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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Martin, Jasper, Martin's entitled A Fraction of the Whole?
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conversations.value: A Fraction of the Whole: A Fraction of the Whole uses a multi-perspective narrative, often going back in time to show Martin's perspective on events before returning to Jasper's story in the present.\nThe framing narrative of the novel is written from the perspective of Jasper, writing secretly from the prison cell he is incarcerated in for an initially undisclosed crime.\nThe story jumps back to when Jasper was five, and was pulled out of school by his father, Martin.\nRather than using a typical school curriculum, Martin teaches his son his beliefs about how life is, how it should be, and how to survive it.\nMartin gives Jasper a highly detailed account of his own childhood.\nHe has dealt with many problems in his life, from Terry's criminal behavior, to Martin's own depression, to his four year coma, to his mother poisoning him while she went mad from fear of her terminal cancer.\nMartin clearly remembers telling his brother that the two criminal kids, whom Terry would later join, are cheating.\nThese kids had been beating Martin up, and he knows that telling Terry this lie would make him go after them.\nTerry does go after the bullies, and they stab him in the leg.\nThis injury cripples Terry for life and renders him incapable of playing sports.\nMartin comes up with the idea of a suggestion box, where everyone in town is welcome to enter recommendations for town life.\nIt starts off well, but soon everyone in town is criticized by someone else.\nEach slip is anonymous, making it impossible for anyone to get mad, except at the person who invented the suggestion box.\nNo one ever finds out that it was Martin.\nFinally, there is the loss of Martin's true love, Caroline, to Terry.\nAfter Terry is imprisoned, she leaves the town and visits every now and then.\nMartin's mother is diagnosed with Cancer, and Martin vows that he won't leave her, effectively trapping himself in the town he hates.\nOnce the town burns down, killing his mother and stepfather, and burning down the prison, he leaves town for good, having wanted to for so many years.\nBefore he leaves he collects what he believes to be his brother's ashes from the prison, and scatters them in a puddle.\nMartin leaves his hometown in Australia for Paris.\nHe has picked Paris because he figures that he may as well start where he believes Caroline Potts to be.\nHe has traced the postcard he has received from her to the original address.\nUpon arrival, he learns that she has recently moved, and no one is quite sure where.\nMartin decides to live in Paris, where he meets two important people.\nEddie comes off as a very friendly Thai who loves to take pictures and constantly takes Martin's photograph.\nEddie is not the type of person Martin likes and he decides never to see him again but unfortunately for Martin, Eddie becomes his dearest and longest friend.\nEddie is always there for Martin, giving him jobs and money when he needs it.\nMartin also meets Astrid (real name unknown) in a café.\nHe finds her extremely attractive and assumes that his affair with her will be a one night stand, but in fact it becomes the exact opposite.\nAstrid and Martin move in together, and Astrid unexpectedly becomes pregnant.\nDuring her pregnancy, Astrid becomes crazy, repeatedly painting a violent and horrific face and trying to converse with God.\nShe becomes angry when God does not respond, so Martin starts pretending to be him, answering her questions while hiding in the bathroom.\nHe learns a great deal about her, and realizes that she is becoming suicidal.\nAfter giving birth to Jasper, Astrid commits suicide.\nEddie continues to help the Dean family financially.\nThe Deans meet another central character, Anouk.\nAlthough they meet on undesirable grounds (Anouk vandalizes Martin's car), they become close family friends, as Martin hires Anouk to clean for them.\nMartin is deemed mentally unstable and is sent to mental institution.\nJasper (Martin's child with Astrid) is sent to a foster home against his will.\nWhen Martin is released, he buys a rotting, broken-down house in the middle of nowhere.\nMartin builds a house and labyrinth on the property to have maximum privacy.\nJasper, in high school, meets the Towering Inferno (real name unknown).\nShe is Jasper's first girlfriend, but everything ends in shambles when Jasper discovers that she is having an affair with her ex-boyfriend, Brian the newscaster.\nFinally, with the assistance of Anouk, Martin finds his purpose in life: to tell his ideas.\nMartin comes up with a way to make everyone in Australia a millionaire, using a system similar to a lottery.\nHe proposes the idea to Anouk, who helps get it approved by the most wealthy man in Australia and his son, both of whom are in charge of the nation's network of tabloids and paparazzi artists.\nAnouk eventually marries Oscar, the son.\nThey put him on the covers of all the newspapers.\nMartin becomes the most beloved person in the country, except for Terry.\nPeople often refer to Martin in terms of being Terry's brother.\nThis annoys Martin, but he is happy to know he is famous now.\nOut of the few randomly selected winners, Caroline, his true love from his childhood, is picked.\nRight before the ceremony, they get engaged, as do Anouk and the son of the wealthy man who had helped them.\nWhile presenting the first millionaires, Martin declares that he is running for prime minister.\nBeing beloved so much despite his foul speech, he is elected by a landslide.\nWith Eddie at his side helping with the lottery, it seems that nothing can go wrong, but eventually everything does.\nSoon after Martin's victory, he, Jasper and Caroline are living happily.\nIt is discovered that Eddie has committed fraud; he has fixed the whole idea, setting it up so Caroline and all of Eddie's friends would win.\nWhen the story gets out, Martin becomes the most hated man in Australia, and is forced to leave the country.\nAfter escaping to Thailand, with Eddie leading the way, Jasper, Caroline and Martin have no idea where they are going.\nThey had never suspected that someone had been paying Eddie to be friendly to Jasper and Martin, yet he has hated them the entire time.\nIt turns out that Terry has been alive after all.\nHe has not been killed in the fire, but instead has just run away and employed Eddie to give money to the Deans and take photographs.\nTerry has become very fat, and is the head of an entire criminal group.\nHe has also forgotten about love, but instead has three prostitutes as friends whom he hires almost every night.\nSoon afterwards it is revealed that Caroline is having an affair with Terry.\nMartin is dying of cancer, Eddie has gone completely crazy and Jasper tries to get the family back together.\nEddie, desperate to make his dead parents proud, tries to resume his pre-Dean career of being a doctor, but finds that the local population are happy with their existing doctor and his apprentice.\nHe poisons them and upon discovery the village turn on Eddie and all of the Deans.\nEddie and Caroline are killed.\nWith Martin nearly dead from his cancer, he says he wants to die in Australia and Jasper decides to go with him.\nTerry arranges it for Jasper and Martin to be smuggled back to Australia on a smuggling boat.\nOn their return Jasper and Martin bond for the very first time.\nThey enjoy each other's company and understand each other better.\nJust when Australia comes in sight, Martin dies smiling, and his dead body is thrown overboard, just as he had requested.\nJasper is arrested on the boat's arrival by immigration and Jasper ends up in a detention center, grieving for his father.\nEventually Jasper reveals who he is and he is released.\nThe authorities take him to a storage room where Martin's belongings have been stored.\nJasper is convinced it is mostly junk but discovers Martin's diaries, on which some of the book is based, and paintings of a face painted by his mother.\nHe realizes he's seen this face before and has been haunted by it.\nJasper also realizes that he will not become his father - his greatest fear - because his mother is part of him as well.\nHe sets off to Europe in search of his mother's past, with financial assistance from Anouk who has become the richest woman in Australia.
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conversations.value: \nThe framing narrative of the novel is written from the perspective of Jasper, writing secretly from the prison cell he is incarcerated in for an initially undisclosed crime.\nThe story jumps back to when Jasper was five, and was pulled out of school by his father, Martin.\nRather than using a typical school curriculum, Martin teaches his son his beliefs about how life is, how it should be, and how to survive it.\nMartin gives Jasper a highly detailed account of his own childhood.\nHe has dealt with many problems in his life, from Terry's criminal behavior, to Martin's own depression, to his four year coma, to his mother poisoning him while she went mad from fear of her terminal cancer.\nMartin clearly remembers telling his brother that the two criminal kids, whom Terry would later join, are cheating.\nThese kids had been beating Martin up, and he knows that telling Terry this lie would make him go after them.\nTerry does go after the bullies, and they stab him in the leg.\nThis injury cripples Terry for life and renders him incapable of playing sports.\nMartin comes up with the idea of a suggestion box, where everyone in town is welcome to enter recommendations for town life.\nIt starts off well, but soon everyone in town is criticized by someone else.\nEach slip is anonymous, making it impossible for anyone to get mad, except at the person who invented the suggestion box.\nNo one ever finds out that it was Martin.\nFinally, there is the loss of Martin's true love, Caroline, to Terry.\nAfter Terry is imprisoned, she leaves the town and visits every now and then.\nMartin's mother is diagnosed with Cancer, and Martin vows that he won't leave her, effectively trapping himself in the town he hates.\nOnce the town burns down, killing his mother and stepfather, and burning down the prison, he leaves town for good, having wanted to for so many years.\nBefore he leaves he collects what he believes to be his brother's ashes from the prison, and scatters them in a puddle.\nMartin leaves his hometown in Australia for Paris.\nHe has picked Paris because he figures that he may as well start where he believes Caroline Potts to be.\nHe has traced the postcard he has received from her to the original address.\nUpon arrival, he learns that she has recently moved, and no one is quite sure where.\nMartin decides to live in Paris, where he meets two important people.\nEddie comes off as a very friendly Thai who loves to take pictures and constantly takes Martin's photograph.\nEddie is not the type of person Martin likes and he decides never to see him again but unfortunately for Martin, Eddie becomes his dearest and longest friend.\nEddie is always there for Martin, giving him jobs and money when he needs it.\nMartin also meets Astrid (real name unknown) in a café.\nHe finds her extremely attractive and assumes that his affair with her will be a one night stand, but in fact it becomes the exact opposite.\nAstrid and Martin move in together, and Astrid unexpectedly becomes pregnant.\nDuring her pregnancy, Astrid becomes crazy, repeatedly painting a violent and horrific face and trying to converse with God.\nShe becomes angry when God does not respond, so Martin starts pretending to be him, answering her questions while hiding in the bathroom.\nHe learns a great deal about her, and realizes that she is becoming suicidal.\nAfter giving birth to Jasper, Astrid commits suicide.\nEddie continues to help the Dean family financially.\nThe Deans meet another central character, Anouk.\nAlthough they meet on undesirable grounds (Anouk vandalizes Martin's car), they become close family friends, as Martin hires Anouk to clean for them.\nMartin is deemed mentally unstable and is sent to mental institution.\nJasper (Martin's child with Astrid) is sent to a foster home against his will.\nWhen Martin is released, he buys a rotting, broken-down house in the middle of nowhere.\nMartin builds a house and labyrinth on the property to have maximum privacy.\nJasper, in high school, meets the Towering Inferno (real name unknown).\nShe is Jasper's first girlfriend, but everything ends in shambles when Jasper discovers that she is having an affair with her ex-boyfriend, Brian the newscaster.\nFinally, with the assistance of Anouk, Martin finds his purpose in life: to tell his ideas.\nMartin comes up with a way to make everyone in Australia a millionaire, using a system similar to a lottery.\nHe proposes the idea to Anouk, who helps get it approved by the most wealthy man in Australia and his son, both of whom are in charge of the nation's network of tabloids and paparazzi artists.\nAnouk eventually marries Oscar, the son.\nThey put him on the covers of all the newspapers.\nMartin becomes the most beloved person in the country, except for Terry.\nPeople often refer to Martin in terms of being Terry's brother.\nThis annoys Martin, but he is happy to know he is famous now.\nOut of the few randomly selected winners, Caroline, his true love from his childhood, is picked.\nRight before the ceremony, they get engaged, as do Anouk and the son of the wealthy man who had helped them.\nWhile presenting the first millionaires, Martin declares that he is running for prime minister.\nBeing beloved so much despite his foul speech, he is elected by a landslide.\nWith Eddie at his side helping with the lottery, it seems that nothing can go wrong, but eventually everything does.\nSoon after Martin's victory, he, Jasper and Caroline are living happily.\nIt is discovered that Eddie has committed fraud; he has fixed the whole idea, setting it up so Caroline and all of Eddie's friends would win.\nWhen the story gets out, Martin becomes the most hated man in Australia, and is forced to leave the country.\nAfter escaping to Thailand, with Eddie leading the way, Jasper, Caroline and Martin have no idea where they are going.\nThey had never suspected that someone had been paying Eddie to be friendly to Jasper and Martin, yet he has hated them the entire time.\nIt turns out that Terry has been alive after all.\nHe has not been killed in the fire, but instead has just run away and employed Eddie to give money to the Deans and take photographs.\nTerry has become very fat, and is the head of an entire criminal group.\nHe has also forgotten about love, but instead has three prostitutes as friends whom he hires almost every night.\nSoon afterwards it is revealed that Caroline is having an affair with Terry.\nMartin is dying of cancer, Eddie has gone completely crazy and Jasper tries to get the family back together.\nEddie, desperate to make his dead parents proud, tries to resume his pre-Dean career of being a doctor, but finds that the local population are happy with their existing doctor and his apprentice.\nHe poisons them and upon discovery the village turn on Eddie and all of the Deans.\nEddie and Caroline are killed.\nWith Martin nearly dead from his cancer, he says he wants to die in Australia and Jasper decides to go with him.\nTerry arranges it for Jasper and Martin to be smuggled back to Australia on a smuggling boat.\nOn their return Jasper and Martin bond for the very first time.\nThey enjoy each other's company and understand each other better.\nJust when Australia comes in sight, Martin dies smiling, and his dead body is thrown overboard, just as he had requested.\nJasper is arrested on the boat's arrival by immigration and Jasper ends up in a detention center, grieving for his father.\nEventually Jasper reveals who he is and he is released.\nThe authorities take him to a storage room where Martin's belongings have been stored.\nJasper is convinced it is mostly junk but discovers Martin's diaries, on which some of the book is based, and paintings of a face painted by his mother.\nHe realizes he's seen this face before and has been haunted by it.\nJasper also realizes that he will not become his father - his greatest fear - because his mother is part of him as well.\nHe sets off to Europe in search of his mother's past, with financial assistance from Anouk who has become the richest woman in Australia.