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Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
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Allegedly
Novel by Tiffany D. Jackson
Prezi by Nithya Angadi
Exposition
Point of View is 1st person
Exposition
Setting:
Place: Near Brooklyn, New York
Time: Doesn't say, but is modern (early 2000's)
We meet:
Mary B. Addison (protagonist)
Mrs. Stein (caretaker)
Tara, Kisha, Marisol, Kelly, China (group home girls)
Ms. Reba (security)
Winters (parole officer)
Sarah (New Girl)
Alyssa Richardson (baby Mary killed)
Dawn Marie Cooper (Mary's Momma)
Ted
Background Info:
Mary Addison was accused of killing a baby called Alyssa at age 9, and now she's in a group home for girls who've committed crimes. She had been in baby jail for a little over six years, and has been in this group home for six months. She's approaching her sixteenth birthday in a month.
Initiating Event
Initiating Event
Mary finds out she's pregnant, but because she's a state ward, the baby belongs to the government and will be taken away from her.
The type of conflict is man vs. society.
Rising Action
Rising Action
1. Mary takes practice SATs to get into college
2. One of the home girls (Kelly) tries to kill Mary
3. The New Girl (Sarah) tells Mary that she should get a lawyer to reopen her case
4. Mary gets a lawyer (Ms. Cora) who gets right to work on the case
5. Mary's mom gets angry at her for reopening the case
6. Mary gets interviewed by a detective
Climax
Climax
Mary decides that she wants to drop the case
Falling Action
Falling Action
1. Mary tells Ms. Cora that she wants to drop the appeal
2. Ms. Cora couldn't drop the appeal because of all the evidence that they've gotten
3. Mary actually had a hand in killing Alyssa, just because she was behaving badly, but doesn't tell anyone because she still wants to keep her baby
4. Mrs. Richardson, Alyssa's mother, is writing to let Mary keep her baby
Resolution
Resolution
We find out that Mary did this to get rid of her neglective mother. Now, Mary wants Mrs. Richardson, herself, and her son to be a family, because Mary had always wanted Mrs. Richardson to be her "mother."
The theme is not everything is what is seems, because as reading the book, people learn that a lot in our world relies on truth and evidence, but sometimes things can be fake.