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Brief Summary Of Hunger By Michael Grant

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I am reading hunger by Michael Grant and I am on page 200. This book is about a world where everyone older then 14 disappears leaving all the younger kids left behind. Some of the kids are lucky enough to obtain powers. A boy named Sam must find out how all this happened, while keeping everyone under control. Sam also has many enemies like Drake and Caine that he must keep under control as well. In this journal I will be predicting and characterizing. I predict that all the kids will starve, because there is not enough food left. There is not enough food for everyone in the town. All of the kids in Perdido beach are going hungry because they are loosing access to food. All of their fresh fruit are starting to decay as a result of not being …show more content…

Lets not leave out that there is a huge cabbage field filled with tons of cabbage, but a population of mutant worms occupies it. One of the children named E.Z dies as a result of walking in the cabbage field. Sam does not want anyone walking near the fields until he can figure out how to pick the cabbage. In like matter Sam has a friend named Orc who could walk in the field and not be bothered by the worms, but Sam has a small price to pay for that. If Sam wants Orc to pick the cabbage, he must supply him with a six-pack of alcohol every day, that is not a price Sam is willing to wage with that. “Orc has become an alcoholic. You want to give him beer?” (Grant 78). This shows how much Sam cares about one person. There is too much stealing going on in the town. The kids are not able to find any food because Drake has been raiding all the markets clean of food. The only possible source of food left is the cabbage field. Not to mention all the kids are too frightened to stop Drake, because he has a high

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