Summary Of Jack's Nuclear Struggle

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One day there was this boy named Jack, Jack starts off with his family in a very old ragged trailer shortly after the Jack family receives news from an old tv in their trailer about a nuclear spill in Minnesota, and was forced to leave their house because Jack's family lived near a nuclear factory. Nothing was the same when Jack's brother, Jeff , ran away from the family. Later that evening, Jack heard his doorbell ring, so Jack goes and opens the door and there was no one there but just a letter. The invitation stated that there that there are a few animals running around that are affected by the radioactive spill, and the first person to find one of the radioactive cats would receive a money prize of $1,000, the person who sent it was unknown. Jack receives help from a guy named Christopher, Christopher was telling jack about the experience he had from the previous nuclear spill. Christopher told Jack that he was walking down a road at night coming back from school …show more content…
Once Jack enters his trailer, Jacks mom and dad looks at him with surprise after they saw jack on the news controlling all of the cats to corner the villain. Jack's mom and dad tell Jack that he could do so much better things and help other people in this world and gives the decision rather to leave his old life or go and help other people in the world. Later makes the decision to help other people in the world. Jack than controlled all of the cats and made them clean the nuclear spill and help out other animals. Now the nuclear spill was cleaned up and all of the stray animals were clean and lived in better houses all because of Jack. A few years have passed and Jack is now going to college. The Jack than stays at an apartment and then later gets a letter at his door. The letter tells him if he would like to join “The Vigilantes” to stop crime. And later got the name “The laughing Puma”. Until this day Jack does not know where his brother Jeff

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