Cant get there from here By: Todd Strasser

1. Cant get there from here By: Todd Strasser

2. Todd Strasser’s Work • Famous • If I Grow Up • How I Created My Perfect Prom Date • How I Spent My Last Night On Earth • Count Your Blessings • For Money and Love • Boot Camp • Give a Boy a Gun

3. Todd strasser • Born in New York,, May 5, 1950 • After college he managed his own fortune cookie company. • Has two children • Hobbys---Surfing and Tennis • "Todd Strasser." Wikipedia. Web. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strasser>.

4. Protagonist…woOtWoOt ::) • officer Ryan • maybe • maggot • country club • 2moro • pest • Tears • Rainbow • Jewel • Anthony • Laura

5. Antagonist.Dun…Dun…Dun…heh. • Except for not “Dun dun dun” because there are no antagonist’s in this book. • Note to Pitcher: ( please don’t dock me off points for not having any. Gracias)

6. Maybe =] • Maybe is my favorite character. She shows strength and love throughout the book. • Her “street name” is Maybe because that’s all she says---”MAYBE”. • Its sad she says this. Its sad that she is never sure about anything. She is insecure and has no surety about anything.

7. Least favorite… • There all hobos on the streets… there all my favorite. =D

8. ExPoSitIon. • There are kids being abandon and running away from there home. • There goal: Surviving the dangerous streets of New York City. • They're friends because they have one thing in common…there home life sucks and they have been abused in one way or another • They consider each other family. • They protect and fight for each other always Watching each others backs. • Living on the streets is there life--- surviving is there struggle. • Doing anything they can for money. $$$$$ making signs, selling dope, and even selling there selves for the perverts out there. • They have no trust in anyone, especially adults.---It’s the adults that made there life living hell for them… why trust ANY of them? They are all the same.

9. RiSiNg AcTiOn…… woot woot. • There health conditions suck. They don’t want anyone's help. There trying to make a point to anyone who doubts them. And there stubborn about it. • There hood rat family is in bad conditions, there dying like tic tack toe, but what can they do? • They find there friend lying in “Piss Alley” dead from alcohol poisoning. • This shocks everyone, there first member gone and dead, just like that. But hey. That’s life in the streets. • Its getting cold outside. They will do anything for warmth, they attend a ghetto rave and drugs and panzees are everywhere doing dirty stuff. Rainbow was found two days later dead in a river, having been drugged up and raped.

10. Climax • The Crew is struggling to survive. Dying one by one, Maybe and her closest living friend, Tears, begin to realize that life on the street is not a life. • Finding out that Tears has Grandparents looking for her, they struggle to find help to get her to them.

11. FallingAction • Maybe and Tears find help to there problem. • They find the only adult they can even manage to talk to Anthony • They tell him there problem and they come to a solution. • Anthony and Maybe go on a road trip to take Tears to her new home to her Grandparents.

12. Resolution:: • The street rats are non existent. They are either dead, or stopped trying to prove to the world that they don’t need society and adult help. • Tears was reunited with her Grandparents at last and was able to survive her period of time on the streets. • Maybe has given up trying to prove to the world that she doesn’t need any help for survival.

13. Setting:: • The main setting in this book takes place on the dirty and ghetto alleys of New York City. • Also there is a chapter in the book where they are in West Virginia for a short while.

14. Rating---And the social issue. • I’m a picky reader, I have a sever case of A.D.H.D and a book has to be AMAZING to catch my attention---This book did just that. • The reading is easy to understand. So it feels like your watching a movie in your head. • Its not one of those hard core books where you have to think about each sentence you read and guess what it means. • To conclude my babbling….10000000000/10. READ IT PEOPLE!!!!

15. My Social issue…(s) • My main issue is poverty and kids (teens) on the streets. • More and more teens are living the street life. Some choose it, and some have no choice. • Drugs have a big impact on choices that teens make. They become your first priority in life and you will eventually do anything to get your hands on the dope. • Drugs also lead to violence. Dealers and buyers get shot and brutally hurt. Drugs is worth your life eh?

16. {{{Continuing of last slide.}}} • Another big thing that leads teens on the streets is FAMILY ISSUES. • Parents get divorced, mom or dad marries a new spouse, the spouse is a dick, and physically abuses you. Whether its sexually, verbally or just abusive by hitting. • Maybe the parents are drug addicts and sold you for drugs. • Or maybe they just don’t care for you. Your worthless to them and they want you gone, your just a burden.

18. Citations • http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-20/news/17228719_1_rival-gang-gang-member-oakland-police • http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/911118Arc1054.html • http://www.teenhelp.com/teen-drug-abuse/street-names-drugs-used-by-teens.html • http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-Abusive-Street-Teens

19. Movies and stuff • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSg-BWbE1EQ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_121nL8ek&feature=related