Reflection 9

Edge of the seat moments from Safe Haven:

• When Alex and Katie first trust each other and become friends. In this secen Alexs son Josh falls into the creek behind Alex's story and is drownding.The suddeness of this sceen cause your heart to beat and for you to be as scared as Alex is. Making this scence a edge of a seat one.

"He flung open the back door, adrenaline surging through his system as he hurdded a row of bushes, taking a short cut to the dock. He hit the wooden planks at full speed. As he launched  him self at the dock, Alex could see Josh chocking in the water, his arms thrashing." (Sparks. 28)

• The next moment is when katie is describing "her friends"( really its Katies) past to Jo. This is the first time that Katie has opend up to anyone about her self, and because of the serousness of the past and this scene it makes you feel right on the edge of your seat wanting to comfert her.

" ' And she couldn't tell anyone anything,because her afamily was gone and she knew the police wouldn't do anything.If he so much as suspected anything, he would kill her.So she stole and saved and found coins in the sofa cushions and in the washing machine. She hid the money in a plastic bag that she put beneath a flowerpot, and every time he went outside she was sure he would find it. It took so long to get the money she needed because she had to have enough to get far away so that he'd never find her. So that she could start over again.'
 Katie wasn't aware of when it had happend, but she realized that Jo had taken her hand and she was no longer watching her self from across the room. She could tast the salt on her lips and imagined that her soul was leaking out. " (66)

• The next moment is When Alex and Katie have finally accepted one another Alex, told katie in the past scen that he knew of her abusive past, and that he only waited until she was ready to talk. This moment after Katie felt scared and he was there patiencently waiting for her. This scene puts me on the edge of the sceat, because its so perfect and still i feel that sparks is alowing me to peak into this small and perfect moment in their ever cachotic lives.

" WIth the last of the sunlight fading from the horizon, twilight descended,turning the flat,cloudless sky a pale violet. They stood at the railing and Alex watched as the southern breeze gently lifted wayward strands of her hair. Her skin took on a peachy glow; he saw the subtle rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. " (124 )