Alabaster Summary

Porter Welsch was Frankie's boyfriend from October through May of the previous year. Her roommate is Trish, a blonde, friendly girl. Her boyfriend is Artie, a member of the Audio Visual Technology Club, and because of this, he carries keys to most rooms on campus. The campus is wired for wireless internet. The campus also contains a number of buildings, used and unused, and all buildings are connected by underground steam tunnels. In the main building, there are paintings of prominent writers, teachers, headmasters, and board presidents -all of them men.

Alabaster Analysis

In this chapter, readers discover more about Frankie's romantic past, as well as more information about the school campus. All of the information that E. Lockhart provides in a numbered list in this chapter is pertinent and crucial to the coming chapters. Readers should therefore pay careful attention to this...