BIBLIOGRAPHY
Northrop, M. (2011). Trapped. New York, NY: Scholastic Press. ISBN 9780545210126. 232 p.
SUMMARY
At
first, it seems like a dream come true.
School is dismissed early since the wintry weather is gaining momentum. Scotty Weems and six other students decide
not to get on the bus, and they stay a little later at their high school with
one teacher in attendance. As time
passes, the students and teacher gradually come together and realize that the
snow is falling unusually heavy with no end in sight. Cell phones are not working. Roads and lawns disappear under layers of
snow, and rides never come. The electricity
goes out which means no lights, no heat, and no cooking. Pipes freeze, and that’s not all that goes
wrong. The dream becomes a
nightmare.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Michael
Northrop, author of Trapped, tells
the story of a group of high school students who become stranded at school when
an unprecedented snowstorm hits the town.
Northrop speaks through the protagonist, Scotty Weems, a sophomore in
high school. He uses Scotty’s voice to
actually speak to the reader using a friendly and familiar conversational tone. The dialog is quick and easy to read. Readers will meet a core group of teenaged
characters with different believable personalities, and they will walk the
halls of a high school that most readers understand. Northrop successfully describes the mounting problems
the group encounters and holds the reader’s attention. Although some foreshadowing gives away
potential surprises, that same foreshadowing may also encourage some readers to
continue reading the story to discover how the pieces fit together and how it
will all end. Trapped is a unique high school survival story.
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