Questionable Media Month Part 21
Dec. 30th, 2018 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amatyultareChapter 21 – What Russian Novels Teach Us
I always thought Russian novels mostly taught us to be grateful we’re not Russian, but maybe I’m being too harsh.
Mr. Lord has found “the daughter of a friend of a friend” who was planning on transferring to Crudup and so she’s going to join the school and play the role of Bella even though she technically doesn’t live in the school district yet.
Sadie is crushed yet again that she won’t be Bella, but throws herself into her assistant director’s role. I personally would not be changing blocking two days before the show opened, but what do I know?
That night, as she’s conveniently on her phone deleting old text messages, she rereads the mystery text that is obviously from Mr. Ellison and realizes that it’s from Mr. Ellison. She also figures out that anna k is Anna Karenina, but still has no idea what it’s about – until later that night, when she wakes up and runs over to Alex’s house to talk to him about how Mr. Ellison needs their help because “don’t forget your friends (A)” obviously refers to Alex. (???)
Okay, so the first text message which I didn’t mention because it seemed pointless addresses a ‘Ginny’, who was Mr. Ellison’s wife except she died a few years ago. Alex decides this must be a code and someone must have been watching Mr. Ellison write the message? I would be more inclined to think he wrote it while drunk (he apparently took time off from school to ‘go fishing’) but okay. And apparently the whole thing means that Mr. Ellison is a prisoner? So Mr. Lord kidnapped Mr. Ellison? This seems slightly far-fetched.
Oh, and apparently Alex conveniently knows (fromoverhearing a conversation seeing a job advertisement circled on Mr Lord’s desk) that Mr. Lord has his heart set on a position at some larger school which requires experience directing original shows. So he’s been pushing the club in the direction of an original show, and usurping the director’s spot, from the beginning to get the experience to apply for this other job. Shock and betrayal!
Alex also reveals that the text message’s reference to ab snopes means Abner Snopes from William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’, which Alex knows because he read it in class in September. I must say, Crudup has a very advanced English program.
…Is Mr. Ellison stuck in a barn?
They’re stuck on the meaning of that part and decide to hang out, gossip, and bond for a bit. Sadie apologizes properly about the whole being-a-jerk-for-the-entire-book thing, and then asks about Lucey’s pregnancy.
“I’m not the father. I never even slept with her. I just said I was so people would stop saying Mr. Lord was the one. That was torture for Lucey…and I felt bad for her.” This is my ‘no shit’ face. Sadie is light-headed with relief.
They finally figure out that Burning Barn is a local landmark at Burning Farm, which has a trout pond where Mr. Ellison fishes.
So, they think Mr. Ellison has been kidnapped and is being held at a trout farm, and suddenly it’s urgent that they save him ASAP. (It’s been more than 24 hours since he sent those text messages, but okay, whatever.) They try calling 911, which doesn’t go well, and decide to skip school the next morning to go up to the pond and see if he’s there.
I always thought Russian novels mostly taught us to be grateful we’re not Russian, but maybe I’m being too harsh.
Mr. Lord has found “the daughter of a friend of a friend” who was planning on transferring to Crudup and so she’s going to join the school and play the role of Bella even though she technically doesn’t live in the school district yet.
Sadie is crushed yet again that she won’t be Bella, but throws herself into her assistant director’s role. I personally would not be changing blocking two days before the show opened, but what do I know?
That night, as she’s conveniently on her phone deleting old text messages, she rereads the mystery text that is obviously from Mr. Ellison and realizes that it’s from Mr. Ellison. She also figures out that anna k is Anna Karenina, but still has no idea what it’s about – until later that night, when she wakes up and runs over to Alex’s house to talk to him about how Mr. Ellison needs their help because “don’t forget your friends (A)” obviously refers to Alex. (???)
Okay, so the first text message which I didn’t mention because it seemed pointless addresses a ‘Ginny’, who was Mr. Ellison’s wife except she died a few years ago. Alex decides this must be a code and someone must have been watching Mr. Ellison write the message? I would be more inclined to think he wrote it while drunk (he apparently took time off from school to ‘go fishing’) but okay. And apparently the whole thing means that Mr. Ellison is a prisoner? So Mr. Lord kidnapped Mr. Ellison? This seems slightly far-fetched.
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Alex also reveals that the text message’s reference to ab snopes means Abner Snopes from William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’, which Alex knows because he read it in class in September. I must say, Crudup has a very advanced English program.
…Is Mr. Ellison stuck in a barn?
They’re stuck on the meaning of that part and decide to hang out, gossip, and bond for a bit. Sadie apologizes properly about the whole being-a-jerk-for-the-entire-book thing, and then asks about Lucey’s pregnancy.
“I’m not the father. I never even slept with her. I just said I was so people would stop saying Mr. Lord was the one. That was torture for Lucey…and I felt bad for her.” This is my ‘no shit’ face. Sadie is light-headed with relief.
They finally figure out that Burning Barn is a local landmark at Burning Farm, which has a trout pond where Mr. Ellison fishes.
So, they think Mr. Ellison has been kidnapped and is being held at a trout farm, and suddenly it’s urgent that they save him ASAP. (It’s been more than 24 hours since he sent those text messages, but okay, whatever.) They try calling 911, which doesn’t go well, and decide to skip school the next morning to go up to the pond and see if he’s there.
