"Into the water" by Paula Hawkins.

On the next pages you will find some tasks to check that you have read the novel "Into the water" by Paula Hawkins. There will be also some links on different websites where you can find the additional information to complete the task.

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Test: ( The answer can be 1 word or a sentence)

• What are relationships between Jules and Nel Abbott?
• Who is Katie Whittaker?
• How did police discover about Katie and Mark's relationships?
• What did Josh and Lena did to to Mr. Henderson's house?
• How did Nel call women who died in the pool?
• Why did Katie commit suicide?
• How is Sean Townsend connecting to Nel Abbott?
• Why did Patrick Townsend told the police that he killed his wife and  Nel Abbott?

Open Response questions ( use the examples/evidences from the novel or articles):

1) Read Debbie Baird's story. What did she felt and what questions did she ask herself? How does it connect to families from novel "Into the water"?      https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2018/11/28/suicide-survivors-loss-family-friends-support/1248006002/

2) Read the article and answer the question: Did Jules Abbott consider herself as a survivor or as a victim? https://www.thelily.com/i-was-raped-call-me-a-victim-not-a-survivor/

3) Explain why do you think Katie Whittaker committed suicide? What was she worried about? Why her parents didn't notice that?

4) Why, in your opinion, Sean didn't confess to killing? What was his motives, what he was afraid of? He was a policeman, so why he didn't do the right thing?

5) Describe Lena Abbott. What kind of person she is? And why she became this person? 

6) Why did Jules hate Nel? What were her reasons? What did she misunderstand?

Test:

A - all 8 questions are answered correctly

B - 6-7 questions are answered correctly

C - 4-5 questions are answered correctly

D - 3 or less are answered correctly

F - Non of the questions are answered

Open Response questions:

A - All questions are completed correctly and provided with examples.

B - All questions are completed but there are not a good explanation.

C - Completed only half of the questions and there are no good explanation.

D - Questions are not completed or they don't have explanation at all.

F - Non of the questions are answered.

While you were reading the novel "Into the water", you saw a lot of problems that are relevant in our days. We meet a lot of suicide problems, that came from hard relationships between people and their worries. Also there are a lot of problems in people's relationships, that they can't solve because they are afraid of people's  reaction or of effects that will be after they tell the truth. These questions helped you to think about difficulties that characters faced in the book, and how they tried to solve them, in right or wrong ways.