(Section 3 and 4)
As Kimi and Daniel continue to work with each other to create amazing articles they get closer as friends and Daniel becomes motivated to lose weight to impress Kimi.Their work is starting to get noticed by the Seattle Times and have been offered fifty dollars for every article written.As they continue writing for Seattle Times and the school they still are trying to find information about Angel. Trying to find some information they get caught up in two life threatening situations involving drug dealers and gangs.Kimi gets bewildered and decides to back out of the investigation in concern for their safety.Daniel then figures out that the school has student files which has information about each student. Daniel convinces Kimi to join back into the investigation as he comes up with a safe plan to obtain Angel's student file.
After successfully obtaining Angels student file they come to learn that coach McNulty has removed multiple things from the file. Things such as Angels birth certificate, vaccination history, and high school report cards.The only thing they could recover from this file was a phone number. The football season continued and Lincoln High was being lead by their star quarterback and star middle linebacker Angel. Daniel tried multiple times to get an interview with Angel but coach McNulty always refused.He began writing about Angel in his Seattle Times report and he noticed that they were taking out the parts where he talks about Angel.Soon enough with the phone number they recovered they figured out that Angel was from Philadelphia.They found out that the phone number lead to a high school in Philadelphia. With some good leads and research they collected multiple articles with information about Angels past.Daniel comes into contact with a former student from the Philadelphia high school and begin to trade information about Angel.
Analytical Paragraph
In the novel, Payback Time, Carl Deuker tackles various problems such as gangs,drugs,obesity, and trying to fit in. Throughout the novel they always emphasize about Daniel being obese through teasing from others and his own thoughts.The book always mentions if Daniel eats something or prevents himself from eating something to continue his weight loss goal. Gangs and drugs come up multiple times through out the novel. Daniel and Kimi get themselves into some sticky situations as they try to find information about Angel. Daniel gets beat up as they get caught taking pictures of drug dealers.There are many flashbacks to Daniels past as he always talks about times where he was left out. Through out high school Daniel has tried to fit in but is never successful as he always finds a way to humiliate himself.
Interactive Response
At this point in the novel we come to figure out that this a an sports-mystery novel and so far it has a good mixture of the two. The story could potentially incorporate a sport scandal into it and that makes the book more interesting to me because I'm familiar with real life sports scandals. Daniels character definitely seems realistic to me as he deals with the same problems that any normal teenager would deal with. His thoughts are what really him realistic as he thinks about certain things similarly to how many teenagers think. The book does a good job of surprising you which completely changes your prediction of what could potentially happen.
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