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Book 1 - Acceleration by Graham McNamee

The Main Character is Duncan. He live with his mother in the jungle (old run down apartments).

Setting- Toronto, Canada. In what they call the jungle is a bunch of apartments near an industrial park. "The Jungle is just a worn-down kind of placewhere the kids run wild and heards of cats live out back by the garages." (Pg. 15).

Plot - "Working at the Toronto Transit Commission's lost and found." (Pg. 1). Duncan comes arcoss a book at work. " Not reall a //book// book at all, it's some kind of journal or notebook. (Pg.6). "This persons handwritting is like epileptic chicken scratch." (Pg.6). As he reads on he find and experiment of drowning mice in different liquids water, gasoline, windex...etc... and newspaper clippings of cats found hanging by their necks on trees. He dropped the book and kicked it. "Walking away down the aisle, I cant help thinking how it's not a;ways that easy to kill a roach." (Pg.7). Once again he picked up the book and started reading again at work. "I need a name. It's going to be on everybody's lips. I'm going down in history." (Pg.12). When Duncan was younger he got caught stealing toilets with his friend Wayne. "Easy money. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody even owns the stuff really. How could it be stealing if nobody even owns it?" (Pg.21). They got community service and their parents didn't allow them to see eachother for 8 months. That was the last of their criminal lives. Back at work Duncan found a duffle bag filled with gas masks. "Jacob's gone on luch when the cop comes. He's only a transit cop, but still, he maes me nervous." (Pg.29). The cop just blows it off like nothing. As Duncan leaves work that day Jacob notices the diary and asks, but he tells Jacob it's just a blank book and off he went. In the diary Roach (Duncans name for the owner) says he needs to step up his game. There are three women he has been following and making notes about on the subway with their daily scheduals. "My plan for tonight is to track down Roach. I don't have it all worked out, but I figure I'll just follow the blueprint he's laid out in his diary." (Pg.61). "In my back pocket is a photocopy of Roach's target list. I'm going to follow his little treasure map, see where it leads. But the thing is, who knows it he's picked out new tragets by now? Or -- Or if he's already done it!" "I'm not too late. I can't be! The diary got turned in about two weeks ago,and he was still planning then, building up to it." (Pg. 62). Duncan follows one of the girls in the diary hopeing to see "Roach". "I give her some distance so I'm not too obvious." "Her eyes shift and she catches me watching her." (Pg.71). "I've got to go back to the diary and study it like a bible, find where he slips up and gives himself away. There's got to be something." (Pg.73).

Characterization - "If you think of a half-deflated soccer ball with two of the hairiest ears you've ever seen attached to it, you've got a good picture of jacob." (Pg.2). "Vinny takes a minute to change from his ratty old sweatshirt into his uniform: jeans, black T-shirt, and an army surplus jacket two sizes too big." (Pg.14).

Figurtive Laguage - "Some Chinese guy once said a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step. Well my first step was kind of a stumble. But it was a step." (Pg.76).