Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas
Summary
David, the main character in the book, realizes that his girlfriend Hilary has cheated on him. To make things even worse she is cheating with one of his friends from the football team, Sam. David tries to talk to Hilary but she thinks he hasn’t been the same since his mother died about a year ago. Later, David beats up Sam at a party.
Soon after David beat up Sam, David and his brother Will go back to school from summer vacation. It’s a new school because it was just built. As David and Will go into school there is an explosion. A really big covering is put over the school and there are soldiers that come in and tell the students that they are quarantined because there is a virus in the building. There was a testing place near the school and a teenager that was infected by the virus escaped. The soldiers tell the kids and teachers that they are in danger of dying and they cannot leave the building because they will spread the virus.
Things get worse when some of the teachers die from the virus. The students can only get their food from the military dropping them from helicopters. The kids start to form gangs that work together to get the most food and other supplies. The groups were the Nerds, Geeks, Freaks, Varsity, Pretty Ones, Sluts, and Loners (people without a group, like David.)
David’s enemy, Sam, is the leader of the Varsity gang. Sam becomes a very bad kid; he actually kills a student during one of the food drops. David has to offer to do laundry for kids in order to get some supplies for him and his brother since they aren’t members of any of the gangs.
The “Graduation Booth” is a place where students go to be released to the outside world. Once the kids get...
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David’s brother Will come back and has a dog with him. He tells the Loners that he thinks there is a way out, near where he found the dog. David is becoming ill from the virus.
The Loners look for the way out but David is captured by Sam. Sam tortures David and plans to kill him. Will tricks Sam into meeting him for a fight to get David back. Will fakes a seizure and then is able to attack Sam and then announces that the no one is watching the Varsity’s food. While Varsity takes off to get their food, the Loners get David and they go to where they think the escape tunnel is.
The end of the book is David getting out of the tunnel but the others remaining behind because it collapses before they can get out. David goes to get help and the doors of the school burst open and everyone inside escapes.
Firstly, he commands her to stop “talking to any … guys” (September 18). David’s fear of Anita’s demeanor instigating the students “[to take] [her] away from him” (September 18) makes his actions justifiable; hence, Anita forgives him. However, the second incident regarding Joyce and Debbie exposes his desire for segregation. Whether his fear of Joyce and Debbie “[introducing] [Anita] to other guys that will break [them] up” (October 8), justifies his demands, his second command for Anita, “to quit the basketball team” (October 8) validates his insecurity. By isolating Anita, David presents himself as her only trustworthy and legitimate “friend.” Worst of all, everyone has regards for David, even Anita’s parents. In fact, “[they] really like David” (October 8). Consequently, Anita cannot quit the relationship without the repercussions that would ensue. Everyone would side with David and blame Anita for his future suicide. David’s positive attributes blind everyone from his abusive and controlling nature; therefore, dismissing him as the problem. The driving force of David’s social manipulation stems from his insecurity of the
The greatest conflict in the book was Man vs. Man for David, because he had to face his childhood of when his sister June had died due to down syndrome. This internal conflict led to the guilt he experienced when dealing with the secret of giving his daughter Phoebe away and lying to Norah(his wife) that Phoebe had died at birth. Norah and the family later realised Phoebe was alive but in that time frame before that the family was falling apart.
This news literally gives David a heart attack, sending him into the hospital. David is bedridden for quite a while, causing Reuven to move into Danny Saunders home temporarily. In this period of time, Reuven now is vulnerable to Isaac Saunders, Danny’s father, and is not learning about him through the words of others but through his own eyes and interactions with the Reb. At this point, Reuven is now attached to the Saunders family, in a therapist way. Danny shares many details of his confusing life, and Reuven guides him through it; being a diary for Danny to write in essentially.
When one of the Socs tries to drown Pony, he goes unconscious and when he wakes up, he sees that Johnny has killed one of the Socs. The two boys decide to go to their friend Dally; he gives them money and directions to a church in the country. There they hide out for a long week, and after it Dally comes to find them. After eating, they return to the church and see that it has caught fire. A group of children are stuck in the burning building.
There are six main characters in this story: Mark, David, Susan, Jeff, Betsy, and Mr. Griffin. The most influential would be Mark. He is the one who comes up with the plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin. He is not a very good student and has a reputation of being a "bad boy." Next there is David. David is supposed to be one of the better kids in the story. He is a senior who is in the same class as Mark and the other characters. His role in the kidnapping is to get Susan to go along with the plan., and to help with the kidnapping itself. He seems to be a rather good kid in the beginning of the story but he progresses to be one of the bad ones. He has a very stressful home life with his mom and grandma. Then there is Susan. Susan is the good student and kid of the group. She is thought of as unpopular and a geek. She is very bright considering that she is a junior and is taking an English IV class. She is supposed to distract Mr. Griffin by having a meeting with him after school on the day of the event. She then gets pulled into the conflict even further when she wants to go to the police when Mr. Griffin dies. She almost gets
David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and much of what is happening because his parents do not realise that he has overheard their discussions.
When Reese and David are in Arizona after the debate, they see the news on planes crash by flocks of birds, they decide to drive back to San Francisco with their debate team coach. On their way back, their coach get shot in the gas station and their car flip over by a bird flying into the headlights. They have received an advance treatment that can cure them from critical injury. Everything is weird that happened to them. I would stop Reese and David from driving back to home. They don’t even know what might happen outside with such a weird phenomenon. If they listen to their coach and stay in the airport, then their coach ...
1. In the book, the father tries to help the son in the beginning but then throughout the book he stops trying to help and listens to the mother. If I had been in this same situation, I would have helped get the child away from his mother because nobody should have to live like that. The father was tired of having to watch his son get abused so eventually he just left and didn’t do anything. David thought that his father would help him but he did not.
There were several lies that unfolded throughout the story, each one having its own consequences. The main secret in the novel is the one that David and Caroline keep for years, that Phoebe is alive. This secret tears David’s marriage apart and causes years of guilt and pain for his whole family. Norah’s lies regarding her affairs not only caused a divide between her and her husband, but also with her son as well. All of the major conflicts in the novel revolve around the lies and secrets that are held between the main characters.
The beginning of this work focuses on speaking of excitement and joy due to the upcoming eighth grade graduation, "The children in Stamps trembled visibly with anticipation" (835). The children were shaking with excitement due to the impending graduation services. The graduation is the most important thing happening in the town of Stamps, "We even made a sign for the Store....It read clearly "CLOSED GRADUATION" (837). They even closed the town store for the festivities.
A Delightful Quarantine is a play written by Mark Dunn. This play is a dramatic comedy with 7 different story lines. In the beginning of the story the town is invaded by aliens. The aliens were going to be there for 3 days, and within those 3 days the community was under sudden housebound. In the play ADQ a mother who connects once again with the daughter she put up for adoption many years ago. A man with a weird problem of wearing girl clothes that turns around his marriage. A woman who just so happens to have 14 cats that are all invisible and her first ever date that is allergic to cats gets stuck with her. A boy and a girl that dated in highschool are rethinking about a 2nd time out. A house burglary with two elderly women and a the robber.
Appearances are but a mask, one which is crafted and molded to our benefit. This is true in everyday eventualities from applying for a job to even hypothetical scenarios such as the apocalypse where survival is a matter of not letting others know your weaknesses. For instance the writers of the series Quarantine: The Saints have adroitly layered out a story filled with half-truths and deceit, but also filled with an honest disposition of the characters trying to survive at all costs. This is especially true the sequel to Quarantine: The Loners. Where ordinary high school student’s lives destroyed in the previous book and now, we see their reactions. They have adapted, overcome and survived. Although if it’s for the better that they die or survive has yet to be resolved.
Andy goes back to school and talks to his basketball coach about how he feels about Rob's death and how his fiends and family feel about the accident. In addition, they discuss Andy's sentence because Andy keeps punishing himself for Rob's death. Everybody at school was crying during Rob's memorial service. Grief Counselors from downtown come to the school to try to get the kids to share their feelings.
The turning point is when they start to smash the seed melon and he found out the melon was to feed the neighbourhood and to make his wife feel better so he went to the area where he smashed the melon and grabbed all the seeds and went to mr wills house and promised that he would help plant all the seeds next season
Good evening parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends. I would like to thank you all for coming to this very special day. I know how proud you must be. As we have grown over the years, there are many stages we all have gone through. From learning our shapes and colors, to getting our first kiss in middle school, or how about explaining to our parents why we skipped school because the principal called home. As we remember these days, things that we've done will be with us forever. But this is only the start of our journey. The day has come where we say goodbye to the big yellow buses, assemblies, assigned seating, and attendance policies. Are you really gonna miss it? For some of us maybe not right away. But eventually we will so for us to be here it is not necessarily an achievement, but a privilege. All of us have been in school over half our lives. To graduate is one more step we've taken in our lives.