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Carl Dueker

RUNNER. Carl Dueker. By : Robert Clawson. Carl Dueker. Born August 26, 1950 Married t o Anne Mitchell with a daughter named, Marian Lives in Seattle (setting for most of his books) Award-winning author for young adult novels. Protaganist :.

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Carl Dueker

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  1. RUNNER Carl Dueker By: Robert Clawson

  2. Carl Dueker • Born August 26, 1950 • Married t o Anne Mitchell with a daughter named, Marian • Lives in Seattle (setting for most of his books) • Award-winning author for young adult novels

  3. Protaganist: • Definition: Leading Character, Hero, or Heroine of a drama or a literary work • The protagonist in this novel, in my opinion, is Chance’s father. He is a Gulf War veteran who struggles in his everyday life being an alcoholic, but in the end he doesn’t only save the life of Chance but of thousands of people.

  4. Antagonist: • Definition: The adversary of the Hero or Protagonist. • The antagonist or antagonists of this novel aren’t given an actual name other then terrorists. • Chance struggles with this “unseen” foe since the day he accepted two-hundred dollars too pick up and bring back unmarked packages to the marina.

  5. Favorite Character: • My Favorite character in this novel is Chance. • He is willing to risk his life to save the only place that he can call home. • “Lots of times my dad made me mad, lots of times he left me alone and lonely, but I never once hated him.” That for me shows real character for him to say something like that.

  6. Least Favorite Character: • My least favorite character of this book would have to be Brent Miller. • Brent Miller tortured Chance at school. • Brent Miller was in the same situation as Chance and he only ever made it worse.

  7. EXPOSITION • Chance, Melissa, Chance’s father, and Kim Lawton are introduced to the story. • Chance and his father live on a boat named the Tiny Dancer. • Chance’s father struggles with the fact that he is an alcoholic and can’t keep a job for more then a week. • Chance is faced with the fact that they could loose their boat and have no place to live.

  8. RISING ACTION • The “fat guy” later known as Charles Burnett is introduced and adds conflict to the plot. • Charles Burnett offers Chance a job that provides him with a chance to earn some easy money. • Worried about loosing his home and his father takes the job of picking up unmarked packages and delivering them to Charles Burnett.

  9. CLIMAX • Charles is killed by the terrorists and Chance figures that it was only a matter of time before he would meet the same fate. • Chance figures out that the packages that he has been storing on the Tiny Dancer are plastic explosives. • Chance’s father sneaks him out of the marina. • The Terrorists find the boat and sail it out into the waters and detonate the bombs.

  10. FALLING ACTION • Chance’s father is honored as a war hero. • Somehow Chance knew that that’s what his father had always wanted. • Chance moves in with his friend Melissa, and family, from school. • Her family is rich and are willing to pay his way through school and give him a place to live.

  11. RESOLUTION • Chance decides that it was never meant to be this way. • They would always live their way and he would always live his. • He decides that the only thing left for him to do is to enlist in the army and follow in his fathers footsteps.

  12. SETTING • Along the Seattle waterfront. • Shilhole Bay Marina, on the Tiny Dancer.

  13. THEME • There are multiple themes in the book Runner: • Poverty • Smuggling and • Terrorism

  14. RATING • Ten out of Ten

  15. SOCIAL ISSUE Definition: The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; POVERTY

  16. Around the World • Over three billion people in the world live on less then $2.50 a day. • At Alta students spend $2.00 a day on school lunch. • At least 80% of the world lives on less then ten dollars a day. • In Utah an average house payment would be equal to $10 a day per person for a family of four. • This only includes Housing. . http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats http://www.mortgage-lenders-plus.com/mortgage/utah-mortgage-lenders.html

  17. In America Nearly 40 million people, over 13%, are below the poverty line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Two_official_measures_of_poverty

  18. YOUTUBE VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_LpE5nJlE

  19. Closer to home….. • Utah has 34,969 families under the Poverty Line. • 16,535 families with kids under the age of five. As bad as that may sound; Utah is better off than the majority of the Nation. http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/utah/economic.html

  20. Why is there Poverty? • Organized Civilization: • “Only when the society organized itself into a hierarchy, it was possible for one layer to exist while another persisted during times of scarcity.” • “Had not the society organized itself in such a way that segments of it are protected and other segments were defenseless, MAN would have remained as MAN and would not have been bifurcated into poor and rich.” • Globalization: • “To attract investment, poor countries enter a spiraling race to the bottom to see who can provide lower standards, reduced wages and cheaper resources. This has increased poverty and inequality for most people. It also forms a backbone to what we today call globalization.” http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty http://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty

  21. Why is there Poverty? Continued….. http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-avenue/recession-boosts-poverty • Economics: • “Though it will be a number of years yet until we know the full extent of the recession’s impact on poverty, clearly the depth of the recession in 2008 alone has already translated into significant increases in the number of individuals and families living below the poverty line.” • Continued Aid: • “Aid to other countries is not wise; it is egotistic by the giver, and for the recipient destroys self-reliance, and creates hostility.” • “Food aid (when not for emergency relief) can actually be very destructive on the economy of the recipient nation and contribute to more hunger and poverty in the long term. “ Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  22. What can we do? • “If a country like the US wants to help end poverty it can help with infrastructure, planning, but not aid. The best approach is to overcome its own poverty, which will vibrate out as life responds to break poverty in corresponding places on Earth.” • Raising the level of minimum education. • Generating more employment. • Educating the public opinion that poverty is not inevitable. • Presenting the government concrete programs of prosperity.

  23. YOU CAN END POVERTY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWzcyXQYm6w

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