Chapter 3

.. Jess wakes up early in the morning. It was 5:30 am. She can't imagine, that she gets just a few hours of sleep and feels so rested. But she still hears the river and decides to explore the river. So she puts on her swimsuit, checks if somebody else is awake, and leaves the cottage.

* In the rest of the Chapter, it is described, how Jess explores the river and how the river is provided. Also how Jess feels in the river and with the nature around her.

.. At the end of the Chapter, Jess decides to swim back, because she don't want her parents to worry about her. But as she leaves the river, she feels a strange feeling. She feels observed. Is there anybody around her? She can't see anyone.


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While reading the first chapter, I felt boring. Where is the sense of writing a whole chapter about Jess in the river? But with this question, which comes to my mind, I noticed, that the river has to play a big role in the story. I mean, if a whole Chapter is used to describe the river with Jess in it, it can't be unimportant. Also the last sentence "But even as she chided herself for being fanciful, the feeling started to grow that she had not been - and was not - alone" (P. 26)
makes me thoughful. What role plays this feeling in the upcoming story? And what does that mean to the river? And also, how could she feel observed, if the next cottage is about 2 miles away and Braymouth about 40 miles?