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Brief Summary Of The Book 'Dualed' By Elsie Chapman

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In the book “Dualed” by Elsie Chapman, we follow a 15 year old girl named West Grayer who lives in the city of Kersh. In this dystopian world, people are trained in advanced combat procedures and how to survive. In order to prove oneself that they are meant to live in this place, they are given an exact clone of themselves that is raised by a different family, that they must kill. West Grayer is your standard teen, long brown hair, average height, nothing to special. She lived with her brother Luc after the rest of her family died. And when Luc’s best friend, Chord, gets his assignment to kill his alt (his alternate) they go track him down. When they find him, Chord kills his alt, but not before Chord’s alt killed Luc. this sends West into …show more content…

But after a while, Chord convinces her to get out of bed. But instead of going to school, she goes to the library where she meets Baer, a teacher of weapons training at the school Chord and Luc went to. He takes her to his classroom where he tests her combat skills. After she shows him that she is more than capable of holding her own, then Baer gives her a card that would allow her to become a striker and get better training to kill her alt and be worthy. After some consideration, she goes to become a striker and gets her first assignment. She goes to the house where her target alt is and misses a killing blow to the heart by a few inches. After finishing the job, she runs home as fast as possible, only to be greeted by Chord and another mysterious man. Little did she know that that man, would give her the assignment. Once active, each alt had 1 month to kill the other or both of them would die. She immediately runs away from her home and from Chord to go hide.a few days pass and she gets her first glimpse of her alt. Same as her, exactly, except she had eyes like ice. After not being spotted, she runs away to hide and survive a little …show more content…

after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him

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