Question

In three to five sentences, summarize the conflict Marcus is facing in this excerpt.

Answer 1

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/54148283e4b08b11f1328692

Answer 2

Read this excerpt from Little Brother and answer the following questions in complete sentences using proper grammar and punctuation:

Marcus manages to flag down a vehicle and they get more than they bargained for…

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it. The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road. I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by. I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me. I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true. You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears. I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level. I didn't even breathe. Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe, so quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me. I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly. I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends. I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer. More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

"Guys?" I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble. I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too. My head rang like a gong.

"Hey," I said to the soldiers. "Hey, listen! We're just high school students. I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him." I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag. I kept talking. "Listen—this is some kind of misunderstanding. We've got to get my friend to a hospital—"

Someone went upside my head again. It felt like they used a baton or something—it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before. My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain. A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything. I'd learned my lesson.

Answer 3

@Mr_Perfection_xD @satellite73

Answer 4

@jdoe0001

Answer 5

Can you plz help me?

Answer 6

Did you see the link I posted?

Answer 7

there is no link.

Answer 8

It's before you posted the story.

Answer 9

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/54148283e4b08b11f1328692

Answer 10

ya i saw that before i posted but that is not the same story.

Answer 11

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/516eeac1e4b0282adaa6efaa

Answer 12

Try that one instead.

Answer 13

wow this is a lot of texts

Answer 14

Is the protagonist Marcus or his freind

Answer 15

@pizzaqueen5

Answer 16

pizza man is offline btw

Answer 17

@Crazy_questions Is the protagonist Marcus or his freind?

Answer 18

sorry dont no

Answer 19

:( why are you even on os then if you don't know anything?

Answer 20

never heared if it

Answer 21

I'm not a man I'm a queen by the way, meaning I'm female. lol

Answer 22

A protagonist is the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. So, Marcus.