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Sometimes you have to go home to find out who you really are Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn't know whose side... read more
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- Beth: Charlie's girlfriend - he can't remember their relationship, though
- Rick
- Alex
- Sensei Mike: Charlie's martial arts teacher
- Charlie: Man on the run
- Mrs Sherman
- Brown
- Peter
- Paul Hunt
- Rose
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“Now, to me, this was a very interesting story. It was a reminder that you should never let yourself get swept away by the crowd. Sometimes everyone you know can be saying something or believing something and it can jsut be dead wrong. All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the wrong thing or believe the wrong thing. they can make it very hard for you to refuse them or even just disagree with them out loud. People get angry at you when you disagree with them--especially when they're wrong--and nobody likes to be unpopular or have people angry at them. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to ouse your reason and your heart and stand up for what's true--and I guess not enough people did that during the Salem Witch Trials. (p.99)”
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“Never give in; never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty; never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
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“See, that’s the thing, pal. There are some truths you can’t prove,” Mike said. “There are some truths you can only live. Most of the really important truths—like the ones in the Declaration—you take them on faith at first. But then you live them, and that’s how you find out they’re really true.”
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All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the wrong thing or believe the wrong thing. They can make it very hard for you to refuse them or even just disagree with them out loud. People get angry at you when you disagree with them—especially when they’re wrong—and nobody likes to be unpopular or have people angry at them. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to use your reason and your heart and stand up for what’s true—and
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“Sure I will. I’m your teacher. I’m in your head, double-ugly. You’ll never get rid of me. That’s why you have to be careful who you learn from.”
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I mean, Mike told me the good guys were the people who were moving toward the light. But how did you know if you were moving in the right direction? So many people say so many different things, believe so many different things. How can you tell whether you’re on the right side or not?
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“Freedom is a mistake, Charlie. Freedom means imperfection. Freedom means inequality and injustice. Freedom means some people getting rich while others don’t. When people make their own choices, they make mistakes, they do cruel things.
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First Sentence edit
The man with a knife was a stranger.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter One- The Killer in the Mirror
Chapter Two- Surrounded
Chapter Three- All I know
Chapter Four- The Killer in Question
Chapter Five- No Way Out
Chapter Six- Two Motorcycles
Chapter Seven- Harley
Chapter Eight- The Truth You Live
Chapter Nine- Collision
Chapter Ten- Gunfire
Chapter Eleven- Murder
PART TWO
Chapter Twelve- Homecoming
Chapter Thirteen- A Haunting
Chapter Fourteen- The Return
Chapter Fifteen- What Friends Are For
Chapter Sixteen- Beth
Chapter Seventeen- Love and Death
Chapter Eighteen- The Worst Thing Ever
Chapter Nighteen- An Incrediby Stupid Plan
Chapter Twenty- Hunt
Chapter Twenty-One- Fighting By Remote Control
Chapter Twenty-Two- Nightfall
PART THREE
Chapter Twenty-Three- Sensei Mike
Chapter Twenty-Four- A Fight I Couldn't Win
Chapter Twenty-Five- Real True America
Chapter Twenty-Six- Something Unexpected
Chapter Twenty-Seven- Private Eye
Chapter Twenty-Eight- Homelanders 101
Chapter Twenty-Nine- Five Minutes
Chapter Thirty- Into The Night
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 4 in The Homelanders. (standard series)
Preceded by The Last Thing I Remember, and followed by The Truth of the Matter.
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- Andrew Klavan (Author)
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Page Count: 345
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