Chapter 41

White Mike walked down to the beache in East Hampton with Alice on Christmas break, she told him bad things in her live and was taken off her clothes and run into the cold water.

Chapter 40

White Mike is dreaming that he’s on the top of a skyscraper while a thunderstorm rages. He falls from the building and he sees himself falling down.

Chapter 39

Claude wants to go out after the cocktail party to go with Tobias to the weapon shop in Chinatown. He wants to stay with a clear head. When they arrives Tobias goes away and Claude enters the shop to get some special from the Tradesman, therefore he gives him a Uzi.

Chapter 38

White Mike remembers on the summer of Long Island with Alice, when he goes to a bookstore to buy “The Plague”. They had a talk about her first things she has done.

Chapter 37

Jessica saves all the Twelve for New Year’s Eve.

Chapter 36

Chris and Claude smoke a joint together before the cocktail party, they do not very often things together.
At the party they bore, Auntie wants to introduce them to someone and he drugs Chris and Claude to Marcelle, who is an “uncool” boy.

Chapter 35

White Mike thinks about his life, when his mother’s coffin being lowered into the ground, what would be if the life is over.

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White Mike is a poor boy, he must see, how his mother is died.

Chapter 34

Chris watches TV when a UPS delivery put ten boxes in his house. Chris opens the boxes, there are bells. He rings the bells so long until his arms get tired. After he goes to his aunt’s cocktail party with his brother Claude.

Chapter 33

White Mike is angry and wants to see her mother with her natural head bald and not with a wig.

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I think, that you can see her, the psyiche from White Mike and association with the dead and how he liked his mother.

Chapter 32

Hunter sits in the cell and thinks about his alibi, which could be help.

Chapter 31

Tobias starts a conversation with Molly. He tells her, that he has piranhas, which he can show her after the meeting. Molly agrees and comes with Tobias to Claude’s house. Tobias throw a chicken in the water of piranhas to make a nice show for Molly. After that she wants to leave and Tobias wants to meet she again on New Year’s Eve.

Chapter 30

About Molly:

Appearance: She is sixteen, wears her jeans baggy over her thin legs, a turtleneck sweater, has brown hair and a glass.

Character: She is a quiet girl and a model too. White Mike is a family friend since the spring break in the Bahamas. Her Parents shall be crazy.

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Chapter 30:

Molly and her parents rent a compound on Scotsman’s Cay in the Bahamas, where she meet White Mike.

Chapter 29

Tobias is a part-time model since eleven, he likes that job. Tobias wants to be a fulltime model, but his father wants him to go to Princeton. On Saturday he has a meeting at his agency, in the waiting room he notices a beautiful girl.

Chapter 28

White Mike remembers, when Charlie wants to fly down to Florida and he stoles money from his fathers checking account, but that wasn’t enough and he stoles some jewelry from her mother to get money from a jewerly guy. Charlie notices that this shop sell guns and tells this all guys. When Charlie is in Florida, his mother comes home and notices, that her necklace is lost. She hires a private investigator. By the time Charlie comes back, he confesses his mother where the necklace is. His mother sent him to a boot camp.

Chapter 27

Hunter asks White Mike, why he doesn’t take drugs. Mike’s answer is that he has never the urge.

Chapter 26

Jessica goes home and listens to music with her Discman.

Chapter 25

About Charlie:

Appearance: He looks like White Mike, peoples think, that they are twins.

Character: He is White Mikes cousin, he doesn’t see his parents often, therefore he is grown up with White Mike. Charlie isn’t a good student and takes drugs, therefore White Mike could learn a lot about drugs.
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Chapter 25:

White Mike asks Lionel, if he has seen his cousin Charlie and if he can tell him, that he looking for him. Lionel agrees and says good bye.

Chapter 24

In the time as White Mike’s mum was contract in breast cancer and she knew, that she will die. She told White Mike, he should always live the best life that he could, because it could be the last. Mike woke up in the night and went to the kitchen to eat cookies and to drink cranberry juice, his mother’s favourite drink.

Chapter 23

About Lionel:

Appearance: He has brown and yellow bloodshot eyes, dark skinned, is handsome, has a strong jaw, isn’t fat, is enormous and carries a gun. For White Mike looks Lionel to criminal and scary.

Character: He is the dealer, who deals with the drug “Twelve”, comes from a criminal place, has children, one of his child is Jeremy, who is a bad boy. Lionel has no shame to kill people. He killed Nana.
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Chapter 23:

White Mike has a meeting with Jessica, she wants to get the drug “Twelve”, therefore he comes together with Lionel, he is the guy who deals with the stuff. Jessica gives Lionel the money and he gives her the drugs and his number to contact him direct.

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I don't like Lionel, he is a criminal and stupid guy with a negative aura, who kills peoples.

Chapter 22

Sara goes to Chris to induce him to throw the biggest party ever with cool guys, which nobody will forget like Sara’s grandmother’s Party at North Shore, at Chris’s house, when his parents are away. Sara uses all her femaleness to change Chris mind.

Chapter 21

White Mike and his father moved in another apartment, after his mother died of breast cancer. The first night was unusually for White Mike.

Chapter 20

Andrew is brought to the Lenox Hill Hospital. Sara comes also to the hospital to visit her boyfriend Sean. When she wants to go, Andrew talks with her.

Chapter 19

When the girls go away, Jessica phones Chris to get the number of the dealer, who deals with Twelve.

Chapter 18

Jessica wakes up at home, she remembers, that Chris puts she in a cab to bring she home. She doesn’t feel really good, but she has a date with her three best girlfriends to go ice-skating. Andrew is ice-skating too. When the girls want to go from the ice, Jessica is skating over Andrews head, because he felt down and Jessica couldn’t veer out.

Chapter 17

Hunter, Warren, White Mike and his cousin Charlie went to the Central Park Zoo with Warren’s Nanny Dorine when they were young. They all bought every week popguns, it becomes a ritual for them.
White Mike remembers on this, when he walks through the Zoo years later. He asks himself, what Dorine is doing now.

Chapter 16

Part II

Nana and the other white kid were found dead on 117^th Street.
A detective talks with Nana’s mother, who says him that Nana was at the Rec the day before.
When the detective arrives at the Rec, he asks Arturo about the dead Nana. Arturo means that Hunter has killed Nana, because Hunter was pissed off Nana.
The detective searches for Hunter and finds him at the Sixth Avenue; he sees the blood and brings him to the police office.
On the way Hunter thinks on friends, who can helps him, he remembers on Andrew and his father, who maybe can helps him.

Chapter 15

When White Mike was in the tenth-grade year, there was a rapist at the Upper East Side. Megan one girl in his ethics class told him the story. Later when the school was finished, White Mike and Megan walked home together. On the way back to downtown White Mike saw a flyer with the rapist and he have to think on Megan, when she could be rapist by the man.

Chapter 14

Chris goes to the bathroom after his party and finds Jessica passed out on the floor by toilet. He likes it to stare on her, because he gets never chance to see a girl live like this.
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Chris has a good character and makes the right, when he brings Jessica home with a cap.

Chapter 13

When White Mike was young, he tries to life like a samurai with honour and their lifestyles.
Now he lives in his apartment with his father whom he never sees, therefore he forces himself to enjoy things and make experience.
He knows exactly how to deal with drugs and how he can organize it.



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White Mike is a clever guy, he uses his intelligence to deal with drugs and so on.

Chapter 12

About Claude:

Appearance: Claude is six feet two inches tall, has his hood up to hide the face and his hands thrust in his pockets. He is stronger and more handsome than his brother Chris. He has a perfect skin and an angular face.

Character: Claude isn’t a good student or a good athlete, but he can lift a lot. His favourite music is metal and rap. He is a brutal and criminal boy, who brings honour with a story of him.

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About Tobias:

Appearance: Tobias is a beautiful boy, who is a part-time model.

Character: He makes a lot of stupid things, likes weapons and his best friend is Claude.

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Chapter 12:

Claude and Tobias walk to a weapon shop in Chinatown to buy some weapons like knifes, nunchakus and so on.
When Claude comes home, the party from Chris is going on, but Claude doesn’t care and he put all the weapons in his wardrobe.

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Claude and Tobias are crazy guys i think, they make stupid things and looks like criminal.

Chapter 11

Sara is boring at Chris party, Chris tries to enjoy her and tells her the story about his brother Claude and his first blowjob at the bat mitzvah.

Chapter 10

About Jessica:

Appearance: Jessica is a pretty girl, but Sara is prettier. She has a creamy skin, long brown hair, big brown eyes, has nice breasts, thin lips, a cruel mouth and she has a jockey body. Jessica gets a nose job to be more beautiful.

Character: Jessica trains her body with soccer and swimming and has many admires.
She takes drugs and drinks alcohol. Jessica is a very good student.

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Chapter 10:

Jessica is in the Bathroom of Chris’s house to take the drug number twelve, when she takes these one she memorizes the homework about Abraham Lincoln and reads that to herself. She starts to giggle and flows off the toilet.

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I can't understand Jessica, why she takes drugs, she is a good student and a beautiful girl, but she destroy her life with that shit.

Chapter 9

About Chris:

Appearance: He has dark blond hair, blue eyes and has acne.

Character: Chris is seventeen and a half year old and has very bad luck. He lives in a rich avenue and in a rich house with six floors. Chris wants to get a girl, therefore he throws a lot of parties. He has a older brother, his name is Claude.

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Chapter 9:

Chris makes a party in his house and waits for Sara and her girlfriend, he wants to get Sara at his party.

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My opinion is, that Chris is a little bit stupit, because he throws parties to get friends, he can also get friends with his character.

Chapter 8

White Mike goes to Chris’s house to give him some drugs, Chris asks him to come in, but he declines and walks away through the Fifth Avenue, which is a very rich street.

Chapter 7

About Sara Ludlow:

Appearance: Blond hair, blue eyes, long legs, large breasts, high cheekbones.
She wears knee-high stiletto boot from Jimmy Choo and a Prada bag.

Character: Sara is the hottest girl at the school and always on the top at the chart of beauties.

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Chapter 7:

Sara walks with her girlfriend to the party from Chris.

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I think that, Sara is described from the outward appearance like a perfect woman.
Why she doesn't start a modelcareer?

Chapter 6

Nana walks to home, he lives on 117^th Street and Third Avenue. Nana hates this place, he is rather at the Rec as at home. He brings sorrows, how he can explain the blood on his clothes.
On the way he sees two guys, one tall and one heavy, they are drug dealer and the tall one doesn’t give the heavy one the money, therefore the heavy one shoots the tall one down.
Nana tries to escape, but the heavy one sees him and shoots him also down.

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It's very sad, that Nana dies so fast in the book, I actual wants to know, how the realationship between Hunter and him going on.

Chapter 5

About Hunter’s Father:

Appearance: He is a big man, bigger than Hunter.

Character: He is always drinking, sad and he has not a real good relationship between Hunter.

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Chapter 5:

White Mike gets into a cab and drive away, Hunter walks to his home and listens to James Taylor. On the way he always thinks about Nana and other things.

When Hunter insides his apartment, he sees his father watching TV, who tells him that he wants to travel to Europe and his mother is already there. Then he goes to bed and waits until his father go sleep, so that he can slips out.

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I can understand Hunter, that he hasn't a good realtionship to his parents, because his father doesn't take care of Hunter, is always sad and drunken, therefore Hunter slips always out.

Chapter 4

White Mike remembers on a fire in East End Avenue.

Chapter 3

White Mike comes to Rec and wants to know, what was going on. He sees Hunter and remembers on the gramma school time with Hunter. Then they talks together about the future and the school.
Hunter wants to go to Harvard, because there is her other best friend Warren.

Chapter 2

About Hunter McCulloch:

Appearance: He is pretty, beef

Character: He wants no trouble at the Rec, he is a likeable boy, because he apologizes to his teammates
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About Nana:

Appearance: He is black-skinned

Character: He is likes to play basketball, but he doen't like Hunter.
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Chapter 2:

Nana, Hunter, Lanky Lerry, Henry Clay, Arturo and other one play Basketball at Rec.
Hunter gets Nana's spot, but Nana doesn't expect that and hit him, it comes to a fight, but Hunter doesn't want it and tries to go away from Nana, but Nana comes nearer to Hunter to fight with him. They fight as far as they fall to ground and their blood flow.
Then they come apart.
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I think, that Hunter is a good guy, because he wants no trouble and doesn't want hurt Nana, but Nana wants to attest that he is a nice player and his reaction is stupit.

Chapter 1

Part I

About White Mike:

Appearance: He is thin, pale, has blond, close-cropped hairs, wears jeans, a hooded sweatshirt and a Brooks Brothers overcoat.

Character: He live in Manhattan, has never smoke or take drugs, but althought he is a drug dealer, before he was a good student, but he is been out of school. His mother died.
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Chapter 1:

White Mike is buy with a pickup in Harlem, he remembers on the night, where his mother was alive and told him about the Chaos Theory.
When he starts dealing with drugs, he tried to go as long as he could without sleep.


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My opinion is, that White Mike looks like a tidy boy, he has a good attidue about drugs, but I can't understand, why he deals with drugs and why he doesn't go to university, I can understand the situation with his mother, but that's no reason.

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Homework and Informations:

Dialog between Chris and Claude:

On the morning at breakfast.

Chris stands up and goes to the kitchen to make breakfast for him and his brother Claude, because he is happy about yesterday and his parents aren't at home.
When he sits on the breakfastdesk, his brother comes in without a good morning or thanks for the breakfast.
Chris is ngry, but he wants to talk with his brother and asks him, what he has done yesterday.
Claude says:" Hey brother shut up, I will eat ..."
Chris is angry and goes away.


Mindmap:



Meatpacking District:

1. Where is the Meatpacking District located?
2. What information does Rosalie give about the "Meatpacking District"?
3. What do you like/dislike about the Gansevoort Hotel?
4. Write a dialogue between the concierge of the Gansevoort Hotel and the Manager.
5. Compare the District how it used to be in the past with the District nowadays.

1. The Meatpacking District is located between the Hudson Street 91th Avenue and Gansevoort Street.
2. Rosalie shows us the Meatpacking Destrict and tells more about the buildings and street, there are:

• Little West 12st Street
• Restaurants and Bars
• a lot of Meatshops = therefore name of District
• grafity and nice places
• Girlshop
• Earnest Sewn
  
• Pastis
  
• PM

3. Like:

• very nice place
• they have a nice designed HP with great sound and 360° view
  
• soft colors
• luxus rooms
• nice rooftop
• a lot of lights
• romantic
• tidy
• pools
• few events

Dislike:

• no dislike

4.


5.

Today:

• a modern destrict
• many tourists
• designer boutiques
• trendy restaurants

Past:

• no man's land
• nobody knows something about the district
• no restaurants
• no boutiques
  
• bad stench
• thieves
• a lot of butchers