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Jack, Ed, Bam and their friends escape from Rowhurst.
Exposition
Jack, Ed, Bam and their friends escape from their school, Rowhurst, to avoid being eaten by the sickos. While escaping Rowhurst, they find some more kids hiding out in the nearby chapel. They meet a crazed kid known as Matt who wants to make a religion out of his so called "visions." -
Greg picks up Ed's and Jack's group in the bus.
Rising Action
Greg, a bus driving adult who is not infected, picks up both Ed's and Jack's groups who are running away from Rowhurst. -
Greg turns into a sicko and attacks the kids on the bus.
Rising Action
Greg finally becomes infected, goes crazy, and attacks the kids on the bus with a shotgun. Ed and Kalwane try to take one of their friends Piers out of the bus but are forced to leave him behind because he is too heavy. Piers is eaten by the sickos. -
The kids on the bus meet the kids from the Imperial War Museum and join groups.
Rising Action
The kids from the bus who are being chased by sickos find kids living in the Imperial War Museum and after a small bit of arguing they perswade the kids in the Imperial War Museum's leader Jordan Hordern to let them live there only if they find their own food. 220) -
Jack and Bam are killed and Ed is wounded trying get to Jack's house.
Rising Action
Jack dies of wounds after Bam accidentally shoots him. Bam is killed by Greg from a meat cleaver in his head. -
The kids living in the Imperial War Museum flee fire.
Climax
Fire from an unknown cause moves around London destroying everything in its path. The Imperial War Museum is in the path of the flames and the kids are forced to flee. -
To escape fire kids from the Imperial War Museum take control of a boat and sail the River Thames.
Falling Action
To escape the fire and the sickos escaping the fire the kids from the Imperial War Museum take control of a tour boat. -
Tour boat sinks
Falling Action
A fight between the kids starts about where they want to go breaks out in the controll room causing the boat to hit a bridge and sink with multiple kids dying. -
Kids from the Imperial War Museum find other kids hiding out in the Tower of London and decide to start living there.
Resolution
The kids that surived the fire and boat sinking float in on lifeboats to the Tower of London where they find other kids living there. Jordan Hordern orders the kids living there before he got there to go under his command or leave. The kids choose to be under his command. -
Indirect Characterization
"We only being resonable," said DogNut. "We looking after number one. Thats how it works now, blood." (Higson 198)
This shows that DogNut doesn't really care about other people
other than himself and that he is self-centered. -
Indirect Characterization
"I think this has gotten a bit out of hand," Ed said. "We should all calm down and talk about it." (Higson 201)
This shows Ed doesn't want to fight and is a pacifist. -
Direct Characterization
"He'd left Malik behind. He abandoned his friend because he was sacred. He was a coward." (Higson 95) About Ed -
Direct Characterization
"Brooke was so loud and confident and unforgiving." (Higson 220)
