Rule of the Bone (pg 73 -128)

Summary

Chappie, the main character of the book was duck tape to a chair by the drug addicts, which are Bruce, Roundhouse, and joker in Russ room. They tape him up to a chair with only his underwear on until Russ comes back so they can question the two.They want to question him about stealing their stuff, which are mostly TVs and VCR. Russ came back and they escape, in their escape a fire was started by the curtains catching on fire from being to close to the heater. It took over the whole building. Bruce died in the fire going back for Chappie thinking he was stuck in the building. In need of a new place to go and stay, they stole a car at convenient store parking lot, later on they parked the car and took the plates to sell. They came to a rundown bus and stayed there for a while. They were trying to get rid of the tattoos they got from Bruce's gang so they sold the plates for 100 dollars and used that money to pay for the new tattoos. Chappie got two crossbones and changed his name to bone. With only 30 dollars left they needed to find a place to stay. They bought tickets for the bus to go to a cabin in the woods that used to be own by a rich professor to stay in. they can stay there until the Ridgeways, who are the professor family come up from Connecticut.

Quotation

"They had hoses snaked all over the place and were shooting hard heavy streams of water into the fire but it was like the fire was alive and the water was its food that only made it grow larger and hungry for more" (Banks 82).

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There is great use of imagery in this quote, metaphor and personification. I like this quote and I am fascinated by it, because of the many literary devices that are being used. there is the use of metaphor when the it said, "they had hosed snaked", comparing the hoses with snakes. Personification when it was describing how the fire was alive eating the water like food and that it was hungry, and we know fire cannot eat only humans can.

Rule of the Bone (pg 1- 72)

Summary
From the first page, the narrator told the reader what he is going to say and do is all real and did occur. He said that because throughout the few pages I have read in the book there are occurrences that I would never expect a boy of his age would be doing some. He is very addicted to weed, and he drinks. he has easy access to alcohol because his step father drinks. After getting a fight with his stepfather he left the house and went to live with his friend Russ. He took his clothes, a 22 caliber gun, and stole his mothers money and left the house. He starts selling drugs, shoplifting, and hangout at malls. He got kick out from where he was living because he ran out of drugs and the crack addicts wanted some but he didn't have any so they kick him out and now his leaving in the Video den.

Quote
"You'll probably think I'm making a lot of this up just to make me sound better than I really am or smarter or even lukier but I'm not" (Banks 1).

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This qoute shows that he really dont think of himself much.