The Tragedy Paper
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban, is mainly about a 17-year old albino, Tim MacBeth, who recently transfers to The Irving School. The book has two alternating point of views; one from Tim's first point of view, and a third point of view of Duncan, a current senior, listening to Tim's tragic story, through his CD recordings that he left for him as a "treasure". Duncan uncovers Tim's tragedy, which will create the greatest Tragedy Paper, Irving's version of a senior-year thesis, in the Irving's history.
Tim meets a girl, Vanessa, who goes to The Irving School. As the story goes on from the beginning of the book, Tim realizes that he had fallen in love to Vanessa, and she too. However, Vanessa has a boyfriend that also goes to their school, Patrick. So their situation is entangled into a love triangle between these three main characters. Duncan is consumed in listening to Tim's whole story, trying to find out Tim's tragic story and the connection to the idea of Tragedy.
The author creates suspense through Tim's viewpoint. His thoughts, actions, and the dialogues are part of this that creates the suspense in the book. In Chapter 12, Tim goes to the bathroom where he comes face to face with Patrick, Patrick tells Tim, "If you weren't so weird-looking already, I would mess you up... Maybe I'd break your nose, or give you a black eye. Nobody-and I mean nobody, except for me-gets to be alone in a bedroom with my girl. Is that understood?"(107). In this situation, Patrick warns Tim about not approaching Vanessa, and when a friend of Patrick walks inside the bathroom, he suddenly acts friendly to Tim. Things got very tense between them from that point, and throughout the book these two characters will have a friendly rivalry situation.
In Chapter 22, At the very last paragraph, Tim says "...When I was sure everyone was asleep, that Patrick and the other guys were back from distributing the invitations, I got up and walked down to the bookshelf outside the dining hall. Before I opened it, I went to the sick cabinet and got myself a few packets of graham crackers and ginger ale. I unlocked the glass case and until the sun came up. As I expected, the book confirmed everything I thought and feared"(226). In this chapter, Tim goes to the bookshelf in the dining hall that Mr. Simon, his English senior teacher, told him about a book that tells about the Irving traditions. What Tim found out correlates to the senior game outing, which are the seniors along with 10 juniors are planning to do for their Irving senior Game.
Tim meets a girl, Vanessa, who goes to The Irving School. As the story goes on from the beginning of the book, Tim realizes that he had fallen in love to Vanessa, and she too. However, Vanessa has a boyfriend that also goes to their school, Patrick. So their situation is entangled into a love triangle between these three main characters. Duncan is consumed in listening to Tim's whole story, trying to find out Tim's tragic story and the connection to the idea of Tragedy.
The author creates suspense through Tim's viewpoint. His thoughts, actions, and the dialogues are part of this that creates the suspense in the book. In Chapter 12, Tim goes to the bathroom where he comes face to face with Patrick, Patrick tells Tim, "If you weren't so weird-looking already, I would mess you up... Maybe I'd break your nose, or give you a black eye. Nobody-and I mean nobody, except for me-gets to be alone in a bedroom with my girl. Is that understood?"(107). In this situation, Patrick warns Tim about not approaching Vanessa, and when a friend of Patrick walks inside the bathroom, he suddenly acts friendly to Tim. Things got very tense between them from that point, and throughout the book these two characters will have a friendly rivalry situation.
In Chapter 22, At the very last paragraph, Tim says "...When I was sure everyone was asleep, that Patrick and the other guys were back from distributing the invitations, I got up and walked down to the bookshelf outside the dining hall. Before I opened it, I went to the sick cabinet and got myself a few packets of graham crackers and ginger ale. I unlocked the glass case and until the sun came up. As I expected, the book confirmed everything I thought and feared"(226). In this chapter, Tim goes to the bookshelf in the dining hall that Mr. Simon, his English senior teacher, told him about a book that tells about the Irving traditions. What Tim found out correlates to the senior game outing, which are the seniors along with 10 juniors are planning to do for their Irving senior Game.
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