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Commentary On The Book 'The Limit' By Kristen Landon

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13-year old Matt notices something wrong when he and his friends hear of a girl who strictly without a warning got taken away from their school. Kids have been taken to a mysterious place so that their parents will finally stop overspending money. The author of this book The Limit by Kristen Landon portrays the wrong futuristic ways of our society today of children paying off for their parents’ mistakes.(The mistakes of not using their cash carefully) Though we, the US, have not really ever thought about this, there are many risks to this kind of dystopia. It is up to Matt once he finds out the truth about the workhouse to try to stop it. In Matt’s community, when adults spend more money than they have, the children of their family are
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