Brookdale Mental Health Hospital

Brookdale is the mental hospital that Faith is in at the beginning of the narrative. It is here that readers learn about the murders in the cabin. It is also here that Henry first appears.

The setting symbolizes Faith’s known world. She misses it when she leaves. However, she later resists returning to the hospital. Her resistance shows her growth. She is committed to her journey and does not want to go back to her old world.

The setting works with the mystery plot structure as it gives Faith a motive for killing her therapist. He wanted to change her medication which meant that she would have had to return to Brookdale so that they could monitor her. She does not want to return there, so, given her violent history, one could believe that she killed her therapist to prevent the change in her...