Entry Three - Interesting Part of the Story

An important part of the novel that I found very interesting, and got me intrigued by the book even more, is the part of the story where Sig remembers when he walked out to the frozen lake to see his dad's dead body there. At that moment, he remembered that he saw papers lying around the body. This was news that Wolff found interesting, because it could've had some information about the location of the gold Wolff was trying to find. Unfortunately for Wolff, Sig remembered these papers when it was dark outside, so they had to wait until morning to go get the papers. That night, Sig thought of going up to get his dad's gun that was in storage. He thought that this could have been a great time to get rid of Wolff. When Sig tried to stand up from his chair though, he was surprised to see that Wolff was awake the whole time, as he was a crossed the hall. As soon as Sig got up from his chair, Wolff pointed his gun at Sig as a warning to sit down. 

      As the morning appeared, Wolff was ready to go fetch those papers, but he didn't know what to do with Anna. As he didn't want to take both Sig and Anna out with him, Wolff asked Sig if they had any rope. Sig recalled that he did have some up in storage. Sig went up to the storage room to get rope and then, again, he thought it would have been a great time to grab the gun and shoot Wolff. As Sig thought about it longer and longer, and wrestled with the decision, Wolff came and told Sig to hurry up and get the rope. So, Sig ended up pushing the gun aside and getting the rope for Wolff. Wolff tied up Anna to a chair with the rope. After that, he and Sig went out to go get those papers that Sig said he'd remembered seeing. Sure enough, there were papers sitting right next to where the body was. When Wolff and Sig returned, they saw that Anna was no longer tied onto the chair, and that she had escaped. Nobody knew where Anna went, or what she was planning to do.

      I found this part of the book to be very "hooking." The tone was very suspenseful, and there were many cliffhangers presented. You really did not know what was going to happen next. We didn't know if Sig was going to try to do something in the middle of the night. We didn't know if he was going to grab the gun while he was in the storage room. We didn’t know if Wolff would shoot Sig, or harm Anna. We didn't know if the papers were even there where Sig had said they were. We didn't know if Anna was going to be in that chair, or what she was going to do. That made the book so much more intriguing to me, and there was no way that I could ever have stopped reading Revolver during this portion of the story.

      This weapon - a Colt handgun – represents the struggle Sig faced of deciding whether killing Wolff was the right choice, or not, in this section of the book. This could have changed the whole story immensely.