Summary Of David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Have you ever read a book that continued to keep you interested in what's going to happen next? You get lost in the book trying to figure out what's going to happen before reading on. This happens often in novels that have a lot of suspense like Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” or Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters In The Snow.” The fact that they both have suspense is often the only similarity people can think of. There are many similarities and differences in them both that get ignored such as similarities and differences in the plot, theme, and characters.

Prior to being assigned the reading of the memoir “Always Running”, by Luis Rodriguez, I had never given much thought on juveniles involved in gang life. Rodriguez achieved success as an award-winning poet; sure the streets would no longer haunt him - until his own son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in the vivid memoir, “Always Running.” “Always Running” is the compilation of events Luis experienced during his youth in San Gabriel. The theme of the book is to always strive for the best things in life and to always take a stand for what you believe. Lured by the seemingly invincible gang culture of East L.A., he witnessed countless shootings and beatings, as well as senseless acts of street crime against his friends and family members. As a Latino in a poor neighborhood, Luis struggled through criticism, stereotypes, and mistreatment. With the help of his mentor, Chente, Luis saw a way out through education and the power of word to successfully break free from years of violence and desperation.

In both the excerpts "Jams" and "Swimming with Nightmares" by Peter Benchley, the author creates suspense in many ways. The author utilizes descriptive words, character's choices, and dangerous situations for creating suspense.

     The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting

Wes making a critical decision in his life, without a voice around to say otherwise entered the drug game. Both Wes Moore’s shared a common thread while growing up. They both grew up in single parent environments, both were raised in inner city neighborhoods, and both had run-ins with the law. As author Wes Moore states in the introduction, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine . . . .

They struggle at first to make it, but they do eventually. They get “turned on to drugs” again. After a traumatic sexual assault, they leave the area to open a store, which they then leave to go back to their families. Again, they say that they won’t do drugs. Everyone wants them to sell, but they try to resist. They end up doing drugs again.

This is where I could really connect to The Other Wes Moore, the author Wes Moore wrote “ A few blocks from his house he noticed something he had never seen before: a kid, maybe a couple years older than Wes, standing on a street corner. This boy was wearing a headset right out of the Janet Jackson “Control” video. A gold ring with a small diamond cut into the middle of its crown caught the light every time the boy moved his hand. The ring was not exactly flashy, but the shine coming off it told a short story; the kid had some money...” (Moore 57). Wes was poor, only had his mom to help him financially so when Wes saw things that he wanted but couldn’t afford he took it upon himself to get what he wanted by taking a headset and getting involved in the drug game to satisfy his wants and needs. Young people that are born into poverty and don’t have as much financial support as they may need, tend to run the streets trying to make

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

Throughout the novel Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez, The reader is exposed to Grillo’s character change consistently in the story when examining his gang activity, emotional experience to drugs, and his personal changes. Within chapter 2 a reader is exposed to one of Grillo’s character change. This change is shown when he witnesses gang activity and is inspired by the fear those gang members have inflicted on other people. The change that Grillo shows is he now wants to be part of a gang and is shown when it states “ Thee Mystics were a tough and up coming group. They fired their rigged .22s at the school and broke a couple windows with stones…

21 year old Nic Sheff with an extended history of drug use has finally been sober for a little over a year but that soon changes. In and out of rehab centers and 12 step programs Nic began experimenting with drugs at quite a young age beginning with alcohol at age 11 closely followed by Marijuana at age 12. As Nic becomes older the drugs become more lethal from heroin to crystal meth. One day in the city of San Francisco Nic runs into an old friend, Lauren. Lauren and Nic soon follow that meet with a drug dealer named Gack and pick up a gram of crystal meth. What follows is a chaotic swirl of events.

     This book combines characteristics of a suspense thriller with those of a tragedy and is a very interesting book to read. I liked the detail that the author went into about the psychological aspects of the characters in making the decisions that they made. I thought that the characters were well developed and I liked the detail that the author went into about the settings. A detailed setting can really increase the intensity and realism of a situation in a book. This book contained some difficult words that lower level readers might not understand. I would recommend that anyone looking for a suspense/tragedy oriented book should look to this one. The beginning is a somewhat tedious read, but that is only because the author takes so much time to develop the

Suspense is a technique used by many authors to draw in a reader and keep them hooked. In Richard Connell’s, “Most Dangerous Game” he uses multiple techniques to express suspense in the story. The combination of these techniques produces a story which creates a sense of uncertainty for the reader. He is able to combine foreshadowing and tension to create this sense of uncertainty for the reader in “The Most Dangerous Game”.

Throughout the book there are many plot twists that create a very suspenseful

Lis Wiehl, the author of The Newsmakers has written this eminent thriller together with Sebastian Stuart. Some people do not like this book, they say it is not a Christian book, or they find it offending. But it would be boring if we all read the same books and if all authors wrote in the same way. We believe in a varity of books and do not feel it is up to us to judge if a book is Christian enough. Go ahead read the book and do your own thinking. Find out more by clicking the following link:

Jack Smith a 17 years old teen from (Ontario, Canada) is invited to stay with his cousin Mary Loose-Doe from (Water city, N.Y). Accompanying him in his trip is his other cousin 21 year old Bill Jones, both boys are foreign to the United States and the city life as they derive from a small settlement. Mary shows the boys a good time, taking them out to party’s offering them marijuana and alcohol. The boys are later introduced to Mary’s boyfriend 21 year old Pete Poorchoice. Pete is a High school droop out and veteran of two reformatories.