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A short summery about the lesson 'the last child'

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Johny Merrimon is a 13 year old adolescent who's twin sister alyssa has disappeared and is assumed abducted from the small town where they live in the hill country of North Carolina. his beloved father Spencer leaves his mother Katherine 2 weeks after the disappearance of their daughter. Catherine has become a pain pill popping agoraphobic whose solace is in drugs and alcohol. She takes up with a cocaine-snorting wealthy developer named Ken hollow way who is physically and verbally abusive to Johnny. the young man has become a school skipping delinquent who is cynical, distrustful of adults and obsessed with finding out what happened to his sister and if possible rescuing her. His partner is another frustrated boy named jack the son of detective cross and a co-worker of detective clyde hunt. The two boys spend their days away from school Tossing Rock through Windows and roaming about like dispossessed souls.
Johnny witnesses at close hand a vicious murder in which a man is thrown from a bridge onto the river banks where he walks the man starts to say he knows where "she" is but dies before he can finish his sentence. Johnny connects the dying man's words with his missing sister and goes on an intensive search.
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