Summary Of It's Greek To Me By Mary Higgins Clark

The novel written by the venerable Mary Higgins Clark is a suspense novel about the abduction of a set of twin girls named Kelly and Kathy Frawley, the story behind the abduction, and them and their parents journey throughout it. Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor’s chapter 8 “It’s Greek to Me” analyzes how many modern and historical pieces of literature echo Greek mythology, and this novel Two Little Girls in Blue meets the criteria of Foster’s chapter 8. Mary Higgins Clark’s novel is similar to the story of Cronus, a Titan of Greek mythology, for Clark’s novel echoes the beginning of the story of Cronus involving the abduction and the reasons for it, the emotions of the characters and their use of deception throughout the story, and also the end of the story involving the liberation of the captives.

It is important to note that after Cronus’s children were eaten, they did not die immediately, for they were gods and died very slowly, hence why they are considered kidnapped. Two Little Girls in Blue echoes the beginning of the story by having the same premise of children being kidnapped out of greed. In Clark’s novel, the twin girls are stolen by four criminals Angie, Clint, Lucas, and the Pied Piper, and the reason for the twins’ abduction is so that the their greedy abductees can make a profit from their ransom fee. This is much like Cronus’s reason for taking and eating his children, it was because Cronus was told he would be overcome by one of his children, so out of greed for his power and throne he committed the