The Watcher Blog 7

As I continued reading the book The Watcher, I discovered that the mysterious girl from the beach is named Margaret. This girl continues to watch over the same family everyday that I mentioned in the previous blog. Although she keeps her eyes on only two strangers from the beach. Everyday she leaves her family to forget about their horrible problems, and she comes to the beach to write a fairy tale story about her perspective on two strangers from the beach. One of the strangers is the lifeguard who works there, and the other is the family son about the same age as Margaret. These two boys seem perfect for her so she decides to write a story using them in it.

In this book, Margaret has pretty much the main role. She is a very unknown person by many, especially those that she watches over. In the book, the narrator mentions that her family makes her fell invincible. Therefore she does not like to be with them. Margaret is a spectator type of person and she has a very creative mind. I know this because she makes up fairytale stories about peoples lives without knowing anything about them just by observing.

The Watcher

The book I started reading is called The Watcher; By James Howe. The beginning of the book introduces a character; but they don't mention her name. The girl was at a beach and she was watching a family that was visiting the beach. The book is written in third person point of view so it is not the girl telling the book. The book also mentions that she had lost her family, her whole family, somehow. So that is the reason why she strangely stares at the family at the beach for a while.

In the very start of the book it mentions how the girl is in a sort of invincible form. "The dream of having a family once and loosing them." This sentence makes me wonder what is the story behind the girl's history? Did her family abandon her? This is why she probably keeps an eye on the family because she wishes she had hers back with her.