Blog #3

The conflict in my novel is between Terence and Arjay. Mr. Healy has been wondering how he had ended up in the hospital in the first place after beginning to remember his memory and started to realize what had happened to him with the people who were responsible for his very unwelcome injury. No one but Terence and Arjay know the truth about Healy's injury and they know that once he figures out for sure who pushed him over the edge, both their lives are over.

Terence, being the main character in the novel, blames Arjay for pissing him off after he had headbutted him on the chin, although it was his fault for starting physical contact. Terence had thought about being the tougher person which lead him to doing what he had done because he was taught never to think weak, after rolling with the toughest gang in Chicago. Arjay doesn't know much about what they would be doing , except argue with Terence because he knows for a fact that it was all his fault for choosing the wrong actions, even though Terence knew he was much smaller than Arjay and just decided to play dirty.

Near the ending of the book, Mr.Healy returned to full health and remembered everything. He had gotten to the point of getting Arjay and Terence to even more trouble and doubled everything they had been doing before. Healy knows that it was not their fault and it was wrong of them to lie and hide the truth from everyone, but he realized they're just teenagers and they need to change before its too late.

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew the truth about something and just kept it from everyone and it caused an even larger conflict?

Initial Reflection

Gecko Fosse, a teenage criminal is among one of the 3 has driven in a getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago and Arjay Moran killed someone. These boys are basically criminals who have done terrible things and are sent to New York City where they are held in a Juvenile detention center until they get a second chance in life, by a man named Douglas Healy. Healy's job is to keep these boys out of trouble as he experiments to try to get them to make a difference in their lives. He does this by helping these young adults to become more responsible and to make them seem more accepted in life. He asks them to help people in charity work and also attend school on a regular basis.

Question:
What would you do if you had a second chance in life?