A Good Girl's Guide To Murder Sparknotes

Allison Lehmann

English 9/9H

Masters

Prompt: Choose a novel, play, or epic poem in which a physical journey is an important element and discuss how the journey adds to the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary. In the book A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, Pippa decided to do her school project on a murder that happened five years earlier in her hometown of Fairview. Many challenges arise while searching for the answers to all her burning questions. One thing was for sure though, and that was that Ravi Singh would stick with her throughout the whole journey. Without Ravi, she would have never continued what she set out to find and wouldn't have had the journey she did. The journey she partook in ended up changing

She soon interviewed the suspected killer’s brother named Ravi Singh and he wanted something to do with her investigation. He was convinced that his brother Sal didn’t kill Andie and he was determined to prove it alongside Pippa. Throughout the investigation, Pippa kept getting threats in the form of notes telling her she needed to stop searching for the answer to who committed this unforgivable act. One threat even said…”Want to see your dog again?” (pg. 290). They gave directions Pippa had to follow to get her dog back, but when she went through with the demand he was never returned. They ended up killing her dog, which drove Pippa to think the only way to keep the rest of her family safe was to stop the investigation. So that’s what she did. Ravi finally realized it wasn’t like her to give up on something that she’s worked on so tirelessly, and once he figured out why that was, he just couldn’t let her quit. When speaking to her he says that “We will work it out.”(pg. 300), and he tells her that “I’m here.” (pg. 304). Throughout the entire journey, they were both there for each other and nothing could happen that would ever change that. He knew that for her sanity, she needed to find the answer to what really

She noticed that they were way too quick to judge. When Andie died they all blamed Sal as the one who killed her when they didn’t have enough evidence to support that claim. It was the easy thing to do and because of this, Sal’s family was left with the reputation of being related to a murderer. His family’s life for all of five years was changed and closed off just because other people wanted to give someone else the blame. The people in her town were being incredibly selfish just because it was the easy thing to do. They didn’t want the target on their back so they just quit searching for the real killer. Pippa wasn’t like them though. When she began attempting to prove that Sal was innocent she had a major target on her back. She may have been close to quitting, but the important part was that she didn’t. She wasn’t like the rest of her town. She wasn’t about to convict an innocent person of murder and she was going to prove to the town that Sal had done nothing wrong. In the beginning of the book she states to Ravi that “...I don’t think your brother did it—and I’m going to try to prove it.” (pg. 5). She’s unlike everyone else in her town who blamed the murder on who seemed most guilty, because she knew things weren’t that simple. By the end of the book she had solid evidence that Sal wasn’t guilty and she presented a speech demonstrating what this project