Week 12, Analysis, The Big Sleep

       For this week, I have decided to do a close reading on the book I decided to choose and read on my own. The book I am reading is called "The Big Sleep" and I have broken it into thirds, so this week I am going to base my close reading off the first third of the book.
       The part in this story that was interesting to me was when "Riley" was outside of Arthur Geiger's house spying on it. The street he lived on was quite, and there wasn't much activity. But all of a sudden, a car pulled up to the house, walked towards the door, and within a minute there was gunshots. This personally caught me off guard and I did not see it coming. As the car fled, Riley went to the house and inspected. What he found also surprised me, as Geiger was laying there dead and Carmen was unconscious.
       After reading this, I was still kind of shocked. I knew Riley had his eye out for Geiger and was potentially going to take him out himself, but I did not see him getting killed by someone else coming. It doesn't all add up just yet since I am only a third of the way through the book, but I think it was a hint. Some sort of change in plot and I could see this causing more issues in the future of this story. This was important to understanding our characters because it shows who really is who. Who hangs out with who, and who is after each other. There has been no other parts in the text like this one, but I could see something like this happening again in the future.