Blog 26: Dishonesty Breeds Dishonesty/ Ch. 17

I do sympathize with Mrs. Creed at this point of the story. Her son is missing. She received a phone call that only assuredly made it worse for her. She might not be a well liked person, she might not be a terrific mother, but she is in a horrifying predicament. She wants answers. I have sympathy for so many of the characters in this story except possibly Alex. Everyone else has some turmoil going on. Almost all of the characters in the story are trying to find answers to Chris' disappearance. However, not all are on the right track, including the police. At this point I feel Bo Richardson and Ali made the greatest headway in finding Chris by locating the diary and finding the name Isabella Karzden whom Chris was infatuated with. When Chief Bowen came to arrest Bo, Torey screamed out "You stupid people, you know he didn't kill anybody! You just have to find some way to keep your own screwed-up version of reality going-" (Ucci pgs. 222-223). Torey has had the opportunity to view the people and their situations very differently and begins to question so much of what he believed previously. He honestly wants to find Chris.