Dead_Famous_p2

=Plot= The story covers sixty-three days, but it's not chronological. It jumps a lot back-and-forth from the happenings at the reality show to the investigation a couple of weeks later. A flashback also occurs later on in the story to see what happened to the contestants after they had been voted out from the house.

The most important scenes are definitively those that include conflicts. They are important parts of the murder investigation, because they can hint to motives of murder.

In the beginning of the novel, we’re thrown in to the middle of the timeline. This leaves us with a lot of questions, like for instance: What has happened? Who are these people and what are they doing? These questions cage one in the story and one won’t leave it before the questions are answered. After all the housemates, producers and policemen are presented, the middle of the story begins. It consists mainly of two parallel stories: The contestants in the house, and the policemen investigating the murder at a later point at the timeline. When the investigation is done and the finale of the show comes, it’s time to wrap things up by answering all the questions in the end of the story.

The main plot is the investigation of the murder, and how it could’ve happened. But as very many know, reality shows are filled with intrigues, and //House Arrest// is no exception. Events from something as “insignificant” as cheese-stealing to more major events like sex-abuse all play a part in the bigger story, because they can explain motives for murder. So in one way or another, all the conflicts in the house play an important part of the main plot. There are also some subordinate plots among the investigators, for example Chief Coleridge who strive to be the main part of a theatre-play.

The protagonists are of course the officers who try to solve the case. The antagonist, on the other hand, is harder to find. Well, of course we know it’s the murderer, but who is the murderer? This won’t be revealed until the very end…

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