The Book Solitary: Personal Narrative

Personal response:The book Solitary was a great book. The book had a lot of really descriptive words to described what happened in the story. I liked how the story described how Alex and his two friends, Zee and Simon, kill the Wheezer. It used so many descriptive words in that scene it almost seemed real. I really wondered what was going happen to them next. Were they gonna be turned into black suits? Were they going to get killed?

Plot : This book started off with Alex still in Furnace penitentiary. Alex talked about how he was not a good person. He said that he had stolen from many people. He then started to talk about how Donovan and he planned to escape Furnace. They told Zee their plan of escaping. Their plan was to fill gloves up with gas and hide them under their beds. They would take them the next day when they went mining. It took them a couple of weeks, but then they were ready to escape. Alex, Gary, and Zee blew a hole in the wall and started their adventure into the dark. They went down the stream and realized they went the wrong way, so they headed up the stream almost getting killed by a dog. They started to hear Wheezers up ahead. Gary said he was not going to go down there because of the Wheezers. They found a hole to crawl in and Gary made Alex go first. Alex crawled in and kept going, although the hole got smaller. He made his way to a cavern. Gary got stuck and had to be pulled out. They started to walk through the cavern when Alex heard footsteps. Alex got tackled by something with sharp teeth. Gary started to run and Zee pushed the creature off of Alex. They ran toward the …show more content…
There was Alex who is the main character. He was fourteen years old and led a group of friends to attempt an escape from Furnace. Warden Cross was an evil looking man who seemed devilish. He was 100 years old and did not age because he drank nectar. He was in charge of Wheezers and Black