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__Jack's Run__ by: Roland Smith

"You want me to lie on the stand," Neil said. "Of course," El Sereno said. -El Sereno

"We have some trouble here. I will give you the details when i find out more. Neil is not fully cooperating and may need more incentive. Before the next photo, have Zita work the boy over so Neil knows we are serious. And give me and update oh how preparations are proceeding for the the meeting. " -Alonzo



 "If I lose you, Raphael, all is lost. You are the only thing holding our business together. And there is the jamboree to consider. What happens there is vital to our future. Let Zita and El Sereno take the risk. They are expendable." -Alonzo 

"The action is nonstop and the characters are compelling. The fast pace will keep even reluctant readers interested. A highly entertaining read." - School Library Journal



"Sometimes the story strains credibility but may be just the thing for readers who crave plot-driven fiction full of action and danger." -Carolyn Phelan, American Library Association

"Jack is a very tough guy. He is trying to remake his life, do the right thing, getting involved with other people on the run is not what he had in mind. But he just can't help himself." -Los Angeles Times

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My first quote: "You want me to lie on the stand," Neil said. "Of course," El Sereno said. I chose this quote because it is what one of the people is saying to Neil about all of this disaster. Since he got in trouble a couple years ago, Alonzo and his people are trying to get Neil in jail for what he did. But they can't because it turns out Alonzo has been in jail for the past couple months and is not able to do anything about it. He has his brother, Raphael, in charge of everything until he is let out. Alonzo orders his brother to get a hold of Neil and his wife and ask him to lie on the stand. Neil tells Alonzo's brother, Raphael, that he swears to lie on the stand. I think that is was a bad choice of Neil to tell him that he is going to lie on the stand when getting his kids back is going through his head. Neil has to get his kids back so he lies to Raphael about lieing on the stand so that they think he is where the trial is taking place when really he is on his way to Argentina to get his kids back.

My second quote: "We have some trouble here. I will give you the details when i find out more. Neil is not fully cooperating and may need more incentive. Before the next photo, have Zita work the boy over so Neil knows we are serious. And give me an update on how preparations are proceeding for the meeting." -Alonzo. I chose this special passage because they have got the kids and they have found out that Neil has not fully gone through with what Alonzo has told his brother to tell him. Then, Snake Eyes messes with the boy and hurts him, and then takes a picture and sends it to their parents so they know that this is very serious and that they need to stick through with the plan. Alonzo is just trying to prove that they will kill the kids if he doesn't listen. They have to listen to everything Alonzo says or bad things will happen and he will have his people kill their whole family.

My third quote: "If i lose you, Raphael, all is lost. You are the only thing holding our business together. And there is the jamboree to consider. What happens there is vital to our future. Let Zita and El Sereno take the risk. They are expendable." I chose this quote because Raphael wanted to drop out of the whole business and do something else. He didn't want to be known as the killer anymore. Alonzo was trying to convince Raphael to stay where he was and not go after the Osbornes becuase he could get caught just going by himself. At first Raphael did not want to do what Alonzo was telling him to do. Then, Alonzo told him what he could get in return and he changed his mind immeditaly. Alonzo and his brother Raphael have kept the business in their family going. Before, Alonzo's dad had been in charge og their business, then he handed it over to his two sons. They have made this business very successful and confident that they can catch people who have hurt them in some part of their life. They are both hard working boys and tend to get what they want.

My first picture: I chose the picture of the apartment because that is where Jack and Joanne were held through the entire book. They were kepted underground, underneath a horse stable, in a vineyeard for at the least of 3 weeks. It was kind of like a luxury apartment to them. All the cabinets were filled with food, they each had their own room and their own bathroom. They had plenty of water and food to last them a couple months. They had movies and magazines and other things to keep them busy for awhile. Snake Eyes would alwasy come and check on them every 10 to 7 hours to see if they were still here. She had beaten Jack and hit him a couple times down on the couch in the apartment. Snake Eyes thought it was funny that they had to be kept down there. Alonzo told Raphael to keep these kids down here for a long period of time. They built this place just for the kids.

My second picture: I chose the picture of the horse because this represents the creature that was standing in front of the hidden underground apartment. This was a mean and fierce horse. This horse always bucked and wouldn't let anyone come near him. Alonzo had trained him to kill anyone who came near. Alonzo had frightend the horse just enough to make the horse mad and only like Alonzo. This horse didn't like anyone else. Everyone was feared of the horse. The underground apartment was hidden underneath a horse stable where the horse weld held at. There was onyl one horse out of 30 stalls. No one would of thought to know where to look. This horse stall leads to the secret passage way where the kids are being held. This horse had kicked Jack whern him and Joanne came up with a plan of getting out. The horse knocked Jack dead cold. He passed out for a couple seconds then got back up and led the horse out of the horse stall so Joanne could get through. Once the horse was let out of the stall it seemed to like Jack.

My YouTube video relates to my whole book signifiently. My video is called Runaway by Love and Theft. It is signicant to the book because the whole book is about Osbornes running away or hiding from Alonzo and Raphael. At first they are very successful about staying away form Alonzo, but then Joanne was seen on AmericaSuperstar and they found the kids, catured them, and took them away to Argentina. It also relates to the book because it shows that the person in the video is running away from his life and doesn't want to come back to it. It is just like the book because Jack is also running away form Snake Eyes and trying to find a way to get his sister back and find their parents. Also in the video it says how the guy looks back at his old life. Jack looks back thinking why did his dad have to do what he did. If he never would of done it we wouldn't be in this situation right now.