Melina+Maldonado


 * Melina Maldonado **
 * The Art of The Graphic Novel **


 * THE RUNAWAYS **
 * by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona **


 * The main character of this graphic novel is Alex he is described as very smart,he is the brains of the group when it comes to planning attack and he is very clever. he changes from naive in the beginning of the book to open minded when he discovers his friends and his own parent’s secrets. Alex does the right thing when he tries to turn his friends and his own parents into jail for a murder they witness as the adults sacrifice of a girl who was around the age or alex and his friends. **


 * I can identify with alex when his parents treat him like he's a little kid and make him feel like he does not know what goes on when in reality he knows exactly what goes on. **
 * Another character is nicc she is positive and very hopeful she is wise and dark she also likes alex. **
 * Another character is chase he is described as the popular athlete of his school, his parents get on his case about his bad intentions and how being athletic will not get him a career and he is also the one with derogatory remarks to make. **
 * The time is present day where alex in the beginning of the book is seen playing a video game online and the place is an island surrounded by water. **
 * The setting makes the story more interesting because the novel is based on teens who discover their parents are evil villains but the teens are all stuck on an island so who will they run to for help when there is no where they can run with their parents after them. **
 * the author is mostly trying to say that even teens can do something. The lesson in this is that at some points in time you do have to take action for yourself for something you feel is wrong.The moral from this graphic novel the runaways is that whenever there is something wrong you feel is wrong then you can take action and change it. This story is about courage and the importance of friends. The runaways taught me that what is wrong is wrong and what is right is right and if i feel like something is wrong then i have the right to change it if i feel that it is wrong. One problem in the novel the runaways was that the teenagers found out that their parents are evil so as a solution they try to stop their parents. **
 * In this novel the problems that occurred were the parents of the runaways killed a teenage girl who was no older than the runaways themselves. The runaways find secrets about their parents that they never knew and over the years of growing up they thought they were normal kids with normal lives. another problem that appears is that the kids find out that some of them are not human. They find out that they are supposed to be apart of a villainous group called “THE PRIDE”. The teens start testing their abilities when the parents threaten the youngest of the runaways and they try to protect her. The teens find out that the youngest is a mutant and as they do they try to take her in order to protect her and run off. **
 * I feel that the book would usually take my mind off reality.I liked the fact that the book always got me interested by explaining every teen or runaway member in the book and what they do. What i don't like about the book is that i have to buy volume 2 and it cost so much for me so i have to wait to find out what happens. The story is neither confusing or hard to believe. During the beginning of the story it got predictable but in the middle it had gotten more interesting and to me the story is believable. The ending to me was epic because they stood up to their parents,got their own place and made their own group called the runaways. **