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Summary: Chapter 16
Notes From the Midnight Driver Exposition Characters: Alex Laurie(Alex best friend) Sol Lewis Judge trent Alex's Parents Setting: The Hospital Alex's House Nursing Home Alex gets drunk one night and tries to drive to his dad's house to see him cheat- ing on his mom, he crashes. Notes From The Midnight Driver Chapters 12-13 Summary & Analysis Chapter 12 Summary: 'The Ball Falls' As New Year's Eve arrives, Alex feels that he is in a 'fine mood' (99), but then everything goes wrong. First, he argues with his mom in the morning when she gets up after a bad date.
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Thomas wakes Grandma up in the middle of the night and writes on her palm that he wants to go get her magazines. She tells him to take a suitcase so he can bring her one of everything. She wants to remember this moment in detail because she's forgotten so many important details, like the last thing her father said to her.
Grandma packs a suitcase with the typewriter and paper and locks up the house. She watches Thomas at the airport. She doesn't know if she loves him, but she loves not being alone. She approaches him. He explains that Grandma makes him remember and confesses that Anna was pregnant. Grandma tells him she knew, and she's glad that he knew too. Grandma tells him about the moment Anna told her she was pregnant. Thomas confesses that he's been seeing Oskar, which Grandma also knew. He tells her he buried the letters he never sent and the key to her apartment. She tries to force him to tell her about the last time he saw Anna, but he can't. They sit in the airport. He doesn't want to go home or leave, so she suggests staying there.
Grandma focuses on the paper in the typewriter instead of Thomas's face to choose Oskar over him.
Grandma writes to Oskar about her last night with Anna. She wanted to tell Anna she loved her, but Anna was asleep. Grandma believed she would have another night to tell Anna so saying it was unnecessary. She tells Oskar it's always necessary.
Summary: Chapter 17
Ron has dinner with Oskar and his mom. Oskar asks Ron why he doesn't have a family, and Oskar's mom is horrified. Ron explains that his wife and daughter died in a car accident. He met Oskar's mom at a grief support group.
At midnight, Gerald, the limo driver, picks Oskar and Thomas up and drives them to the cemetery. When they get to the part of the bridge that's not in any borough, Oskar opens the sun roof and sticks his head out. He takes pictures of the stars.
- Notes From The Midnight Driver Summary Sparknotes Pdf
- Notes From The Midnight Driver Summary Sparknotes Summary
Summary: Chapter 16
Notes From the Midnight Driver Exposition Characters: Alex Laurie(Alex best friend) Sol Lewis Judge trent Alex's Parents Setting: The Hospital Alex's House Nursing Home Alex gets drunk one night and tries to drive to his dad's house to see him cheat- ing on his mom, he crashes. Notes From The Midnight Driver Chapters 12-13 Summary & Analysis Chapter 12 Summary: 'The Ball Falls' As New Year's Eve arrives, Alex feels that he is in a 'fine mood' (99), but then everything goes wrong. First, he argues with his mom in the morning when she gets up after a bad date.
Notes From The Midnight Driver Summary Sparknotes Pdf
Thomas wakes Grandma up in the middle of the night and writes on her palm that he wants to go get her magazines. She tells him to take a suitcase so he can bring her one of everything. She wants to remember this moment in detail because she's forgotten so many important details, like the last thing her father said to her.
Grandma packs a suitcase with the typewriter and paper and locks up the house. She watches Thomas at the airport. She doesn't know if she loves him, but she loves not being alone. She approaches him. He explains that Grandma makes him remember and confesses that Anna was pregnant. Grandma tells him she knew, and she's glad that he knew too. Grandma tells him about the moment Anna told her she was pregnant. Thomas confesses that he's been seeing Oskar, which Grandma also knew. He tells her he buried the letters he never sent and the key to her apartment. She tries to force him to tell her about the last time he saw Anna, but he can't. They sit in the airport. He doesn't want to go home or leave, so she suggests staying there.
Grandma focuses on the paper in the typewriter instead of Thomas's face to choose Oskar over him.
Grandma writes to Oskar about her last night with Anna. She wanted to tell Anna she loved her, but Anna was asleep. Grandma believed she would have another night to tell Anna so saying it was unnecessary. She tells Oskar it's always necessary.
Summary: Chapter 17
Ron has dinner with Oskar and his mom. Oskar asks Ron why he doesn't have a family, and Oskar's mom is horrified. Ron explains that his wife and daughter died in a car accident. He met Oskar's mom at a grief support group.
At midnight, Gerald, the limo driver, picks Oskar and Thomas up and drives them to the cemetery. When they get to the part of the bridge that's not in any borough, Oskar opens the sun roof and sticks his head out. He takes pictures of the stars.
Notes From The Midnight Driver Summary Sparknotes Summary
Also, when Laurie was told about Sol and how he treated Alex, she insisted on helping Alex deal with him by going with him to the elderly home on page 66-67. Laurie always made sure her best friend Alex was on the right path. Laurie was a really good influence in Alex's life after one stupid thing she didn't want him to do another, on page 65-68 Laurie created a plan to help Alex, she convinced Alex's mom that she would take Alex on a bus and come with him to the nursing home this would keep him out of trouble and help him out with getting extra hours in community service. Also when lecturing Alex she said 'Why didn't you call me on Friday night if you were planning on to do something so half-witted' this shows that Laurie would've tried to convince Alex out of his choice and try to tell him that it's wrong if he did call. Laurie is just a small girl who's not scared of anything. She helped her friend from the teasing of a high school jock and coming with him to deal with a grumpy elderly. She showed that she can help others by helping her friend Alex with his problems. Laurie is really attached to Alex, she acts like a moral compass for him, separating the wrong from the good. Laurie's decisions in the book always benefitted Alex in doing the right thing and always aimed towards keeping
