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English Project: Analysis of a Reader

The reader that we chose is Seven, by Anthony Bruno. The book is based on the screenplay written by

Andrew Kelvin Walker for the fil which has the sae title.

Characters

!. Who are the characters in the story"

#. $ention the ain and secondary characters in the story.

%. &hoose the one you like best and describe hi'her.

(. &hoose the one you like the least and describe hi'her. )*plain why you don+t like hi'her.

Plot

. -s there any conflict in the story"

. What is the conflict about"

/. What is the clia* in the story" 0The clia* is the hi1hest point of conflict2

3. -s it solved" 4ow"

5. 6raw a scene that ay show the reader the ost iportant part in the story.

!7. )*plain the scene akin1 a 1ood description and evaluation.

Answers

!. The si1nificant characters in the story, in the order in which they appear in the book, are the

followin18 6etective Soerset, 6avid $ills, Tracy, the captain, $rs. 9ould, &alifornia, :ohn 6oe,

the dooran of the 4ot 4ouse $assa1e ;arlour, the an who was forced to rape a 1irl, $ark Swarr

and the delivery an in the seventh chapter.

-t is iportant that we should ention the characters that were killed accordin1 to :ohn 6oe+s

stran1e, but yet clever plan8 one killin1 for each of the Seven 6eadly Sins. These characters are8

;eter )ubanks 01luttony2, )li 9ould 01reed2, ect.

#. The ain characters are Soerset, an e*perienced hoicide detective plannin1 to retire soon? 6avid

$ills, Soerset+s arro1ant, youn1 new partner, and the serial killer who Soerset and $ills are

tryin1 to catch, :ohn 6oe.

The secondary characters are $ills+ wife, Tracy, who soon akes friends with Soerset? all of 6oe+s

victis naed in the first point of this pro>ect? the captain, who works with Soerset and $ills? $rs.

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9ould, who infors the detectives of soe useful facts for discoverin1 the criinal? &alifornia, a

police officer who appears after the urder of )li 9ould? the dooran of the 4ot 4ouse $assa1e

;arlour? the an who was forced to rape a 1irl? $ark Swarr, 6oe+s lawyer, and the delivery an in

the seventh chapter, who drives to the desert to which 6oe had taken Soerset and $ills and

delivers Tracy+s head to $ills.

%. The character we like ost in the reader is 6etective Soerset. 4e has been workin1 as a hoicide

detective for twenty@three years and, due to that, it is always uite hard for hi to 1o to sleep.

4owever, at the be1innin1 of the book we are told that he is plannin1 to retire in seven days and to

leave the city for a cofortable house in the countryside. When the killin1s start, we discover that

Soerset is an e*treely intelli1ent an, very e*perienced and soeone who does not flinch at the

si1ht of dead bodies. evertheless, at the sae tie we know that he is tired of all the evil that

people day by day do to each other, we realise that he has dreas and e*pectations and that he is

indeed a very noble an, and we also witness how affected he is with Tracy+s death. $oreover, at

the end of the book Soerset chan1es his ind about retirin1 and leavin1 the city8 after $ills isbound to be arrested for killin1 6oe, a ere suspect at the oent, Soerset decides that he cannot

retire, because, in his words, soeone had to stay to fi1ht the fi1ht.

(. The character that we like least in the reader is 6avid $ills. 4e used to work as a hoicide detective

in Sprin1field, but he oved to the city because, in his words, Sprin1field was too sall and

uniportant and he was lookin1 forwards to doin1 real detective work. Cro the scenes that are

described in the book, $ills+ wife, Tracy, does not see to be happy about livin1 in the city, which

shows that $ills did not 1ive uch consideration to Tracy+s desires when he decided to leave

Sprin1field. Throu1hout the investi1ation of 6oe+s cries, $ills shows hiself to be iature,

proud and very arro1ant, but actually uite ine*perienced when it coes to cases involvin1 serial

killers like 6oe. $oreover, when he was workin1 in a urder case in Sprin1field, $ills had thou1ht

that the urderer that he and another policean were facin1 would not shoot at the police. 4owever,

the urderer did fire his 1un and it hit the other policean and $ills+ old friend, Dick, leavin1 hi

in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. When $ills tells this story to Soerset, he is dishonest and

chan1es the endin1, not revealin1 that Dick has had to be in a wheelchair ever since and thus

showin1 hiself to be a coward person who does not take responsibility for his actions.

We dislike $ills because of his arro1ance and ine*perience in solvin1 cries and because of the way

in which he treated Soerset, our favourite character, throu1hout the book8 $ills constantly

disre1arded Soerset+s sound pieces of advice and tried to solve the urder case on his own while,

in reality, he needed his collea1ue+s help and e*perience.

. Ees, there is a conflict in the story and it starts in the first chapter of the book, 9luttony, with the

urder of ;eter )ubanks.

. The conflict centres on the cries that a serial killer, :ohn 6oe, is coittin1, and how detectives

Soerset and $ills try to catch hi. -t is iportant that we should e*plain 6oe+s plan and way of



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thinkin1. 6oe was of the opinion that people nowadays were forced to live with horrible thin1s and

that soethin1 had to be done to chan1e that situation. That is why :ohn 6oe thou1ht out a plan of

urders, rapes and utilations based on the Seven 6eadly Sins, and carried it out by killin1 or else

akin1 soeone else kill another person for bein1 1uilty of each of these sins.

-n the table that follows, we will nae each of the Seven 6eadly Sins, 1ive its definition and an

e*aple and e*plain the killin1 that 6oe or1anised accordin1 to that sin.

Sin Definition Example Killing organised by Doe

9luttony)atin1 and drinkin1 too

uch.

Soeone who cannot

stop eatin1 ice@crea.

The an who ate too uch was

;eter )ubanks8 6oe tied )ubanks+

hands and feet and not only forced

hi to eat a hu1e aount of food,

but also pieces of the floor cover.

9reed

Wantin1 to have too

any thin1s for

yourself.

Soeone who has F!7

illion, but wants F#7

illion.

)li 9ould was urdered because

of bein1 1uilty of this sin. Before

he was killed, he was forced to cut

into his own body. The word

1reed was written on the floor

with 9ould+s blood.

Sloth Bein1 too laGy.Soeone who watches

television all day lon1.

ealous of Soeone who hates his :ohn 6oe considered hiself to be



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While his stoach turns over and his eyes fill with tears, $ills orders 6oe to walk towards the bo*.

At the sae tie, Soerset orders $ills to throw down his 1un, but $ills a11ressively clais that

Soerset is now retired and conseuently has no authority over hi. $ills points his 1un at 6oe+s

chest, while the criinal says that he had been in $ills+ house that ornin1, that he tried to play

husband to Tracy and be a siple an, but that it did not work. That is why he took soethin1 to

reeber Tracy by 0her head2 and he killed her because he felt that his own sin was envy 0he was

envious of $ills+ ordinary life2. $ills turns very upset and an1ry at this news and 6oe encoura1es

$ills to 1et an1rier still, to becoe wrath and to kill hi, thus copletin1 the criinal+s plan of

one killin1 for each of the Seven 6eadly Sins. Althou1h Soerset tries to persuade $ills a1ainst

killin1 6oe, the youn1 detective+s an1er and 6oe+s annoyin1 provocations cause hi to shot :ohn

6oe.

At the endin1 of the book, we are told that $ills is bound to 1o to prison for killin1 a suspect and that

Soerset chan1ed his ind about retirin1 and finally decides to stay in the city and continue workin1

as a hoicide detective.

5. 6rawin1 of the ost iportant part in the story8


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