![]() ![]() Mackie is not a teen who thinks he is different from those around him - he really is different. When Emma was four, she saw a baby taken out of her brother’s crib, and something else left. Don’t be noticed.īy the end of the first chapter, Mackie shares something his sister told him. The message is clear: don’t be different. The person who was “different” and noticed was blamed. Four pages later, and Mackie tells about iron: “ it hurts in a slow, exhausting way.” A couple of pages later, and Mackie explains how his kind preacher father told a five year old Mackie the story of Kellan Caury, a man lynched in the 1930s, back when the town had a bad spell and many children were disappearing and someone had to be blamed. ![]() I could taste it in the back of my mouth and my stomach was starting to feel iffy.” Oh, the reader thinks, he just doesn’t like the sight or smell of blood. On page five, Mackie admits that during the school blood drive “ I could smell the blood - sweet, metallic. The Plot: Mackie Doyle, sixteen, knows he’s different from the other teens in Gentry. ![]()
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