amityvillehorror

__Shauna:__

Amanda-I would leave.
====**What do you think was at the boathouse that night that Gorge woke up? Why do you think he keeps waking up at 3:15 and thinking about the same thing? Is the boathouse a key component in the story or just another useless tidbit?**====

__Amanda and Brianna:__
====1. " Don't you remember the Defeos, Frank?" asked one of the men at the table. "Last year? The son killed his whole family. His father, mother, and four brothers and sisters. Terrible, terrible thing. It was a big story in all the papers."====

4. "Get Out"
====5. A half hour later, George was back in bed, still wide awake. As an ex-Marine, not too many years out of the service, he was fairly accustomed to emergency wake up calls. It was taking him time to turn off his inner alarm system.====

__Ro and Amanda:__

__Briana:__

__Rachel:__
====What we discussed in Amityville Horror book group is from pages 1-80. Basically we all came to the conclusion that there is definitley some super natural force that is causing wierd things to happen, for example how the toilets turned black, or the flies in the windows. Even little things like the families personality changes, to the moving ceramic lion in the living room. Right now, the whole family is lying to themselves about what is doing these things, but in the deepest corners on their minds...they know what is truly lurking around every occurance.====

__Rachel:__

"There, floating two feet above the bed was kathyl She was slowly drifting away from him toward the windows!" page 116
===="Up to that point, Father Mancuso had not attributed the source of the smell to his own apartment. But after lighting the incense in his rooms and returning to the school building with the others, the priest realized that his apartment had been the first struck-" paige 109====

__Amanda:__
====From pages 80-120, the strange events continue to happen. They get worse and worse. For example, earlier in the book event that were unexplainable were happening, but they could have been something other than spirits. During the recent part of the book, when George went upstairs, Kathy was being levitated. There is no other explanation for something like this. The events happening from the beginning of the book to the part we are at now are getting more and more unexplainable.====

"He was nervous and Sniveling, kathy noted, particularlymafter Missy had introduced Harry to her Unseen friend Jodie"
===="George turned on the night stand light next to him and gasped. He was looking at a 90 year old woman-the hair wild, a shocking white, the face a mass of wrinkles, and ugly lines, and salivia dripping from her toothless mouth"====

__Amanda:__
==== Discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? ====

==== In the book, George always wakes up at 3:15. This is the time that Ronnie Defeo killed his family. I think this means that George will eventually do the same. Kathy and George see the pig multiple times and gearge see Ronie Defeo’s face. The author does this to involve the reader more in the book and put them in the characters shoes. ====

Person D- Shauna
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__Shauna:__
====This book meeting we discussed the end of the book. We talked about how the confronting the spirit changed the families' lives. We also had a discussion our favorite parts of the books, including the magical pig. After reading this book we all want to watch the movie to get more insight about the Amityville Horror.====