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Review Novel Final Grade By R.L. Stine


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The Synopsis Final Grade

            This story begins with Lily talking to her social sciences teacher, Mr. Reiner, over the B she got on a test in his class. She's seriously upset over this B because social sciences is an honors class. Plus, she has to make perfect grades in order to become valedictorian. Lily is furious because this guy obviously doesn't change about her grade. Since this is Shadyside, the solution to all problems is murder, of course.

            Julie's cousin, Graham. Lily hates Graham because he's her number one contender in the battle for valedictorian. One night the phone rings. She picks up and it's some weirdo who says "Lily, it's me. Someone who knows you, Lily. Someone who knows everything about you. Someone who watches you all the time." What happened to the old fashioned heavy breathers? Lily freaks out and asks who it is. They, of course, simply hang up.

            Lily takes off to Mr Reiner's room to have a little chat. She goes inside the room and finds it empty...or she thinks. She peeks over the side of the teacher's desk and GASP! Mr. Reiner is dead, lying in a puddle of blood. Apparently, he was pushed off of the ladder he was using to change a lightbulb in the classroom. After Mr. Reiner's funeral, Lily is all cheery and such because she thinks she has a better chance at valedictorian.

            One evening, after copious amounts of homework, Lily receives another weird phone call again. This time, the nut simply says "I know all about you, Lily and I know you got what you wanted. Didn't you?" Lily asks who it is AGAIN and the caller hangs up. Creepy telephone stalker types do not give away their identity that easily.

            She gets home at 11 PM and receives ANOTHER phone call. "I want what you want. And I'm going to help you, if you'll let me. Please, Lily, let me help."Lily doesn't bother asking who it is this time because really, what did that achieve the last time she asked? She just slams the phone down and goes to bed. What, no studying?

            The next day is the "big" Trivia Contest. Lily gets extremely nervous and screws up which results in Graham winning the contest. In the printing plant, Lily suddenly hears the printing press come to life. She looks up and screams--Graham's lifeless body is crammed inside the press. Lily, being the idiot she is, tries to pulls his body out. She hears his bones crunching and such and finally she has him free. She looks at his corpse lying on the floor, blood seeping out everywhere, and she passes out.

            She runs home and when inside her bedroom, she discovers Graham's horn-rimmed glasses lying on her bed. Scott enters the room and tells her that he put Graham's glasses on her bed. He killed Graham. He claims that he did it for Lily. He killed Graham and Mr. Reiner and it was all for Lily. Scott confesses that he loves Lily and wants her to love him back. When guys murder people in the name of love for me, I usually just give them a pat on the back and send them on their way.

            The next day, while Lily is working, Julie calls to tell Lily that she has found a clue in the Graham "investigation"--a message on the answering machine at the printing press for Graham! Lily lets it slip that Julie told her about the message and Scott reacts by saying that he will now have to kill Julie.

            Anyway, Scott and Julie wrestle a little and Scott ends up shooting Julie. He grabs her and hugs her, saying it'll all be ok. Lily happens to glance over Scott's shoulder...and sees Julie standing up and walking slowly towards them. Julie picks up a metal bar that's lying on top of the printing press and smashes Scott in the head with it. He crumples to the floor and Lily runs over to Julie, asking how is she still alive? Turns out the gun was actually a starter pistol. The girls call the police and their parents. Scott sits up, makes a gurgling noise, and falls back to the floor dead.

Characters

1. Lily Bancroft (Main Character)

            Lily Bancroft is a smart student she is very loved to study. She is study hard to being a valedictorian. She also a hard worker, she works part time in drugstore of her uncle. For example, everyday she goes to the drugstore for working and after working she have to do her homework like calculus, math, spain language, etc. Study and grade are everything for her.

2. Scott (Psychopath)

            Scott is a Lily’s friend and also her enemy as a psychopath who always make terror by phone in the night. He is cruel, bad, crazy, and psycho. Scott is fall in love with Lily and he killed those people who Lily hates in school and in a Trivia Contest. His purpose is to make Lily thanksfull to him because he had killed her rival, and his dreams to be together forever with her.

Supporting Character

1. Julie

            Julie is a Lily’s best friend. Julie is kind, soft, friendly, and caring. They are always together and never be apart. Julie always support Lily to being a valedictorian eventhough her cousin Graham is Lily’s rival. Julie also the person that find out who is the killer of her cousin. Bacause of that, her life is threatened. Scott intend to kill her.

2. Alex

            Alex is a Lily’s boyfriend. Alex is gentle, romantic, nice, and handsome. Alex love Lily so much. He never betray her. He is very patient to face Lily. They are loving each other. Until one day Alex broke up with Lily. Alex thinked that Lily was cheating with Scott.

3. Graham

            Graham is Lily’s enemy in every competition in her school. Graham is smarter than Lily. Graham is handsome, rich, smart, too much confident, conceited, sucks. Lily hates him a lot. So that is why Scott killed him in the Printed Factory.

4. Rick

            Rick is a Lily’s friend too. Rick also works in the drugstore of Lily’s uncle. He is nice person and cheerful. He also fall in love with Lily but Lily not give much attention to him. He was blamed by Lily as a person who always terror her by phone in the night. Lily thinks that Rick had killed her teacher and her friend. But it wasn’t him.

Source

Stine, R.L. 1995. Final Grade. New York: Pocket Books

                        

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