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The Westing Game Analysis
The Westing game starts out when Barney Northrup the realtor, is renting an apartment named Sunset Towers to six different families. The Wexlers, the Hoos, the Theodorakises, J.J. Ford, Sydelle Pulaski, and Flora Baumbach. One of these was a bomber, a bookie, a burglar, and a mistake. Also in Sunset towers there is a Doorman who is Sandy McSouthers, a Delivery boy who is Otis Amber, a cleaning lady Berthe Erica Crow, and a coroner Dr. Sidney Sikes. When Sam Westing the founder of Westingtown is found dead by Turtle Wexler in his residence, a big mystery starts. Sam Westing has invited all of the families to his will reading. When all of them are in the Westing house he had created game for them to play and they all had to play. The object of the game was to found who had murdered him, and it was one of them. …show more content…
I trusted her because she was really into looking who the murderer was. She was investigating a lot more and seemed pretty honest. She also lived in the Westing house and Sam Westing had paid for her education to become a nurse and she would definitely not want to repay him with killing him. Also she is a judge and would know the consequences you would have to pay. The person who was most suspicious in my opinion was James Shin Hoo. He was suspicious because he had some dirty issues with him and seemed like he really had hated him. When he sued Sam Westing he would have thought that Sam Westing would want to kill him and before Sam Westing did he killed him.
The Westing Game was not one of my favorite books because mystery is not really my favorite genre. The reason I don’t like mysteries is because they are too confusing for me. They don’t tell you about the characters too much. The Westing Game was still an okay book and I actually would recommend it to my friends because their taste in books might be different than my taste in books. Overall if I would rate this book I give it a 3 out of

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