Escape From Camp 14 Turning Points

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At first, all Shin wanted was to survive, then he wanted to grow up; Now he wants is freedom, the main character in the novel Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. Shin received a tiny taste of free thinking in Camp 14. He received his first glimpse of sovereignty from a friend by the name of Park. Together Park and Shin made a plan to escape from the terrible and abusive labor camp. They would both run on one of their two days a year off. The first day Shin spent with his Father. This was a major turning point in the book, Shin and his father weren't ever close since Shin was told that they were in the labor camps since of his mother and his father. Shin never was told that he was loved by his parents. He was only told that he was suffering since of them and he always held this lack of sympathy against them. His mother and brother had already been dead, so his father was the only family he had left. He knew that once he left similar to before, his father was to be tortured due to his escape. Once Shin & …show more content…

Her word choice makes the scene of the following events feel surreal. Park started having second thoughts about the escape, but they wouldn't have another great chance of escaping similar to they did for the next 5-6 years. They decided it was time to run, Shin grabbed Parks arm and ran for the fence. Shin slipped on some ice while running Park just kept moving. Park made it there first and they had not known that it was an electric fence. Park began to climb the fence and was electrocuted and died. Shin had no choice but to climb over his friend. This might have been one reason Shin survived the escape. Shin made it over with a couple of burns to his ankles and he ran and ran for what was estimated to be 5 miles until he reached a little town and he found that there had been Nails placed in the ground if anybody had planned to run. He had stepped on some and he had Nails inside of his

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