The Child Buyer
The novel The Child Buyer is a story of an investigation into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, a stranger who comes to the town of Pequot on information of national defense. The business of Mr. Wissey Jones is to buy for his corporation children of certain intelligences, in this case a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, a boy genius of potentially critical value to national defense. A hearing is held and questions are asked, why would someone want to buy a child, and why would someone want to go about not respecting the morality of a human life.This story takes place in a small town in the Northeastern United States. The name of this town is Pequot. It has a population of about twelve thousand five hundred people. They have two high schools, three junior highs and eight elementary schools. There has been large growth in the amount of houses being built in the area. The town has its own general store with all the accommodations of a small town. For entertainment they have a movie theatre and a bowling lanes. During the novel there are many scenes that happen. The main scene in the book is the investigation of the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones. Throughout this investigation there are many people that take
Broadbent was trying to pry open Charles for information about a stink bomb that went off in the auditorium of Lincoln school, with the state Supervisor in it. After a long and tedious interrogation with the witness, the committee realized that they were not getting anywhere. The atmosphere was very over whelming. I think Barry overcame his stress that by believing in himself when no one else would. Throughout the novel there were many characters that had many different traits and have many different ideas that contrast with each other over time. the stand to testify what they know about the new stranger to Pequot. I though that I was unclear at times and a little misleading, it never gave me a sense of what was going on. I think this story for the most part is realistic because it's something that could happen if society eliminated common morality and would sell their own people. During this interrogation many people including Mr. Meanwhile Barry and his street-wise blue-collar friend seek to prevent his sale by a funny act of sexual misconduct on a local women.
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