... vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn't able to do things most kids did during the summer vacation like swimming. Marsha remembered "it was only after my father left and Boyd Ellison was killed that I started to wonder to myself what might happen next."(35) Since Marsha had so much time on her hands during the summer ... the day that Boyd Ellison was murdered, Mr. Green had returned home from work early and then left again. According to Marsha's evidence notebook, "around the middle of July-July 20th to be exact, three and a half weeks after my father and Aunt Ada ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... as I stared at the mutilated insect, wasn't pity; it was closer to a lost word between revulsion and desire. I wanted to put the praying mantis into my mouth" (133). Only when her brother comes and yells at her calling her actions disgusting, does she realize what she is doing. She starts to hate Boyd Ellison ... occurrence, so astonishing that for a long time the people who lived there felt somehow responsible, as if they should have foreseen something so unforeseen. Like my mother, they felt guilty for ever having felt secure" (116). Everyone is also very focused on the Watergate scand...

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• Grade Level: High School