Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ch. 4-6

In the beginning of the book i understood why Elizabeth was running away from the Russian authorities because she had done so many horrible things there so she went to the united States for safety. Now i am in the middle of the book and it is getting very confusing, the FBI has recruited her, a thief and crazy lady who is not even a US citizen to help them solve a murder case that nobody could solve. So my questions are why would they ask her to do such a thing where just by taking one look at her people think she belonged in jail. I mean i understand she was one of the best police officers in Russian until she went crazy. The murder that she is trying to solve is a case that has been closed for over 40 years and has now been reopened because she came. A wealthy mans daughter was murdered during a parade when she was only 16 years old and back then they couldn't figure out who had done it but now Elizabeth believes she has found the killer, maybe she is not so bad.

I absolutely love the book Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The intense action and amazing descriptions make me want to keep reading it. This book so far has been one of the best books i have read all year and i recommend it to any reader.

Links and Displays

This picture shows the whole series of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

 

This article briefly describes what the book is about and also small details from the book as a sneak peek.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo article 

This is not an interview with the author but it is an interview with some of the cast from the movie talking about the characters in the book and the book itself. 

 

Reading Skills

Some predictions and questions i have on the book Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are how does she already one the first page have trouble with the government. Also how can she just run off without telling anyone anything about where she is going. One prediction i have about how she might have already gotten into government trouble is if she had stolen quite a bit of money from more then one back or jewelry store to help her live on her own, which then led her to run off without telling anyone. A text-to-world connection is the type of government system they have in her city, the have a direct democracy just like our government system. A text-to-self connection is so far in the book the main character is always confused about what to do and where to go which i do all the time. A text-to-text connection is the amount of action and mystery in the first chapter of this book acts like the action and mystery in my summer reading book Just After Sunset. Already in the beginning of each book there was a problem.

My independent novel is called Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I have seen the movies before so i sort of knew what to expect from the book. So far the book is a lot different than i expected it to be, like compared to the movies, but it still so far is a really good book. This trailer does show a lot of what is in the book as well as in the movie it also makes you want to read the book and watch the movie after you have seen this trailer.

The theme of the book Just After Sunset By Stephen King, i believe is mystery and loss. Mystery in this book are not crimes but more like confusion of an unexplained occurrence. In the beginning the main character is teleported to the future which then leads to even more confusing situations. Eventually though a solution is found and all is good until again something unusual happens in a ordinary town. This quote is to help explain the theme mystery in the book "Blur of forest was very unlike him), and you could read how weary these men were in every feature of their faces. It was even in the sweat-stains on the collars of their shirts. Above them, the sky was queer organic red” (King 119). The other Theme in the book was loss. Here you would find that at the end of each short story there would be a solution and as a down side there would also be a loss of a character or hometown. “Her head snapped to the side. Her hair flew against her cheek, and she felt blood begin to flow into her mouth as her lower lip burst. The inner lining had been cut by her teeth, and deep. Almost all the way through, it felt like. Outside, the rain rushed down. I’m going to die while it’s raining” (King 46). This quote describes how although she had found out what happened in the disappearance it had back fired on her and because she knew what happened that day she had to pay for it. which in the end she was the loss in that story.

This article explains all the main points in the book including the themes loss and mystery.