So far throughout the book, it is tough to come up with themes or summarize the characters. The book is about two adopted boys named Jonah and Chip and they each receive a mysterious letter saying "You are one of the missing". At first they think the letters are just pranks put on them, but they then think the letters may be serious. It is hard to draw a theme from the first fifty pages, but one might be that even if you are adopted, you are still cared for by someone. Chip gets mad at the fact that he is adopted, but Jonah helps calm him down by using quotes about adoption. He says, "You know there are lots of reasons people can't take care of their own kids. Maybe your birth parents died. Maybe you're adopted from Russia or someplace like that, where things are different." (Haddix, 34)
We meet the two main characters, Chip and Jonah, whom have only known each other for a couple of months. They seem to be pretty different because Jonah accepts the fact that he is adopted, but Chip is embarrassed and gets angry. They advance the plot by trying to figure out where Chip is from by breaking into his parents' safe. To show that Jonah doesn't really care the text says, "Then he sneaked a glance to Chip, to see if this made a difference. It didn't to Jonah-he'd always known he was adopted, and as far as he was concerned, it wasn't much more of a deal than his liking mint chocolate-chip ice cream while Katherine liked orange sherbet." (Haddix, 13)
I can predict that Jonah and Chip continue to get strange letters because they are both adopted. My cousin is adopted from China, but she really doesn't even care about it. So far I like the book and think it will get better.
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