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Essay / Analysis and Summary of Lost and Found - 944
Lost and FoundThe normal life of a teenage girl in high school named Darcy. She lives in a small apartment with only her sister named Jamee, her mother named Mattie, and her grandmother who is suffering from a stroke. Darcy was a sophomore in high school and only had one friend named Brisana. They were always heterosexual students and generally characterized other people as "mediocre lives" on a scale of 1 to 10. The only problem was that her sister Jamee had problems at school and was always in trouble. Jamee was an 8th grader and was found hanging out with bad casual people in high school with their driver's licenses. Jamee was a good child until his father left them for another woman. To make matters even sadder, her grandmother had a stroke that left her immobilized and in danger of dying. While their mother was barely at home since she works almost 24/7. While Darcy was at school, he was assigned a project regarding a girl named Tarah. A girl she didn't like because she was very "stupid" according to her. But Darcy found out about this just because the person you . hate, it doesn't mean the person doesn't have a heart once you get to know them. They ended up doing this by going to the ocean with Tarah and her boyfriend Cooper. But Cooper started messing with Darcy and threw a water bug that lives on blood on his sweater. Darcy screamed and struggled to get it out of her sweater, but she ended up going home on the bus. As she waited for the bus, a Silver Toyota car drove up with no one else on the street. Darcy was scared if he was going to do something to her and hoped the bus would come faster and luckily it did. A few days later, Cooper and...... middle of paper... scary and scary. Darcy calls the cops and finds out…. The man in the Silver Toyota is her father. This definitely surprises readers and makes it feel like the story is about to reach its climax. Unfortunately, while Darcy was dating Hakeem, Jamee ran away from home. Darcy finds out and panics, but manages to stay calm enough and call everyone connected to her, including the cops. This makes readers excited about how they will expect even more excitement from this story. Then it hits them, their grandmother talks about Jamee's past and reveals where she was. Darcy and the group rush to the hiking spot they went to 5 years ago and find her. Finally, readers were amazed at how their grandmother did something very amazing in the condition she was in.End.