Alex And His Friends Book Report

In this book Alex and his friend are arrested for being caught during a burglary. Alex goes to jail for being found guilty of murder, but his friend was not convicted, because he was shot dead by the police. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and it was no ordinary prison, it was a furnace. He could not have any visitors or chance of getting out. He is afraid that he might not survive very long in the furnace, and that is part of the conflict in the book. He does not worry about friends, because the only way you were friends there, was if you were a part of a gang. Alex is only 14, and he is in a prison one mile below ground. Alex and his cellmate, decide they want out of the prison so they devise a very clever plan to escape.