Matthew's Adolescents Text 4/5

Finders Keepers

By Emily Rodda

This text centres on the teenage boy protagonist Patrick, who longs for adventure and excitement. While using his computer Patrick is issued an invitation to join a game named 'Finders Keepers' on a channel he knows to be non-existent. He is pulled through barrier which defies the linear nature of time to completely different world. Patrick is given clues, hints and riddles as means to find treasures which have passed through the barrier never to be seen again.

Rodda employs the literary device foreshadowing to hint to the audience events that will occur later in the plot. In ‘Finders Keepers’, the main character Patrick is accused of stealing his sister’s sunglasses and earrings. This foreshadows the game of ‘finders keepers’ he later plays, whereby objects are lost into a universe that exists parallel to our own. As this is a book containing puzzles and riddles, it could easily be used as inspiration for a in class experience involving quizzes, students could design thier own quizzes or the whole class could be quizzed in groups using a point system.