Raw Essay/Speech

This is a great book. What book you ask? It is the book Raw by Scott Monk. Today I will be telling you why I think you should read this novel and what makes it so good. A good book should contain things like a good plot and conclusion to make readers like ourselves wanting more. This is what I think makes a good novel and I believe that Raw achieves this. This book is in the genre Bil-dungs-roman. It was given this genre as it explained the trouble and development in a youth, in this case a teen in the book.
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The book starts off with a city teenager named Brett Dalton. He was caught by the police after trying to get a couple of easy dollars and cigarettes from a liquor store. Because he has been caught doing other things many times before this was his last chance before being sent to Jail. He was sent to a ‘Detention Centre” for 3 months as his punishment. He was then locked up in the back of a police wagon and with little food and water was driven to the boarder of NSW and QLD. It was a small town call Mun-gin-di which is right on the border. He was then taken to a property right on the outskirts of the town.
It was at this point he learned that he wasn’t going to a detention centre. He was taken to the farm. The farm was mainly a rehabilitation Centre which was where he had least expected to end up at. He was looking for the big fences, barb wire and bars on the cells but he found none. This was not what he was expecting. He saw 4 buildings. The first one he saw was a federation style homestead. Obviously he didn’t think that was where he was sleeping. The second building was a U shaped building with a sign on it saying “the boys house”. The building had no bars on the windows and no cells inside. The third one was a Barn with some horses in it, and the last building was under construction. Brett wasn’t expecting to see any of this at a detention centre.
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The first person he met was Sam. He was the property owner and brett would