Character by Luciano Oliva
Word CloudFor the word cloud I wanted to show all of Nick's emotions and how they changed throughout the book. He went from the perfect loving husband, then he started to become more cold and less loving, then he got a mistress and became completely detached from Amy , then after Amy left he became confused and determined to get Amy back.
You don't have to answer, but I'm going to guess no. Amy was not happy. |
Head, Hands, HeartFor head I made a puzzle of the many clues and big parts of the story that nick was thinking of and trying to connect. So I made a puzzle of all the things Nick was putting together. For example why Amy tried to buy a gun, the clues, the diary, the stuff in the shack, who kidnapped Amy, what to do with the weird google searches, the debt, etc. "For whatever reason. I'm not even going to ask. I can guess, but I'm not going to ask. But I know you must know this: Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God" (38, 110). This quote shows how Nick doesn't know what is going on with Amy as he tries to put together the puzzle.
HandsFor hands I wanted to show how Nick was constantly battling with the public and news about the case. I had on the fingers news headlines about the Nick case and how it progressed from a kidnapping, to investigating, to Nick possibly being a killer, to Nick being to calm for his wife to be missing and people thinking he killed his wife, to Amy returning and it turned out ok. I also drew the different media like Ellen Abbot or the YouTube video that went out of Nick asking Amy to come home. I just wanted to show his struggle with the public and how he had to handle it throughout the story.
"I'm too self-conscious […] I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm." (2,6) This was a quote shows all the little things Nick had to worry about being in front of the press. |
AmyFor this picture it is half of Amy before she framed nick and half of Amy after she framed nick. On the right half Amy still has her long blonde hair, she has her hand on her hip like she was when she greeted nick on their first anniversary. She was still seemly happy and a good wife.
On the left however her hair is short and brown. This was when she cut and dyed her hair so she wouldn't look so much like herself. She is also holding the knife that she used to kill Desi with. This shows the more psychotic side of Amy and how she went to the extremes to solve her problems. I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan. (32.14) This shows Amy and her psychotic planning to commit murder. HeartFor heart I drew out a spit heart between Amy and Andie because at one point Nick loved both of them and needed to carefully spend time with each of them. Then he needed to choose between one or the other when the media was starting to dig further into Nick's personal life. I wrote some words about both of them that Nick liked. "It's not an easy thing, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months." (16,25)
This shows how he is having troubles staying with Amy for so long and how he was starting to think of the past and longing for the first love, this led into him going out with Andie. |