The Twin And The Island Sparknotes

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Journal # 4
Name: Seri Krenik
Teacher Name: Mrs. Huston Z
Due date: 4/28/23
Introduction
I am reading The Twin and The Island by Natasha Preston , in the book The Twin and I am on pages 242/375, in the book The Island and I am on pages 303/303. The book The Twin is about a girl named Ivy who has to experience a big change; because of the recent death of her mother, her twin sister comes to live with her and her father. While at first, everything about her sister seems normal, and she just seemed like a normal grieving teen, slowly, overtime, Ivy starts to notice a big change from her normal behavior. Could she just be paranoid? Or is her sister up to something? Meanwhile, The Island is about six influencers who are

The first characteristic that I had seen Iris portray is that she is incredibly Sneaky. Half-way through the book, after arriving at school and staring at her twin while she talks to her friend group, one of Ivy’s best friends comes over and starts up a conversation with her, at the beginning of their conversation, Sophie once again tells Ivy that she thinks that she is acting off, to which Ivy contemplates telling her the concerns that she holds for her sister; “I can’t risk being told I’m insane. I think Iris is trying to imitate me. Trying to be me. She wears my clothes though she has her own. And now she’s cut her super-long hair that she’s been so precious about since she was six years old.” (Preston 242). Over the course of the time that Iris has stayed with Ivy and her father, Ivy thinks that she has slowly, but successfully trying to become her replacement. Ivy wants to share this with her friend Sophie, but she is afraid that she will be seen as either extremely paranoid and crazy, or jealous of her sister. After realizing these things, Ivy ends up not telling Sophie her suspicions about Iris. The second characteristic that I had seen Iris portray is that she is a perfectionist. In the middle of the book, after Ivy decides to sneak into Iris’s room while she is out with her friends, she takes note of how Iris normally organizes herself and her belongings, and how the state of her closet and drawer were not in there normal organized state; “Iris doesn’t leave things lying around or forget to close something. She makes every move and speaks every sentence with careful planning.” ( Preston 217). This further supports Ivy’s point that something suspicious is going on with Iris. For someone who normally dresses to the nines and not only organizes herself in a seemingly perfect way