Ten By Gretchen Mcneil Sparknotes

The book Ten written by Gretchen McNeil takes place on Henry Island. The only thing on this island is a vacation home owned by Jessica, one of the teens in the story. She plans on throwing a party on the island and she invites all of her friends. But what they don’t know is that she isn’t the one who actually sent out the invites. There are ten teens in the story, Meg, Minnie, T.J., Ben, Gunner, Kumiko, Nathan, Vivian, Kenny, and Lori. They are all suspicious when Jessica doesn’t show up to her own party. This makes the story very scary and ominous all throughout because they don’t know where she is and they are on her island by themselves. They all know each other from school except for Ben. No one really knows him but he told everyone

She likes another main character named T.J Fletcher. She has just graduated high school and she is going to UCLA when school starts back up. She is very uptight and doesn’t like to go to parties or do things that she wouldn’t normally do. She is a ‘good kid’. She gets good grades and likes school. Her and T.J. are the only ones who live. Another important character in this book is Minnie. She has blonde hair, “Minnie cocked her head.”’How did you know who I was? I heard you’d be the pretty blonde one”’(14). She and Meg are best friends. Meg and Minnie get into an argument in the book over T.J. He is Minnie’s ex-boyfriend but Meg likes him. This leads to Minnie getting killed by a gunshot to the neck from Ben, the killer. T.J. Fletcher, the boy that Meg and Minnie fight over in the book is tall, strong and athletic. “He was just as tall as T.J. but thin and lithe where T.J. was muscular and athletic.”(14). He also has brown hair. He and Meg escape in the end by hopping on the ferry when it arrives after three days of the teens dieing. The ferry only goes out to the island when it is scheduled to so there was no way of escaping until it came

Minnie goes to the party because she is invited by a popular girl. “‘Jessica Lawrence invited us to her house party. That’s not an invitation you turn down, but… “She sighed deeply. “‘I don’t know. It’s not like we’re friends or anything.”’(3). She probably wouldn’t have gone if other people weren’t going or if it was an ‘unpopular’ person that invited her. Another theme in this book is to not give into peer pressure. Meg goes because she is talked into it by Minnie. “Minnie placed her hand over Meg’s and squeezed. “‘Look, we’re going to have fun this weekend. We need it. Okay?”’(6). Minnie payed the price by going because she was