Text Response To The Novel 'Runner'

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Runner
“but after the lessons were over i returned home and stepped into the long
In the novel “runner” by Robert Newton the protagonist, Charlie Feehan, is a 15 year fighting to survive after the man at the house died. The Feehan family were struggling for food and money, luckily the redmonds were standing by their side through all those rough times. Charlie was finding it hard to step into the long pants of adulthood. One day when Charlie went for a run in his fathers old, broken and wet bootshe gets notice by squizzy taylor, richmonds most dangerous criminal. Squizzy informed Charlie about a race, where he had to comptete against Barlow, nostrils and an unknown.
In the Exposition squizzy

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