Margaret Peterson Haddax's Among The Betrayed

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Among the Betrayed Imagine living in a society that allows no more than two children per family. I read the suspenseful book Among the Betrayed. I chose this book because I knew Margaret Peterson Haddax was an excellent writer. First, I will go over if I believe the science in this book. Secondly, I will cover the plot in the story. Lastly, I will describe my opinion of the book. No one ever would want to go through betrayal. To begin with , the science in this book is a society not allowing third children. Population Police control and kill third children. Many illegal children hide or get fake identities. Its not easy getting fake identities for these children. This society had to bring down the population because there was not enough food to supply for the rapid growing population. I do not believe that our country would ever control the population like that. More people…show more content…
Nina gets thrown in prison because the police thought she was helping a guy named Jason plan a way to get these certain third children caught with their fake identities. In prison, Nina is forced to betray three young children to live. Nina spends time in an old, nasty, dark prison with the children. Nina must find out everything about these children’s lives to report it all to the police. Nina doesn’t get any information squeezed out of the kids. When getting questioned upstairs, Nina finds the keys for the cell on the table and she secretly steals them. Nina doesn't know if she should go back and get the kids, or take off on her own and let the kids die. She decides to go and get the kids. They all escape, escaping very smartly. They run off to a forest and live there for a while. In the end, Nina finds out the whole prison, kids, and betrayal project was just a test to see if Nina would actually betray them. If she did betray them she would have died. It was a test if Nina was a trustworthy girl. No one would want to experience

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