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Mike Lupica: Heat IN this book Heat, it takes place mostly at Macomonds Dam Park, and the Yankee's stadium. The city is mostly in New York,New York, and the Bronx. ** Some of the main characters are...

Raymon: Raymon was a street kid about 16 or 17 from the description of the book. He makes him money of of mobbing old woman. The way his life is going he gonna be in jail in no time.

Michael Arroy: He is 12 years old and has a father that is dead. He is 100% Cuban and has the best arm for a 12 year old.

Mrs. Cora: She was like the mom of the 2 mike used to always go to her house to watch TV because there didn't work. She is a nice caring person.

Carlos: he was mikes brother he is a good person he 17 and acts as a dad. He's a good father figure.

The Internal conflict is that they are felling bad that their dad died and are very scared that they might get sent back to Cuba. They never tell anyone what happened with papa. They have been keeping it in but some of their secrets are coming out. Other internal conflict is that when Michael saw Carlos he wasn't gonna say anything out loud because he didn't want to blow him cover. He was very confused.

An external conflict is when Ellie was watching mike's game she ran away when he looked at her. Another is when mike ran away from the police when they asked for his dad to come down to the station. Some other kind of external is when Raymon stole Mrs. C's purse. Another is when Raymond got hit in the head by mike with the baseball.

The Climax of the story is when Uncle Timo came and acted as their father for a day. Their cover was almost blown but they kept it cool and their Uncle came all the way from Florida to safe them from going back to Cuba. He was the biggest hero in this book.

The 2 main topics of the book is: Family and Hope. I picked family because they are in relations with each other and staying together if they weren't together they would have been sent back to Cuba.

I picked Hope because they have always had hope in each other that they wouldn't get caught with what they were doing.

The Theme of this book is that always keep keep hope because if you have it within your family you can get through anything, so keep your family around because 2 heads are better than 1.

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