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Book Report On Beyond By Graham Mcnamee

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Beyond by Graham Mcnamee was a fantastic book. Beyond was an extremely suspenseful and mysterious book. Jane, the protagonist, is a girl from a small town in Canada, and she has endured a bunch in her life. She got electrocuted, shot in the head with a nail, drank drain cleaner, and she was born without a heartbeat. A spirt forced her to shoot herself with a nail gun, drink drain cleaner, and touch a power line. This ghost is her shadow; this ghost attached himself to her since she almost died, when she was born. When the doctors brought Jane back to life, the ghost attaches himself to her, and said that Jane is his. However, Leo, the ghost, wants her dead, so they can be together in the after life. Leo was murdered by Starks when he was thirteen …show more content…

Leo is a psychopath and is willing to do anything. He was a nice kid, but what Starks did to him changed him. Although he is evil when he arrives to the light; Leo stars to burn. All the secrets he concealed were released, and he went to Heaven. Leo becomes the courteous and sweet kid he was when he was an adolescent. If Leo and Jane were the same age; I believe that they would be great friends. Jane and Leo are similar in character since they both are into exploring places, both are caring, and they both weren’t in the popular groups. They might’ve even began dating which is what Leo wanted, but they couldn’t since he dead. The author didn’t explain much about Leo since he was murdered as a child. The author just gave us a dark vibe about him until the end then Leo murders Starks. Although Leo forced Jane to sprint to Starks log cabin. However Leo felt guilty, and murders Starks by basically punching a hole in his heart. Leo showed his caring side at this part and showed that he would do anything for her. Although he kills Starks; Jane also dies, but Billy calls an ambulance and the paramedics saved her …show more content…

She doesn’t let any circumstance get to her. Jane wasn’t ideally a popular girl. She only had one friend which was Lexie. The people that attended Jane’s school perpetually bullied her. When she got a nail shot in her head; they said that she got “drilled” and went on to say other rude comments about her. She didn’t let any of those comments get in her head, and she kept living her life. If someone did say something to her; she would say something back to them. However Jane wouldn’t fight anyone since she isn’t very muscular and isn’t very big in size. I would say she is a really strong character

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