Ingrid's Mistake In Peter Abrahams Down The Rabbit Hole

Down at the bottom of this story rests a pair of missing red soccer shoes. The protagonist of Peter Abrahams’s novel Down the Rabbit Hole goes to extremes to correct an innocent mistake. Late for her soccer practice, Ingrid tries to walk to there, but ends up getting lost, using the phone at strange woman’s, and leaving behind her red shoes at this woman’s house. When the woman is murdered, Ingrid begins to panic, fearing her shoes will make her a murder suspect. The act of retrieving her shoes takes her deeper into the rabbit hole. Ingrid’s curiosity and desire to do good put her in danger throughout the novel.

When Ingrid realizes she needs to retrieve her red shoes ,she encounters someone else with a similar goal. Her first dangerous encounter was when “a windowpane shattered somewhere downstairs….A footstep on the stairs...she was at the point of fear where fear stopped helping and started hurting...it fell,inches from ingrid’s face ,a gloved hand appeared,it came so close to her face she could feel the breeze”(101).This was when she first realized her quest to reclaim her shoes could potentially be dangerous.Ingrid was not familiar with this man and didn 't know what he could have done.

Ingrid realizes she tampered with the crime scene which might make it harder for the police to catch the real criminal.Ingrid doesn 't want any innocent person in jail so she decides to solve it herself without thinking it