buried his body. After it was on the news and such, she reported them to the police and they found the body. They also noticed that his class ring was missing. The one that David had put in a box in his room that his grandmother ended up finding and keeping. She though it was David’s fathers ring and that maybe David was seeing his father again. The old woman was having a hard time giving it back to him, so that’s when Mark took it upon himself to get that evidence back himself anyway possible. Next thing you know, David calls and tells Sue that his grandmother is dead and the ring is gone. This was a real reason to stop all the lying and turn all of them in. Mark found this out and decided to tie Sue up and teach her a lesson and started by starting a fire in her house, if it wasn’t for Mrs. Griffin and her detective, Sue would have been a victim as well!

After they left him there, David and Sue went home and Betsy and Mark attended Jeff’s basketball game later that night. David called Sue and decided to come visit her and talk with her about things. When Sue found out that they left him in the mountains all alone for hours on in, she demanded that Dave take her there and that they reveal themselves and free him. When they went up there, they discovered Mr. Griffin to be dead! He wasn’t moving nor breathing. Although it was completely unexplainable and not their fault he died, they still felt responsible for kidnaping him and if they would had never done that he would of never died. Sue was devastated and couldn’t grasp the thought of anything except telling her father what happened, just saying it was a mistake. David and Sue knew they had to go tell the others. When they arrived at the school gym and told them, Mark’s immediate reaction was to go bury the body and get rid of all the evidence, they already had alibis, everything would be okay if they just stuck to the original plan. Of course no one had an guts to stick up to him, not to mention they were so shocked still they listened to anything

Some topics in this essay:
Mark Kinney, Sue McConnell, Brian Griffin’s, David Ruggles, Betsy Mark, Griffin Mark, Jeff Mark, David Sue, , Colorado Griffin, mark kinney, sue mcconnell, jeff garret, that’s mark, david ruggles, crush david, main character, class ring, mark decided, jeff betsy,