On the Run chase the Falconers RJ#8

Dear Mrs.Zrihen,

I just finished the book called On the Run: Chase the Falconers by Gordon Korman. I loved this book so much!!!!! I couldn't stop reading it was so exciting and very interesting. I would recommend this book to everyone in the class who liked mystery. I read this book in 2 days. I would rate this book 5 out of 5stars. I don't really remember a specific passage in the book, but I remember something:

" ... we asked our father, who was a college professor, why he was arrested and their mom, and he told them that when they discovered that a secret family member was actually a CIA agent who told them that the government needed help with tracking down enemy terrorists. They helped and the government was able to locate a terrorist, but the terrorist got the information on their hands and escaped, and the two scientists were accused of it and sent to prison for life..."

I think this is an important passage to the reader because it tells you why the whole story started and how the conflict was formed; the falconers had to find a way to prove wrong their parents.

The genre is fiction and the sub genre is mystery because one it was the book a week challenge and two it was a mystery that the falconers had to solve to find the CIA agent who can prove their parents innocent. The protagonists are Miguel, a kid who was sent to prison for Manslaughter, Meg, and Aiden. The antagonists are the police man who put to jail Meg's and Aiden's parents, Harris, and a bald man who attacked them but it didn't say his name. The setting was in a farm in Nevada, also in Chicago, and last Vermont. 

The exposition was that Aiden and Meg were in a farm/jail which they were kept in because none of their relatives would let them in and so they burned the farm to escape. The rising action was that they fled around the cornfields and stole some bikes to go to a gas station and from there to a train station. The climax was when they met Miguel and they escaped in the train to Chicago, when they got there Miguel met his brother and he wouldn't accept them in. The Falling action was when they took haircuts and started looking different and started going to Vermont to find a picture of the CIA agent. The resolution was when they got there and the bald man attack Miguel leaving him injured and the two kids ran away going to look for the CIA agent.

The problem was kind of Man VS. Society because they were running away from two things: the government and the bald man who wanted to kill them. The conflict also was that the kids had to run away from justice trying to find a CIA agent who was the only one who could prove their parent's innocence. The tone was mysterious and the mood I felt was excited.

I don't think there was a moral or theme but the point of view was third person. The P.O.O was chronological order because it was saying through time like the clue words: then, next, after, ETC.

The author's purpose in writing this book was to entertain. There was no Author's perspective and I couldn't find any figurative language.

Some before reading strategies I used in this book were to predict what was going to happen in the book by looking at the cover page and the synopsis. Another strategy I would use was to use the five finger rule to see if I didn't know any words. The during reading strategies I used was to confirm any predictions I made and make new ones, also I reread parts I didn't understand or paid attention to. Last is the after reading strategies I used were to rate my book from 1 to10 and also to ask questions about what happened in the book.

I would rate this book 5 out 5 stars.

Sincerely JUAN 702