The Setting of the novel takes place in Boston, Back Bay on Sixty-three Fremont Street
             The characters are Susan Selky, Alexander's mother and a psychiatrist, Alexander Graham Selky Jr, a 6 year old boy, the son of Susan Selky, Graham Selky, the father of Alex, and the ex-husband of Susan, Jocelyn, Susan's best friend who's little daughter Justine go to school with Alex, Detective Al Menetti, the detective who help investigates the missing of Alex, Malvina Roberts, the lady who tips the people off where Alex is.
             The conflict happens when Susan gets this lead from a crazy lady named Malvina Roberts who calls in from Connecticut and says that the devil has Alex next door in her neighbors house. The police doesn't believe her at first. Then Detective Menetti tells Susan and she says check it out it might be the real lead. Menetti then goes over to Connecticut and find out if there really is a boy there. He goes over to the house that Malvina tells him. Then this guy come with a little boy, Alex's description. Menetti then watches them . Then he waits until they go in the house, then ring the doorbell and arrests the man and brings Alex home.
             The internal conflict is when Susan is fighting with herself, that if she hadn't trust Alex so much, and make him walk him to school by himself that maybe he would be home. The external conflict is when Susan blames Graham for losing Alex because if he was home she could have walked him to school and this wouldn't have happened.
             The plot of the novel is Susan Selky, she lets her little boy Alex walk to school and from because he is a responsible 6 year old boy. When Alex leaves the house in the morning he never returns home. Susan gets scared, and calls Jocelyn, her friend and asks if her daughter saw Alex in school. Jocelyn says no, Alex wasn't in school. Susan then calls the police and tells th
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