Step by Wicked Step

Syazwan, Haziq, Isyraf, Ameer

Chapter 1: Introduction

On a wild and stormy night, five students, Claudia, Colin, Ralph, Pixie and Robbo, are sent ahead on a school trip to Old HarwickHall.

In the dark of the night, with no electricity due to the raging storm, Colin spots a door which leads to an old, abandoned room where they discover a diary of a young boy by the name of Richard Clayton Harwick.

Prior to reading the diary, they wonder why they are put together in the minibus. They achieved the answer after eavesdropping on Miss O'Dell and Mr. Plumley's conversation. Pixie reads Richard's diary out loud for the other children to hear.

Chapter 2: Richard’s Story

1• Richard Clayton Harwick's father is ill and this worries everyone in Harwick Hall. Before his

death, he tells Richard to take care of his mother and sister, Lilith and Charlotte Harwick.

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• Later in the story, Lilith marries Reverend Coldstone, an anglican priest (he is not Catholic because he is not addressed Father, and he marries Lilith, Richard's Mother. Roman Catholic Priests cannot marry) who is cruel towards Richard but is very nice towards Charlotte. Richard is then sent to a boarding school called Mordanger School, where he is treated like a prisoner.

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• He finally returns home after reading a print which states that solicitors have something to his advantage back home, discovering from a letter Charlotte had written before her death, that his family had been searching for him until the end of their lives and how Reverend Coldstonehad turned out to be a very bad man.

Settings

Chapter 1 Chapter 2

•The tower room at Old Harwick Hall

Place •Old Harwick Hall •Mordanger School

•Various ports

•Night Time •Different times and eras

Plot

Chapter 1

Plot

Chapter 2

Characters

Richard

• Selfish

• He ran away rather than face the problems

Lily Harwick

• Weak woman who could not stand up for her son

• Died of a broken heart

Mr. Coldstone

• He was cold and cruel

• He bullied his wife because of his anger .

Charlotte Harwick

• She accepted her stepfather more easily & she love her brother

• She married Charles Devere because he was wealthy & she died of fever at child birth .

Lucy

• She was a house maid & she was a soft-hearted person who felt sorry for Richard

• She was kind to Richard & she was afraid of ghost and easily frightened

George Digby

• He was a gardener & was friendly and kind to Richard

• He taught Richard to whittle wooden animals & hopeful that Richard would return .

Themes

• Richard had a difficult time adjusting to his stepfather so he ran away

• This decision caused the heartbreak of entire family

Making a decision

• Lily Harwick was a weak woman. She did not protect her son from his stepfather .

• Richard promise his father that he would look after his family.

Lack of responsibility

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