Mostly Ghostly: In the Lake of the Woods
In the Lake of the Woods is about ghosts and how the characters discover that there is no way possible to escape them, except these ghosts are not literal, they are things from the pasts of these characters. The main character, John Wade, is constantly getting flashbacks of his childhood, college. Something peculiar happens, his wife comes up missing, but the odd thing is that none of it truly makes sense and it is up to the reader to make sense of it all. As John was younger, he was abused verbally and emotionally. His father never seemed to give him the attention he has always hoped and dreamed for. He was different and his father did not like that about him. John would always be called names, eventually…show more content… There are many possible outcomes as to how Kathy could have disappeared. But O’Brien is the one who is leaving the readers the figure the mystery out for themselves. I as a reader, have found the open-ended ending to be very difficult to understand because it was hard for me to figure out what truly happened to Kathy.
The biggest mystery of all is that when John disappears, it is as if it was meant to happen which ties in with the whole possibility that they both could have planned for each of them to disappear out of thin air. The chilling part to the ending of the book, is that neither one of the characters were found. That is the irony of the book. All these things lead up to the disappearance of John and Kathy but no reader will ever truly know why or how they became missing or why they were never able to be found.
To me, I truly think that they both went missing on purpose in order to escape the past and focus on the now. They may have wanted a fresh start and leave the ghosts behind in order to move on with their lives. I don’t think either one of them want to be discovered. This could be a chance for them to truly be happy in life and not have to pretend everything is