Among The Imposters- Post 1/4 Luke Garner masked himself for the sake of his family, he masked himself from society. In a crumbling world, the third child in any family is meant to be cast away due to a government that can't sustain the population. His whole life has been spent running and hiding from the Population Police, and now in "Among The Impostors" by Margaret Paterson Haddix, he takes the importance of his family to full lengths by changing his name. Change in Luke's life came when he walked into Hendricks School for Boys as a new person. Mr. Talbot, who watched over Luke, got him into this school for invisibility against the Population Police. The school's not what he expected, as he's tormented at night by memories of his past life and a jackal-like bully. The hallways and classes are grotesque, and Luke's sucked into a black hole of confusion. The school doesn't even have windows... Mr. Talbot had given Luke a note in the headmaster's office while Luke was inducted into the school. Seeing this as an aide, Luke drives himself crazy as he tries to find just one little place to read it. Finally, a door leads him outside the school and into the woods. The note is revealed, and only bears two words; "Blend in". This enrages Luke, his mind spins with life altering decisions. Should he go back to the cruel minefield of a school, or risk his life and the life of his family to go back to his family farm? Luke's always made tremendous sacrifices for his family, and with thought of their love, he decides to do back into the Hendricks School for Boys. Luke's obviously confused with himself, and lets the people in his life affect his physical and mental decisions. The school hasn't helped; as a child he hardly saw the outside world, much as there are no windows in this dark school. There seems to be a trend going on... The death of his friend Jen has haunted him, but confounds him because she had an aggressive attitude against everything. It's an attitude that Luke wishes he could have. So, he doesn't know to go against or with Mr. Talbot, seeing that he's her father. As you've read, Luke's character is confusing to himself and to anyone else who's reading. I guess you'll have to read on to really understand this character.Among The Impostors- Post 2/4 Before long, Luke finds a sort of harmony in the outside world. He begins a garden, in the woods. For once at the wretched school, he's happy. The more he goes outside to his garden, the more he thinks of the school as a chess game. He's just a pawn, sacrificing himself for something bigger than he is. Luke comprehends the fact that the hall monitors are always looking at the door to the outside world, and decides to follow the monitors and their allies outside in the cold night. Through out the conversation that Luke overhears while a group of students meet, he realizes that they too are third children. But the fact that Jackal Boy (BULLY) was in the group made him weary of his decisions. Courage arises, and Luke steps out from behind the tree to be seen. As he's inducted into the group of third girls and boys, he spins stories of the days when he talked and hung out with Jen. Apparently, this was awe inspiring to the others. He told the story of the Third-Child rally in front of the White House, and how every living soul was murdered. Luke still hasn't come to terms with how the school works, and still hasn't come to terms with the absence of his family, and Jen. Maybe this new group will help him, maybe they'll drive him crazy. Who knows, you'll just have to read on!Among the Impostors- Post 3/4Third child group meetings kept going on, but at a steady pace things have changed. Jason (Jackal boy) plans to lead a resistance against the overpowering tyrant government. One night, everything changes.With Luke hard pressed to study for school finals, he makes the decision of skipping the meeting to study. In the midst of the night, Jason leaves the bedroom, Luke follows. Before long, Luke has no idea where Jason has gone, but hears faint mumbling. The mumbling was coming from Jason's mouth...Luke walked down the stairs to where Jason was with a whisper of the foot, so not to be seen. Jason is giving the real names of his own allies, and ends the cell-phone discussion with the words, "They don't know I'm part of the Population Police."Luke scrambles to tell Mr. Talbot, and it pays off. The following day, Jason was taken in custody by the population police, and the other third children were safe. All of this happened thanks to Mr. Talbot.In the past fifty pages, Luke has been guilty for his actions, as well as confused of what he should do. He still aspires to act like Jen, the rebel. He has some personal gratification as Jason is taken away to be killed, by the Population Police that he himself had worked for.Among The Impostors- Post 4/4In the final pages of "Among The Impostors", Luke is finally given information to clarify the whole situation that has turned his life inside-out. He personally speaks with Mr. Talbot, and the schools namesake, Mr. Hendricks. It turns out that the person he trusted, Jason, was either bribed by the Population Police to do their dirty work, or he was fighting for a cause that he believed in.Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Talbot mutually proposed the idea of Luke moving to another school. Although it seemed like a logical decision, Luke chose to stay at the school. He would keep masking himself for the sake of the other third children.In the woods, Luke and the other children planted a garden of peas. Trey, who wouldn't open his eyes to the outside world, finally opened them as he planted a new seedling into the ground."Among The Impostors" was based around foreshadowing and the need to ask questions. Is there betrayal? When is he going to die? What's wrong with the school? Those questions and foreshadowing of character, and plot brought me to the conclusion that "Among The Impostors" gets 4.5/5 stars. It was just one of those books that you can hardly put down, not for the cliche reasons though. The most common question that came up when reading this book was, "Could this ever really happen in the world's future?" As you can see, "Among The Impostors" is a bit of a confusing ride, but the thought of it happening, and certain plot changes, will ultimately keep you reading.Recommendation: Ultimately, anyone can read this book. The idea and plot aren't very difficult to grasp. Although that's true, the prospect of this really happening could be a potential scare to children younger than ten, whilst a ten year old can comprehend what's going on and realize it'll never happen.
*Spoiler alert* Do you like books that keep you on the edge of your seat? Well, if you so this is the book for you. This book is realistic fiction because the things that happen in this book could happen in real life. I think this book is better than the first book (Among the Hidden) because this book seems more suspicious and interesting. The setting takes place in Hendricks's School for boys, which is a windowless building with cruel classmates and mean teachers. Luke wanted to be just like Jen and save all the third children that were treated wrong and neglected by there families but since he had to go to a windowless school he had no contact of the outside world. So one day he decided to sneak outside and when he went outside he saw a group of boys and girls talking about all of them being third children. Then when he reveals himself to the group he tells them that he is a third child to. After that later on the group finds out that one of there group members (Jason) worked for the population police and he wanted them to turn all the group members to the population police so they can be punished. Luckily Luke was able to save them by knowing one of the officers (Jen dad) that helped him trick the police and think that Jason is a third child. The conflict for this story is person vs. country because in order to change the law of only having two kids you have to go against the country. Among the impostors is a good title for this book because Luke and the other group members were using fake identities so they won't be found by the population police. According to the text Luke fake name was Lee Grant and he was to suppose to act like a rich boy at the school since that boy is very rich and he is no where near rich. The best thing that I like about the title is that it sounds very interesting when you say it in your head. The point of view for this story is told in third person because the narrator tells the whole story even though he is not in the book. According to the text the author uses a lot of he and his which is another reason why this book is told in third person. I liked the way the author wrote what Luke was thinking in his head to help us imagine what type of person he is. I was surprised when Jason got arrested by the population police even though he is not a third child because it sounded like Jason was on the police side when he talked to them on the phone. I think Jason never liked any of the kids that were in the group because he was always mean to them and he was bossing them around. According to the text Jason wanted to find out all the real names of the peopled in the group. I had predicted that Luke was going to get killed by the police because in the book it seemed like all odds were against him. According to the text Jason was one of the leaders of the group which made me even more surprised when I read that he worked for the police. I think that Jason is one of the biggest traders in the world because he practically wanted everybody in the group killed. I would give this book 4 stars because it was amazingly wrote and it never got boring. I would recommend this book to people who like mystery books because this book is one of the most mysterious books of them all. In conclusion, if this book review made you want to read this book then you should because it is a really great book.
What do You think about Among The Impostors (2002)?
Margaret Peterson Haddix has created a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole entire time. Among The Impostors is a book that is about a character named Luke. Luke has a few huge problems that he is forced to overcome.Luke is a shadow child. A shadow child is a child of a family that it the third or more. It is illegal to be a shadow child because there is a food shortage in the country. He does not got to school and lives with the government not knowing. There are many shadow children that the Population Police do not know about. Luke's family realizes that the best for him is to send him to a boarding school and have a fake identity. Luke had a good friend that was a very brave shadow child named Jen. She tried to stand up to the Population Police, but was killed in the act. Jen's dad was a government official that offered to help Luke with the school, and he gave him the fake I.D. His new name was Lee Grant. He had trouble at the school at first. The teachers didn't care, and didn't even know the names of the students. Luke soon started skipping classes once he had found a door leading outside. He spent most the time out there, and even tried building a garden. Until the next day the garden was destroyed. He went out there at night and heard voices. It happened to be a meeting ground for other shadow children from his school, and the school for girls not too far away. He soon befriends these kids, but he seems to think something is wrong. He learns new things about these people, and learns a lesson one night, trust no one.Anyone that likes action, and heartwarming parts would like the book, Among The Impostors. It is a pretty quick read, especially when you can't stop reading it. I liked this book a lot, and do not dislike anything about it. Haddix puts everything together so well to make an unbelievable story. This book keeps you reading, and thinking, could this ever happen.
—Aaron Clark
In Among the Impostors Luke Garner is a shadow child who is sent to a private school to try and blend in.Luke is going by the name Lee Grant so he is not captured by the Population Police.The whole book is just about Luke getting used to his school.The reason I picked this book is because I had 2 days to write a book report and this was the shortest thing I could find.I never really understood Among the Hidden because if there was a third child rule I would be the stupidest person on earth if I had another child (cough cough Luke's parents).Anyway all this book is is Luke going to school and finding shadow children.This school sounds like a ghetto school where you're supposed to room with jerks and where teachers explain nothing.Luke is roommates with a bunch of jerks who boss him around and call him words like "exnay".The teachers are dumb because they know that Luke is new but have him figure out the whole place by himself because the kid who was supposed to show him around was a retard.I just have one question for Margaret Peterson Haddix:Why?
—youmakeyourselfanartist
This is about a boy as he takes a fake identity and goes to a boys boarding school where everyone is an over the top bully or crazy and no one does anything about it. I'd buy into it because the first book had weak world building too, just because the characters are all very sheltered. But its just over the top, his roommate making him do like 100 push ups a night. This is a boy who had been imprisioned inside for like half a year, he shouldnt be physically capable of this. It's impossible to buy into this surreal world of bullies who control the school. They don't even have any class schedules, they just shuffle around going to random classes while the teachers have no idea what anyone's name is so if anyone's identity is compromised they don't slip. Just all around a stupid book.
—Inukie
