Cadence Symbolism

The characters of this story are Cadence Sinclair, her cousins Johnny and Mirren Sinclair, Gat Patil, Aunt Carrie, Aunt Bess, Penny Sinclair, and Harris Sinclair. Cadence is thin with dyed dark brown hair. Cadence is the main character trying to regain her memory that she lost on her families private island. Johnny is the first grandson out of seven grandkids. Johnny is the first grandson out of seven grandkids. Johnny is tall athletic and blond, he is ornery and refuses to be serious. Mirren, like most Sinclair’s, is tall, blond haired blue eyed, and is bossy but is always funny about it; she is able to get mad very easily and is nearly always funny about it; she is able tog et mad very easily and is nearly always annoyed with her younger …show more content…
Gat is a family friend of Johnny’s who fell head-over-heels for Cadence the summer they were fifteen. Gat is Indian, has black windswept air, bulging muscles, and a menacing snarl. Gat is smart which is both his greatest strength and biggest downfall. Aunt Carrie is the oldest daughter to Harris, she is also tall, blond, and attractive. Carrie has two children Johnny and Will; she is also tall, blond, and attractive. Bess has four children, Mirren, Liberty, Taft, and Bonnie. Penny is the youngest daughter and mother to Cadence. She is tall, blond, attractive, and seems to be very protective over Cadence.Harris Sinclair is Cadence’s grandfather who turns his daughters against each other for the family wealth. Harris is a deteriorating old man whose good looks have faded over the years, and now has white hair. Harris uses his wealth and power to control …show more content…
The summer of Cadences fifteenth year at Beechwod she has an accident that leaves her wit memory loss and frequent migraines. Due to the accident cadence distants herself from her family and friends. After two years of trying to remember what happened in the accident and feeling that her mother will not give her answers, Cadence feels that she is ready to return to the island to get some answers. The summer of her seventeenth year Cadence and her mother return back to the island where she pushes herself to find out the truth about what really happened and how she lost her memory. During this summer she starts to remember the friction between the aunts, her mother, and grandfather. As the progresses, Cadence relies on her relationships with her cousins and Gat to finally remember the horrible night of fighting between the aunts and her grandfather, on her summer fifteen. One evening, after all the family members had had a fight, they leave the island separately. Cadence, Gat,Johnny, and Mirren stay behind, due to the anger with their grandfather a tragedy soon occurs. The climax of the story is when out of rage towards grandfather trying to control who gets possessions from his home, the four kids decide to get drunk and burn down Harris’s house. Once inside the house the four kids separate, each going to different floors of the house to start a fire. Since Cadence was drunk, she was not aware that the other three