resumen libro Red Water en ingles

Red Water

I

This story begins with a girl called Tricia.
She talked about two important events that happened the same day, at the same time y different parts of the world. It was Thursday May 12th
This two events apparently do not have relation between them.
They are separate events.
The first one is about the murder ( to kill someone) of a man called Winston. This murder happened inAfrica. The killer was a man called "the sweeper" .
Winston worked on a big international company, he just lost his job. He was scared (afraid).
The sweeper went to Winston's house and his wife understood the message. The massage was that the sweeper knows where she and her children live. So she understood they were in danger. She understood his husband was going to dia, but she had to staysilent to protect her children.
The sweeper killed Winston. He killed him and left the body in the trees (bushes)
The company asked the sweeper to kill Winston to silent him.
The Sweeper thoughts no one would find Winston's body.
But the wife told to one person in the village, and this one to another one, and then a group of people found Winston's body. the company said Winston was depressed andkilled himself.

The other event that happened that day, at the same time, was about a girl called Tricia Johnson.
She presented a project in Geography class about how far food travels to get to the supermarkets.
The food that travels from far away have chemicals that make them last longer and are packed with plastic. All this make greenhouse has increase.
She compared that food with carrotsfrom the farmer's market, they are organic and only travelled 6 miles and is covered with paper bag.
When she finished the most good looking boy of the class talked to her and asked her to go to his house. She was very surprised. The boy's name was Daniel Marsh.

II

Daniel was leaned back, tipping his chair. Tricia remembered her mother does not like her to do that. Daniel's mom was verydifferent than Tricia’s mother. Daniel's mom works as an architect and Tricia's mother doesn't, but she was involved in many committees.
Daniel's dad died when he was 2 years old. And nobody talks about him at his home.
Daniel's home was Victorian style, but inside was remodeled into a big open plan, with much natural light, a lot of books and two guitars.
The house was a little mess, but Danielsmom didn’t care about that.
Tricia’s mom instead liked everything in it’s place, also she liked decorating.
Tricia thinks that Daniel's mom is more relaxed than hers and she likes that.
Tricia was very happy about having Daniel as a friend, she was in love with him, and she was happy because he thinks like her.
They talked about carbon trade, and also about Kyoto, a Japanese city where thepresidents signed and agreement to stop climate change and reduce greenhouse gases, thos is called the Kyoto protocol. it was signed by 180 countries, USA did NOT sign it.
Carbon dioxide causes this gases.
Daniel explained Tricia about Carbon Trade, it means that non-polluting countries and companies an sell their "good carbon points" to companies in polluting countries, and in this way keep to akind of global limit.
Thos is a way for companies to contaminate buying carbon points.
Daniel works as volunteer in an organization in his spare time. This organizations is called Carban and they want to ban Carbon Trade.
They are worried for the Amazon rainforest that could soon become a desert.
Daniel says government don't rule, global corporations rule.
Daniel’s organizations isinvestigating about a big carbon- trade deal in African, and they think it is a scam (illegal business plan) financed by a British company.
Daniel does not want to tell this things to his mom because it can be dangerous. Daniel had an informant called Winston. He was a mineralogist working for a company that was building a hydro-electric dam to make electricity for Abidjian. The problem is this...