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Summary Of Alexander Gordon Smith's Execution: Escape From Furnace

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Execution: Escape From Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith.The title of the story relates to this book because it’s about the main character, Alex, and his friends escaping from Furnace penitentiary. This is the final book and Alex has made a promise to himself to find Alfred Furnace, the owner and creator of Furnace Penitentiary, and kill him. Thus “execution”. The setting for this story is in Furnace Penitentiary and basically the world itself. The book doesn’t give you an exact time or year it takes place in, but makes references to WWII, and other references to make me believe it takes place in the future, perhaps around 2040. The story covers about a week's time and the setting is important to the story line. The main character is Alex Sawyer and he’s fifteen. Alex is set on destroying Alfred Furnace and all his ‘monsters’. Through the book you follow along as Alex and his friends travel place to place trying to find Alfred Furnace to kill him to end the war that has been initiated. Throughout the story Alex Sawyer slowly finds who he used to be and remembers who he once was, as the Nectar inside his veins changes who he …show more content…

Self, throughout the story Alex is continuously fighting the nectar away and is trying desperately to remember. He struggles with this throughout the book. Another is Man vs. Man, Alex faces Alice Panettierre after halfway through the book and is continuously tracked down by her. She is set on finding Alex and killing him and his friends. It started with her taking samples from Alex willingly and then later she betrays Alex and tells him she has to do an autopsy on him to understand how the nectar works. He tries to fight it but dies. After this you read about Alex “swimming” around in the darkness (right before he dies). Alex says “I knew that if I let the darkness take me now then I’d never see the light again.”and he was revived by his friends after technically being dead for five

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