Read this excerpt from Little Brother and answer the following questions in complete sentences using proper grammar and punctuation: Marcus manages to flog down a vehicle and they get more than they bargained for
It was a military-looking jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it. The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and
jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road. I felt the doors open near me, and then sow a confusion of booted feet moving close by, I
looked up and sowo bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted foce-plores
1 barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me. I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you ve heard
about the experience is true. You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears. I opened my mouth, then shut it then, very
slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The foceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level. I didn't even breathe. Van was screaming something and jou was shouting and I
looked or them for a second and that was when someone put o coarse sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe, so quick and so
fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me. I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice
around my wrists and then tightened up as well feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly. I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends. I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of
the bag and then I was being impersonally houled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back my shoulders streaming,
stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer. More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
"Guys? I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble. I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt 100. My head rang like
agong
"Hey." I said to the soldiers. "Hey, listen! We're just high school students. I wanted to flog you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed
him. I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag. I kept tolking. "Listen-this is some kind of misunderstanding. We've got
to get my friend to a hospital
Someone went upside my head again. It felt like they used a baton or something-It was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before. My
gyes savam and watered and I literally couldn'y breathe through the pain. A moment loter, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything. I'd learned my
lesson
In a paragraph of at least three sentences, describe a conflict you have experienced. Identify the choice you had to make. Explain how this
conflict changed you. (20 points)