https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo Characters, Themes and Ideas en-us 2016-07-14 23:17:05 UTC 2016-08-18 08:30:00 UTC hello@padlet.com vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433852 12 year-old David is the protagonist]]> 2016-07-14 23:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433852 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433902 David's father. Sheriff of Mercer County like his father before him. Mentally and emotionally crippled by his upbringing, his fight for justice brings him into conflict with his powerful brother and father. This is the central conflict of the novel. 

]]> 2016-07-14 23:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433902 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433958 2016-07-14 23:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116433958 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434088 "my father was the law"- page 19. David initially believes that the respect awarded to his father is because of his position as Sheriff. He later understands that the Hayden family name is a contributing factor.
"'Does Len know?'
'He knows.'" In Bentrock the Hayden family name protects Frank, even when the deputy sherrif has knowledge of his involvement in Marie Little Soldiers murder. Power has an influence on the investigation and interferes in the pursuit of justice.

]]> 2016-07-14 23:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434088 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434097 David's mother, Wes's wife. she was a Lutheran.  she worked as a secretary in the register of deeds office. she hated germs and would do anything to not let her family get sick]]> 2016-07-14 23:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434097 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434558 2016-07-14 23:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434558 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434698 "I've arrested him"-pg 109. Wesley arrests his brother despite the fallout it will cause with his family. He does what is morally right rather than ignoring the whole situation because a police men should be doing his job, where there should be no feelings taken into consideration
"He had long stopped being my father. He was now my interrogator, my cross-examiner. The sheriff. My uncle's brother" Wesley went from a father to an investigator in seconds and didn't give the comforting needed for David. Also isolating his work from his personal life. pg.98
“Does anyone else know? Are you sure no one else saw him? Did you tell anyone else?” Wesley page 99. Wesley doesn’t want anyone else to know that his brother did something wrong because he doesn’t want to believe it himself. 
"You don't lock up your brother" pg.120

]]> 2016-07-14 23:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116434698 jamespd_2011 https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116528050 2016-07-18 01:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116528050 vuik_jessica_j https://padlet.com/vuik_jessica_j/hkmma554vcoo/wish/116528977 "I hoped that I was doing the right thing and not just ratting on my uncle" David is beginning to grow up and realizes that the world is not as black and white as he thought. He is torn between doing the right thing by his father, uncle and his personal moral 
“He could have been looking in on her. Checking on a patient. … She was fine when he left her” Wesley page 99. Wesley doesn’t want to believe that his brother would kill Marie because he is his brother and brothers don’t keep secrets from each other  

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