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Ellen Raskin
1. Ellen Raskin did art work for other famous books including A Wrinkle In Time (Kruse).
2. Intended to enter the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduate with a major in journalism but instead graduated with a major in the fine arts (Kruse).
3. She created many pictures books including Nothing Ever Happens on My Block, Silly Songs and Sad, Spectacles
Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment, and It Rained, the World's Greatest Freak Show, and many more (Kruse).
4. Created many novels such as the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), Figgs and Phantoms, the Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, and the Westing Games (Kruse).
5. She won over 30 awards for her books, including the Newbery Honor (Kruse).
6.She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 13, 1928 (Kruse).
7.She is known as a self-critical, running-scared, compulsive perfectionist (Kruse).
8. She considers herself an artist before a writer (Kruse).
9. Ellen Raskin believed that the outside margins of a book should be at least equal to the width of an average eleven-year olds thumb, so the reader could read comfortably with any interference (Raskin).
10. When she was growing up, she tap danced, sang, and always read books (Kruse).
Kruse, Ginny Moore. "Ellen Raskin: Notable Wisconsin Author." UW-Madison School of Education. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Puffin, 1997. Print.
More about the Westing Game...
1. Ellen Raskin did art work for other famous books including A Wrinkle In Time (Kruse).
2. Intended to enter the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduate with a major in journalism but instead graduated with a major in the fine arts (Kruse).
3. She created many pictures books including Nothing Ever Happens on My Block, Silly Songs and Sad, Spectacles
Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment, and It Rained, the World's Greatest Freak Show, and many more (Kruse).
4. Created many novels such as the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), Figgs and Phantoms, the Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, and the Westing Games (Kruse).
5. She won over 30 awards for her books, including the Newbery Honor (Kruse).
6.She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 13, 1928 (Kruse).
7.She is known as a self-critical, running-scared, compulsive perfectionist (Kruse).
8. She considers herself an artist before a writer (Kruse).
9. Ellen Raskin believed that the outside margins of a book should be at least equal to the width of an average eleven-year olds thumb, so the reader could read comfortably with any interference (Raskin).
10. When she was growing up, she tap danced, sang, and always read books (Kruse).
Work Cited
Kruse, Ginny Moore. "Ellen Raskin: Notable Wisconsin Author." UW-Madison School of Education. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Puffin, 1997. Print.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Character List and Descriptions
1. Otis Amber
-Age 62
-Private Investigator
-Hired by Samuel Westing, Barney Northrup, and J.J. Ford.
2. Madme Sun Lin Hoo
-Thief
-James Hoo's wife,cooks for a restraunt
-Age 25
-Born in China and immigrated from China two years ago.
3. Jake Wexler
-Husband of Grace Wexler
-Podiatrist
-Graduated from Marquette
-Married for two years
-Has 2 daughters
4. Turtle Wexler
-Real name is Tabitha-Ruth Wexler
-Age 13
-Plays with the stock Market
-Attached to Flora Baumbach
-Very smart
5. Flora Baumbach
-Maiden name is Flora Miller
-Age 60
-Dressmaker
-Husband left her
-Had a retarded daughter named Rosalie
-Made dress for Violet Westing
-Attached to Turtle
6. Chritos Theodorakis
-Birdwatcher
-Age 15
-Confined to a wheelchair
-Father was a childhood sweetheart of Sam Westing's daughter
7. D. Denton Deere, Intern
-St.Joseph's Hospital, Department of Plaustic Surgery Intern
-Age 25
-Graduate of UW Medical School
-Parents live in Racine
8. Alexander Mcsouthers
-Doorman
-Samuel Westing
-Died due to one of the heirs
9. J.J.Ford
-Judge of Appellate Division of State Supreme Court
-Grew up in Westing household
-Rich
10. Grace Windsor Wexler
-Born Grace Windkloppel
-Age 42
-Claims to be an interior decorator
-She works as a hostess for James Shin Hoo's restraunt
11. James Shin Hoo
-Owns a restraunt
-age 50
-born in Chicago
-first wife died 5 years ago
-remarried after a year first wife died
-has one son
12. Berthe Erica Crow
-Started Good Salvation Soup Kitchen
-Age 57
-Mother died at childbirth
-1 year of highschool
-Married to Samuel Westing at 16
-Divorced at 40
-3 arrests for vagrancy
-Works as cleaning woman for Sunset Towers
13. Theo Theodorakis
-Age 17
-Highschool Senior
- Works in coffee shop
-Wants to be a writer
14. Doug Hoo
-Track star
-age 18
-Competes with college milers
15. Sydelle Pulaski
-Secretary to the president of Schultz Sausages
-One year of secretarial school
-Lived with widowed mother and two aunt before Sunset Towers
-Broke ankle in second bombing
-Looks for attention
-Used crutches before injured
-Mistaken for Sybil Pulaski
16. Angela Wexler
-Engaged to marry Denton Deere
-Finished college in one year
-Victim of third bombing
-Embroiders
17. Edgar Jennings Plum
-Reads Samuel Westings will
18. Violet Westing
-Samuel Westing's daughter
-Commited Suicide because of marriage
19. Barney Northrup
-Mysterious "person" who sighned letters to heirs
-Sold all heirs apartments and Sunset Towers
-Age 62
-Private Investigator
-Hired by Samuel Westing, Barney Northrup, and J.J. Ford.
2. Madme Sun Lin Hoo
-Thief
-James Hoo's wife,cooks for a restraunt
-Age 25
-Born in China and immigrated from China two years ago.
3. Jake Wexler
-Husband of Grace Wexler
-Podiatrist
-Graduated from Marquette
-Married for two years
-Has 2 daughters
4. Turtle Wexler
-Real name is Tabitha-Ruth Wexler
-Age 13
-Plays with the stock Market
-Attached to Flora Baumbach
-Very smart
5. Flora Baumbach
-Maiden name is Flora Miller
-Age 60
-Dressmaker
-Husband left her
-Had a retarded daughter named Rosalie
-Made dress for Violet Westing
-Attached to Turtle
6. Chritos Theodorakis
-Birdwatcher
-Age 15
-Confined to a wheelchair
-Father was a childhood sweetheart of Sam Westing's daughter
7. D. Denton Deere, Intern
-St.Joseph's Hospital, Department of Plaustic Surgery Intern
-Age 25
-Graduate of UW Medical School
-Parents live in Racine
8. Alexander Mcsouthers
-Doorman
-Samuel Westing
-Died due to one of the heirs
9. J.J.Ford
-Judge of Appellate Division of State Supreme Court
-Grew up in Westing household
-Rich
10. Grace Windsor Wexler
-Born Grace Windkloppel
-Age 42
-Claims to be an interior decorator
-She works as a hostess for James Shin Hoo's restraunt
11. James Shin Hoo
-Owns a restraunt
-age 50
-born in Chicago
-first wife died 5 years ago
-remarried after a year first wife died
-has one son
12. Berthe Erica Crow
-Started Good Salvation Soup Kitchen
-Age 57
-Mother died at childbirth
-1 year of highschool
-Married to Samuel Westing at 16
-Divorced at 40
-3 arrests for vagrancy
-Works as cleaning woman for Sunset Towers
13. Theo Theodorakis
-Age 17
-Highschool Senior
- Works in coffee shop
-Wants to be a writer
14. Doug Hoo
-Track star
-age 18
-Competes with college milers
15. Sydelle Pulaski
-Secretary to the president of Schultz Sausages
-One year of secretarial school
-Lived with widowed mother and two aunt before Sunset Towers
-Broke ankle in second bombing
-Looks for attention
-Used crutches before injured
-Mistaken for Sybil Pulaski
16. Angela Wexler
-Engaged to marry Denton Deere
-Finished college in one year
-Victim of third bombing
-Embroiders
17. Edgar Jennings Plum
-Reads Samuel Westings will
18. Violet Westing
-Samuel Westing's daughter
-Commited Suicide because of marriage
19. Barney Northrup
-Mysterious "person" who sighned letters to heirs
-Sold all heirs apartments and Sunset Towers
Clues
Clues
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Puffin, 1997. Print.
- Madame Sun Line Hoo and Jake Wexler-Of America and God Above
- Turtle Wexler and Flora Baumbach- Sea Mountain Am O
- Christos Theodorakis and D.Denton Deere-For Plain Grain Shed
- J.J. Ford and Alexander (Sandy) Mcsouthers- Skies Am Shining Brothers
- Grace Windsor Wexler and James Shin Hoo- Purple Waves Fruited Sea For
- Berthe Erica Crow and Otis Amber- Thy Beautiful Majesties With
- Douglas Hoo and Theo Theodorakis- On To Thee For His N
- Angela Wexler And Sydelle Pulaski- Good Hood Spacious Grace From
- Four names; Samuel Westing, Barney Northrup, Sandy Mcsouthers, and Julian R. Eastmen include four directions.
- Westing connection-Wexler-Grace is the niece of Samuel Westing
- Westing connection-Baumbach-Made Violet Westing's unworn wedding dress
- Westing connection-Hoo-Claims Westing's stole the idea of a paper made diaper
- Westing connection-Crow-Former wife of Mr.Westing
- Sandy had a bruise on his leg from Turtle kicking Barney Northrup.
- It's not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.
- Bolded words were the words that spelled out Berthe Erica Crow O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea! - Bold word was when Samuel Westing would die. The estatess is at the crossroads. The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the FOURTH.
- Mistake- Sydelle Pulaski was suppose to be Sybil Pulaski
- Bomber- Angela Wexler
- Bookie- Jake Wexler
- Queen's Sacrifice
- Mr. Westing was a wax dummy at the reading of the Will.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Puffin, 1997. Print.
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