The Second Time Around Text analysis

Authors Note: I am writing a text analysis piece on this book “The Second Time Around” to find out if Nicholas Spencer crashed, was murdered, or if he did it all on purpose.

   In the book “The Second Time Around”, by Mary Higgins Clark, a man name Nicholas Spencer’s plane “crashed.” Or that’s what they say. Everyone else thinks that he set it up because he was a fraud,  because after taking everybody’s money the charismatic con-man announced his anti cancer vaccine was flawed.  Nicholas Spencer disappeared  because he lied and stole people’s money and he does not want to go to jail.

    “He was driving home from New York to Bedford late at night and the accelerator froze in his car.”

(Vivian Powers  Pg. 112) The first possible cause for Nick Spencer’s disappearance is that he was murdered or was an accident. There could be many people out to get Nick because he stole their money when they barley had any left. Now they are poor so you would think they would have quite a grudge against him. The one thing that nobody is looking at, but everyone says is true, is that it was an accident what if it was just truly. Its not like the first time anybody died in a plane accident due to technical difficulties.    

     “The headline proclaiming Spencer’s disappearance was followed in short order with an announcement from the chairman of the board of Gen-Stone that there had been numerous setbacks in the experiments with the vaccine and that it could not be submitted to the FDA for approval in the foreseeable future.”( Carly Decarlo Pg. 1) The second reason for Nick Spencer’s disappearance would be that he staged the plane crash and ran away to Switzerland to avoid going to jail. I think that it’s a possibility because there is so much evidence of people seeing him in Switzerland and  people calling him that it all just seems sketchy.  

          

   “Anyone who had the chance to be with Nick Spencer regularly  would have been very fond of him.”  The third reason he would disappear is because he was guilty and he is really a nice guy at heart. People said in the story he was charismatic obviously the 2 wives he had loved him and his girlfriend had loved him dearly. He had a son who loved him and the people that worked with him said they were very fond of him he was a very nice loving charismatic guy so maybe he just went away so people thought he was dead and they wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore just go on with their lives.

Nick Spencer is either alive or dead and if he is alive he is either feeling really lucky because he isn’t going to jail or really guilty that he took everyone’s money. And if he is dead was it accident or murder? How will we know its not like he is around to tell you either way. But I believe  Nicholas Spencer disappeared either because he lied and stole people’s money.