Monday, November 9, 2009

Summary with a Twist (Cody)

In the first two chapters Adam travels to Charleston. He looks for a place to stay and ends up at a homeless shelter and a police officer lets him in after hours. In the morning he goes to work for a labor company. He works construction and makes around $28. Then he goes to the store and spends all of his money on underwear, shirts, soap, shampoo, a towel, a toothbrush, toothpaste and some food. He then returns to the homeless shelter where he meets a friend and, for the first time, gets to tell his fabricated story of how he ended up in this situation. Then he goes to bed and reflects on his time there.
This section of the book was written in a very matter of fact way. Adam uses facts and tells the story as it happens. He gives all of his information directly and doesn’t leave much for us to figure out on our own. He is very observant of other people. He seems as if he stereotypes everybody that he meets and writes about what he thinks of everybody in his book before he even meets them. He also writes it in a positive way. It seems as if he is 100 percent confident that he will succeed. He doesn’t say he has any doubts and he focuses more on what he is going to do to survive than what could happen to make him fail.

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