Something I
would do to extend Gone Girl’s fan
experience would be to create a scavenger hunt. The reason I think making a
scavenger hunt will extend the experience is because Amy (the gone girl)
created a scavenger hunt for hers and Nick’s, wedding anniversary. I would use the
scavenger hunt she made because that’s when she went missing. I would have all
the fans that are participating, read the notes that she wrote and go to all
the places she went before she went missing. This way the fans have a chance to
go everywhere and investigate what they think really happened. “I opened it as
gingerly as if a head might be inside. I found only a creamy blue envelope
marked FIRST CLUE” (page 73 Flynn). I would do something like this to the fans
of the book and let them read the clues and find out for themselves everything
about the clue and where she went next. They would have the experience to be
surprised with what Amy had to say in her scavenger hunt and how well their
marriage actually was in order to see if Nick would really be a suspect to
killing his wife. I think making the scavenger hunt could be exciting and
mysterious because you would never know where Amy went before she died.
Another thing I really would like to do is
make the fans into detectives and get a chance to investigate everything, like
go to the places they think she might be (where Nick was in the morning she
went missing) or interview the people they think were involved. The fans as
detectives could decide if they think weather or not Nick killed his wife
because he seemed to be lying a lot, “This was my eleventh lie” (47 Flynn). Nick
had been questioned over and over again until one day things came into view in
their house and they found Amy’s blood all over the floor and soon everything
turned into a murder investigation. The fans would go into a full blown project
to see if he did it because even his sister, Go, seemed to think that her own
brother killed Amy, she started to question it because on page 200 Go says,
“Since Amy has disappeared, all you’ve done is lie.” I think it would be fun to
leave it up to the fans to go on a journey and figure out if Nick killed his
wife, now that he is a prime suspect.
The
reason I want to do this is because it was my favorite part, going through the
journey to find Amy. I think that because it was my favorite part that maybe it
was other peoples too and they might want to experience the book themselves, more
so than reading the book. In the book there were a lot of places where they
interacted with other people and went to a lot of places, like when they all
went to different parks to see if Amy could be there and when they interrogated
people like her parents and especially her husband Nick. This part of the
scavenger hunt would maybe be for the people who had a hard time understanding
the book or maybe people who haven’t read the book because then they would be
able to go through the experience without knowing what actually happened. For
people who have read the book maybe all they’d want to do would be to go to the
places Amy was searched for and the places they thought she would be.
I think this idea would work because it’s
basically the beginning of the book that they look for Amy and investigate
everything, and making a scavenger hunt or letting people try to investigate it
themselves could be really interesting and exciting. I also think it would work
because who wouldn’t want to be involved with their book? This idea encourages
people to stay connected to the author because it’s a fun activity to go along
with that could help understand the reading or just let you be a part of the
authors work. I think this could broaden the audience because some people are
interested in mysteries but maybe don’t know this book and with some activates
that go along with the book could help people become interested and make them
want to read the authors next book.
