RUNNER

By Austin Barber

Carl Deuker He lives in Seattle He works as a teacher He was an English

major at Berkeley His favorite book is

Moby Dick His favorite poet is

Emily Dickinson

Protagonist Chance is the protagonist of this book

because he does what ever he has to do to help his father.

Antagonist The people that hired Chance are the

antagonists in the book because they sell drugs and don’t care what happens to the people that work for them as long as they sell their stuff.

Favorite Character My favorite character in the book is

Chance because I thought it was nice how he was willing to do what ever he had to do to help his father.

My least favorite character My least favorite character is the man

who hired Chance because he took advantage of Chance’s situation to get himself money.

ExpositionThe exposition in the book is the fist part of

the book and it tells about all the characters in the book.

Rising Action The rising action of the book starts when

Chance is given the job to transport the packages from the rocks in the tree to the marina where he lives.

Climax The climax is when the man that hired

Chance dies and Chance tells his father about what his job was. They figure out the packages he has are bombs and the people that gave him the job are terrorists, and the terrorist force his dad to try and blow up a huge ship out in the bay but the bombs explode and his dad dies.

Falling action The falling action is when Chance is going

to his father’s funeral and he is living with one of his friends and figuring out what he is going to do now that his dad is dead.

Resolution The Resolution is when Chance said that

he was only going to stay with his friend Melisa until he graduates and he was going to join the army after he graduates.

Setting The time period of the book was not to

long after 9/11 and this is important because people are worried about terrorist attacks and the main character become involved with terrorists.

The setting is in Seattle Washington.

Themes Poverty – the main character’s family is

almost homeless and they are trying to survive.

Smuggling – the main character’s job starts of with him smuggling drugs into the marina where he lives.

Terrorism- the main character’s smuggling job turns into him unknowingly transporting bombs used for terrorism.

Rating I rate this book 8/10 because I thought it

was a good book, but it was just really slow at the beginning and wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be.

Social Issue The social issue I picked was Poverty

because it is one of the biggest issues in this book. It is what drove the main character to do all the things he did.

PovertyBeing in poverty means that a person

doesn’t have enough money for basic human needs.

Types of Poverty

Absolute poverty- is when people don’t have any money at all and cant pay for their basic needs.

Relative poverty- these people can barley pay for their basic needs

How it happens You can just not go to

school or not be able to pay for school and not get a good education and not get a good job.

A natural disaster can cause people to go into poverty like the earth quake in Haiti it caused a lot of people to go in to poverty.

Religious poverty Some people actually choose to be poor

because of religious beliefs .They believe that it helps them reach certain spiritual, moral, or intellectual states. Buddhism is one of these religions but only the monks have to give up every thing.

Who it effectsPoverty effects everyone in the world

because it is in every country in the world

Poverty cycle

Effects of poverty It effects a persons health because they

don’t have money to buy food for them or there family. “One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes: in total 270 million people, most of them women and children, have died as a result of poverty since 1990”(wikipedia).

Effects continued Most children that are poor don’t have a

good education because their parents cant pay for their schooling this helps continue the poverty cycle and it will continue if there is no outside help.

Some of the people below the poverty line cant afford a house so they are forced out on to the streets, they have no where to sleep and this will usually lead to them getting sick and sometimes dyeing.

Improving poverty levels The main way is for the countries

economy to pickup and get better. Charities are also a good way to help out

with improving poverty levels like The Africa Heartwood Project founded by Andy Jones he makes drums and sells them and gives the money to African artisans.

Quote"Human development is about much more than

the rise or fall of national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. People are the real wealth of nations. Development is thus about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value. And it is about much more than economic growth, which is only a means - if a very important one - of enlarging people's choices”(Anup Shah)

Work Cited House Dawn, “Aid to Africa, one drum at a time”.

http://www.sltrib.com. Salt Lake Tribune. 26 Feb. 2010 Web 28 Feb. 2010

“Poverty” http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 27 Feb. 2010 Web. 28 Feb. 2010

“Recession Drives Surge Of Poverty in Suburbs”. America 27 Feb. 2010 Vol. 202 Issue 6, p8-9, 2p Print.

Simon Romero. “Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Camps Adds Disease Risk”. New York Times 19 Feb. 2010 Print.

“$25 Million Set Aside For Appalachian Housing” http://www.cbsnews.com cbsnews 26 Feb. 2010. Web 28 Feb. 2010

Anup Shah “Poverty Around The World”. http://www.globalissues.org globalissues 27 Feb. 2010 Web. 28 Feb. 2010