Boot Camp Escape

The book Boot camp started slow and then in one instance everything started to happen. I was very surprised that all three of the main characters escaped. Garrett also manages to punish Joe for all the abuse he had been giving. The next few chapters really were interesting wondering if they would be caught. Seeing that most of the book so far has taken place at Camp Harmony it is a nice change to be out in the real world. It also seems we may never find out back stories of the supporting or the main characters. At times I had wondered if the main characters were bad and if their parents were right in sending them away. It doesn’t make them look any better escaping and running from people. Everything in the escape seems to have gone too well so I’m expecting a big twist at the end.

Letter to Garrett's Parents

I can’t believe you would send Garrett to boot camp. Your duty as parents is to help raise your children and you seem to have just given up. Listening to your teenage son could have helped you understand what you were going through but instead you just push him away. It’s bad enough that you sent him to Lake Harmony, but that you also allowed them to kidnap him in the middle of the night by two strangers. Once they get to the camp the teenagers are starved and beaten. The camp is nothing better than a brainwashing factory. If they succeed they will just have destroyed any of Garrett’s personality. The children are used to beat up and police the other children with promises of rising up in a system that will eventually let them go home. The entire place must be shut down. You may not have agreed with things that Garrett has done like trying drugs and dating his ex teacher but you need to remember what it was like to be a teenager. Everyone makes mistakes and choices and it’s up to parents like you to help them through the difficult times. It is sad that you have just sent your problems away.

Boot Camp so far

The book Boot Camp started out very slow. Usually I have a hard time getting into a book that has a slow start but the mystery really pulled me in. The story starts out with Garrett going to Lake Harmony, but gives us no real idea of how he ended up on the bus headed there. We meet a few different characters but they keep everything quiet and mysterious. Once we find out why Garrett’s been sent to the camp everything starts to make much more sense. I thought back to the way it was growing up and how difficult it can be as a teenager. I could not at all imagine my parents sending to a place like that. I have to wonder if places like this actually exist. I doubt that any could be as violent as the location in the book though. We meet other characters that rebel along with Garrett and so far have gotten just a basic background of why they are at the camp. Joe is the main villain of the story and its very easy to feel anger at the character and what he does to Garret and the others. David and Robert are kids that have been sent to the camp, yet they do not rebel instead they help the leaders of the camp keep others in control. I can see that an escape plan is in the works. I really just hope I can get some more background on the characters before any kind of major action begins.