Freshman English Reading Journal
Kavel Rao
Yuen
Freshman English
3/12/17
Week 1 Reading Journal
1. (A) Straight from the outset, after announcing Lydia's death, Ng writes, "No one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast" (Ng 1). (B) Lydia is dead, and the only clue is her banal absence from the breakfast table. Ng's first description of Lydia, whose death the plot revolves around, portrays her as just a regular high schooler, just going through the motions of life.
2. (A) When Lydia's mother first starts searching for her, her mind glances off the possibility of a kidnapping or worse, and she thinks to herself that those kinds of things don't happen in Middlewood, which is "just a tiny college town of three thousand, where driving an hour gets
Yuen
Freshman English
3/12/17
Week 1 Reading Journal
1. (A) Straight from the outset, after announcing Lydia's death, Ng writes, "No one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast" (Ng 1). (B) Lydia is dead, and the only clue is her banal absence from the breakfast table. Ng's first description of Lydia, whose death the plot revolves around, portrays her as just a regular high schooler, just going through the motions of life.
2. (A) When Lydia's mother first starts searching for her, her mind glances off the possibility of a kidnapping or worse, and she thinks to herself that those kinds of things don't happen in Middlewood, which is "just a tiny college town of three thousand, where driving an hour gets