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33 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSSTAGE2 Dead Man s IslandJohn EscottIntroductionThis ungraded summary is for the teacher s use only and should not be given to is also a story about the emotional development of the teenager, Carol Sanders. At the beginning of the story, she is an ordinary middle class teenage girl growing up in Hong Kong. Then the deaths in fairly quick succession of her pop idol and of her father lead her into unhappiness and a new set of friends which almost gets her into trouble with the police. So she can identify closely with the parallel experience of Jake Rosso (real name James Duncan) who got so involved in drink and drugs that he caused the death of a fi fteen-year-old girl; and with his feelings after the car accident which caused her death.
PHOTOCOPIABLE © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 34 a Suddenly I saw a face at one of the windows. b ‘Mr Ross doesn’t like visitors to the island,’ Tony said. c I knew ...
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