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Character Analysis: Sadie By Courtney Summers

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What is a Podcast? A podcast is like a talk show of events. In the novel Sadie By Courtney Summers the main character is Sadie. Sadie had a sister but she died in a burning schoolhouse. Sadie is trying to find out what happened to her. There is a podcast about all these people who were related to the family and the scene of the burning schoolhouse. Sadie has an unknown father that has a name of Keith but goes by Darren M. She's trying to figure out if he did that to Mattie or not. The symbol is a podcast because it relates to a girl going missing. The podcast represents a missing girl in Cold Creek. It was through a podcast that the reader first learns of a missing girl: “An investigation of Sadie was declared a runaway by local law enforcement” (9). In the podcast West McCray is the one who is hosting, and he is the one who is reporting the story. West McCray gets a call from Earl, who is an older man who was going to work and he saw a school burned down. In the school, Matties body was found and she was dead. She was only 13 years old. “They matched the DNA from Mattie’s crime scene to Jack” (302). …show more content…

Norah Stackett saw her go into a truck and didn’t say anything but saw it all. Norah was working at a grocery store late at night. When Sadie disappeared, she was looking for her father in Montgomery. Sadie took an old photo with her and showed every person who knew him: “I knew the man she was asking after and he didn’t have any kids” (111). Sadie went to a diner and her father was a regular at the diner. The person who was working there might know the father really well. ‘Ruby Lockwood was working there and found a girl desperately finding her father’. Sadie found out her father had many names. His names were Jack, Christopher and Keith as Darren

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