Emmy, the youngest sibling in the family.His respect for his mother changes throughout the story. He wants a hero in his world so that his life can become normal. Matthew, the main character of the story, writing a letter to Emmy.In the end, Matt never gives the letter to Emmy. Some of them are normal, but some contain threatening messages like "I will kill you" or "It was Murdoch's fault." The book ends with Murdoch telling Matt that he was also abused when he was younger. Murdoch advises her to run away and never come back.īut this is not the end of Nikki. Matt is about to kill Nikki when Murdoch appears. Matthew rescues Emmy, only to run into Nikki. Matthew gets a call from Emmy and she tells him where she is. Things are fine for a while until Nikki kidnaps Emmy and gets her drunk, although she is about eight years old. Matthew lives with Aunt Bobbie while Callie and Emmy live with Ben in Arlington, Massachusetts. Ben, Matthew's father (who is scared of Nikki), and Bobbie, Nikki's sister, use this opportunity to gain joint custody of Matthew, Callie, and Emmy. Julie loses the use of her legs, and Nikki ends up in jail again. Instead, she finds pleasure in tormenting Julie, a friend of Murdoch. Nikki and Rob eventually end up in jail.Īfter she gets out of jail, she recklessly drives in search of Murdoch. Nikki is angry and sends a man called Rob to brutalize Murdoch. Murdoch gets a restraining order against Nikki for constantly following and stalking him. She wants to call the Social Services and report Murdoch for abuse. Nikki is enraged and tries to blame it on Murdoch. Nikki begins to date Murdoch, but eventually they break up. Meanwhile, the first act of abuse that is shown in the book comes when Nikki throws Portuguese Seafood Paella at Matthew after Nikki finds Murdoch's address that Callie found on the Internet.
Matthew and Callie like Murdoch, and both of them want to track him down so that they can be his friend. They see Murdoch for the first time, protecting a kid from being openly abused. Callie and Matthew go to the Cumberland Farms store to get popsicles because there is a heatwave in the town in which they live. Callie is eleven, Matthew is thirteen, and Emmy is a toddler. The real story starts with Matthew and his other younger sister, Callie. The book starts out with an introduction when Matthew Walsh is writing a letter to his younger sister Emmy to tell her the story of their mother's vicious abuse. It also received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. This book was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It depicts the story of a boy and his two siblings trying to survive vicious emotional and physical abuse by their mother, Nikki. The Rules of Survival is a 2006 novel written by Nancy Werlin.
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