The story begins with a boy named Gecko who was a getaway driver for a robbery his brother and his friends were involved in. He was trying to escape from the police when he rolled the car he was driving. Gecko ended up in the Jerome Atchison Juvenile Detention Center. After being beat by other boys he met Douglas Healy, a man who started an experimental halfway house in New York. Gecko was just given a second chance at life.
After Gecko left the Juvenile Detention Center with Healy, they made a stop at The Remsenville Correctional Facility ( a medium security adult prison)where they were picking up yet another juvenile "convict". The second boy to join the experiment is Arjay Moran. He is a fifteen year old who boy who is six foot five and 260 pounds. He was attacked by his high school football team and threw one punch. He hit the quarterback who fell back and hit his head off of a statue and died.
The third boy of the trio is Terence Florian, a member of the worst gang in Chicago. Terence was on Lion's Head Island, an alternative detention program.
The boys and Healy live in an apartment in New York, where they will attended school regularly and take part in community service and therapy. These boys don't know that Healy has a past that relates all to well to them. The three boys must comply to strict orders or they will be sent back to juvie, dooming them to a life in prison. A social services worker by the name of Ms. Vaughn, keeps a close eye on the boys waiting for them to slip up.
After Terence steals a key to a fire escape located in their room, he tries to escape. Gecko and Arjay catch him as he is leaving and try to keep him inside. There is a struggle which makes enough noise to wake Healy. As Healy comes towards the boys to break up the struggle, he is knocked over the railing and falls to the ground. Seeing that Healy is still breathing, the three boys steal a car and drive him to the hospital.
Question: If you were ever in a situation where you had broken the law, would you run from the police or turn yourself in? Why?
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I would turn myself in bacause there is no point of hidding from the police they would find out what and who did it. plus it would take a lot less time to go to jail and go through all of the process of the time and you would get out faster. "If you do the crime you do the time"
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ReplyDeleteI think it would depend on the crime. Not that I'm capable of doing anything major (like murder), but it I committed a crime that didn't hurt anybody then I think I would try to just run from the police. But at the same time, the guilt may eat away at me. So I think eventually I would turn myself in and deal with the consequences.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all your book sounds really interesting because it reveal reality much like today. If i ever broke the law i would be petrified and terribly nervous because i never like getting into trouble. I was taught as a child that honesty is the best policy so in the event that i have broken the law i would confess and reveal myself and hope for the best that telling the truth would lighten the consequences.
ReplyDeleteI think at first because if I broke the law or did something wrong that I would be pretty spooked out so i think it could be a possiblity to run but in the end it would get better to turn yourself in because the more you run from the problem the worse the consequences. Also in my opinion i believe that unless I was actually in that position i dont exactly know which i would choose because you can sit and say you would run or you would turn yourself in but unless its actually happening you cant give an exact answer...in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteyess i would run because if you get caught then youre gonna be stuck in a little box for a while and in a prision full of convicts that are waitin for fresh meat.
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