Constance shows up soon enough and is the small girl Sticky saw. Later, Mr. Benedict tells the four of them that there are people who are sending out messages that just appear in your head. He tells them he wants them to stop the person. After a little research they find out "the Sender" is the headmaster named Ledroptha Curtain.
The foursome ends up at the academy, two rooms apart. Benedict tells the kids that he wants them to contact him through Morse code.
The four kids meet Jackson and Jillson , two big Executives. They take them to class, which they both teach. When they finally meet Mr. Curtain, an ugly shock meets them. Benedict is the long lost twin of Mr. One works for good, and one for evil. Appalled, the children continue with their classes. The classes seem pointless, but Reynie still tries, and aces all of his tests.
Sticky and Reynie soon become Messengers , which are the kids that transmit the messages. Sadly, Constance and Kate aren't doing well, so in a complicated riddle, Mr. Benedict tells them to cheat. Sticky gets caught, but Reynie and Kate are fine, and the test scores go up. They go to a machine called " the Whisperer " and they transmit the messages. When Sticky was going, Reynie looked around to see how they could get in.
They finally finished and scurried back to Constance and Kate. Constance, Kate, Reynie, and Sticky make a plan so they can try to stop Mr. They end up poisoning the food so all the other messengers would get sick. Then, Reynie and Sticky go to their jobs.
Kate and Constance overslept, so they had to run the whole way there. The two girls ended up climbing to the tallest tower instead of taking the inside way. The two girls almost die in the attempt, but Milligan , the body guard for the foursome, swoops in to save them. It turns out that Milligan is actually Kate's father he got brainswept by Mr.
Curtain when he got kidnapped, he was a government official at the time. Curtain had run away with his Executives.
The boat soon arrives at his house, where Sticky meets his parents, and Reynie sees Miss Perumal again. Miss Perumal ends up adopting Reynie, and Mr. Benedict adopts Constance. Reynie goes home with his new mother since Reynie does not feel comfortable calling Miss Perumal "Mother," he decides on the Tamil word "Amma," and Miss Perumal's mother as "Pati".
The book starts off with Reynie going to see Kate Wetherall. He also sees Sticky and his parents. They drive to Mr. Benedict's house to find that he and Number Two have been kidnapped and that a pigeon has been sent to Rhonda Kazembe that she must reply within four days. Rhonda gave Constance a belated birthday present from Mr. Sticky, Reynie, Kate and Constance start on their perilous journey to find Mr.
They have clues from Mr. Benedict because he was planning on sending the children on a treasure hunt. Their first clue led them aboard the fastest ship in the world cleverly named "the Shortcut" and then to a castle and then to Holland where in a museum they find the " Duskwort Papers. Benedict and Mr. He is a very quick puzzle solver and can solve riddles in a matter of seconds. Reynie is described as being "average" and thus has a typical appearance of a dark haired boy with "average" features.
He is usually wearing a sweater vest, shorts and high socks with plain shoes. Reynie is something of a prodigy and a fast puzzle solver. There are numerous instances that imply that he has intense mathematical ingenuity, higher than average observational skills and is multilingual. So yeah, let's leave all that talk of isolation and alienation behind and just be happy… at least until we find out what's in store for Reynie in the next book.
Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Trenton Lee Stewart. Previous Next. The Benefits of Alone Time. And the Drawbacks Of course all that isolation, coupled with the ridicule he's received from his peers, has had a negative effect on Reynie's self-esteem.
Character Counts At his core Reynie has always been honest and kind—and clever, don't forget clever—and when it comes down to the wire, it's that part of him that loves truth and is concerned with doing the right thing that wins out.
Benedict Ledroptha Curtain S. What's Up With the Ending? Tired of ads? Join today and never see them again. Get started. After making perfect scores on his tests and expressing disappointment at not yet having achieved Messenger status, Reynie is noticed by Mr.
Curtain and invited to his office, where he sees Mr. Curtain's journal. Reynie comes up with a plan to allow the kids access to Mr. Curtain's journal, and they learn more of his brainsweeping process and the capabilities of the Whisperer. Reynie begins to doubt many of the choices he's recently made. Sure he's just trying to complete the team's mission, but he seems to keep getting other people in trouble—he worries that he's becoming a dangerous person to know.
Reynie and Sticky are made messengers and have their first session with the Whisperer. Reynie and the others sneak into Mr. Curtain's "press room," where they learn more about his plan and see crates of mini-Whisperers ready to be shipped.
Reynie and the others decline Milligan's offer to take the kids off the island, deciding instead to stay and complete their mission.
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