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Book Report on "A Dramatic Death"
Book Report on "A Dramatic Death"

This story starts off with the Dorking Drama Group who are making a play everything is going well until gruesome accidents start happening but the group ignores it until a prop falls down and kills someone. The police do a investigation but conclude that it was a accident so the play goes on, but everybody is convinced it was foul play and everyone in the drama group is a suspect. The cast members start investigating the murder by themselves and everybody starts turning against each other. In the end two cast members named
Steve and Claire find out the murder is Claire because they themselves were attacked by her but they identified her. Emma was a jealous cast member who loved Steve but Claire was Steve 's girlfriend, Steve always treated her like a sister but she wanted more than that and went to great lengths to achieve.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

The main characters in my book are Steve and Emma.

Steve was a popular good looking guy who all the girls liked. He didn 't like school that much expect the Dorking Drama Club where he acted in the play, he had a sister and Steve was very careful to trust anyone during all the murder.

Emma was very fond of Steve but because she was Steve 's sister 's friend for so long Steve treated her as a sister, which she didn 't like. Emma became so fond of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the end she went to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and she was said to have a very over active imagination.

SETTING

The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, the play took in a high school drama room. The setting brings people together (the drama group) which brings conflicts. The town was described to bring a spooky setting to the novel.

THEME

The theme of this novel is that we shouldn 't trust everybody we know no matter how close they are. In the novel the murder is found to be a very close friend to everyone. Everyone should be considered a



Bibliography: Bingley, Margaret. A Dramatic Death. New York: Scholastic, 1994.

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