Summer Reading Assignment #1

The book that I chose to read over the summer is In Darkness by Nick Lake. This book takes place in Haiti, where the main character, whose name is unknown, tells about his life. Currently he is sitting in darkness, in a hospital, after getting shot. He believes that an earthquake happened because he can get out of the room and there are dead bodies and rubble all around him. He talks about his dad (Papa), his mom (Manman), and his sister (Marguerite), and how his dad got killed and his sister taken away. Also, every other chapter, the story changes, going back and forth in time. When the story goes back they talk about the start of a revolution that the blacks started in Haiti to overthrow the French and Americans. They start out with a voodoo ritual and then the revolutions starts. These chapters (then) are from a narrator’s point of view, looking at the character Toussaint, where as the “now” chapters are from the main characters point of view. I think that throughout this book I will find out how the main character got shot and how the past with Toussaint is important. I predict that by the end of this book the main character will either find a way out of the hospital or will be rescued.