A Simple Plan Essay, Research Paper

The book all starts when three men, Hank, Jacob, and Lou they are

driving and to avoid a fox they end up running into a fence. They got out to

hunt the fox but then while looking for it, they find a plane in the nature

preserve. So Hank goes inside and finds a dead pilot and a bag full of money,

four point eight million dollars. After they find it they agree to wait to see

if anyone is looking for it and they will wait to split it up three ways in the

spring when the plane would be discovered. The next day Hank and Jacob go

back to put five hundred thousand back in the plane, to look like he had not

been robbed, but then Dwight Pederson came on his snowmobile and was

about to find the plane so Jacob beat him up. He thought he killed Pederson

but he hadn’t so when they went to make it look like an accident Hank had to

finish him off and then throw him in the river. They end up getting away

with it and everybody thought it was just an accident.

After a while Lou starts to get anxious for the money and he

threatens Hank that if he does not give him the share of the money then he

was going to turn Jacob and him in for killing Pederson. So then Hank and

Jacob set up Lou and made it look like he killed Pederson, and they said you

wait till spring for his share and the tape would not be released. Then Lou

flipped and got his shotgun and was going to kill Hank if he did not give him

the tape, so he was about to shoot Hank and Jacob killed Lou with his rifle.

Then Nancy came down and thought they did it on purpose and she got her

gun and went to kill Hank so Hank shot her with Lou’s shotgun. Then he went

to Sonny Major’s house and told him to go to Lou’s house quick and when he

did they undressed him and shot him upstairs with Nancy. Jacob was

starting to freak out and wanted to tell the truth so Hank could not take

the risk so he killed him. When the cops arrived Hank had made it look like

Lou came home drunk and found Nancy and Sonny sleeping together so he

killed both of them and then on his way down, Hank and Jacob had come

back when they heard the gunshots, and Lou shot Jacob and Hank killed Lou

in self-defense. They went through all of this trouble just to keep the

money and at the end they find out it was from a kidnapping and that the

FBI had written down twenty percent of the bills serial numbers, so Hank

and Sarah would never know which ones were safe so they burned all of the

money. They also ended up having two children but there first born drowned

in a pool but was revived. She would never be the same though she had

suffered severe brain damage.

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A Simple Plan

Author:Scott Smith