Nathan’s run, published in 1996 used themes and issues, which are present in past and contemporary affairs of society. Juvenile detention, killer teenagers justifying their actions, police corruption, these are all issues found in news and current affairs. Using familiar issues, ideas and themes John Gilstrap creates an attraction between the reader and the story line, producing an interpretation, which could be transferred to a screenplay. A part of the book, which can be, classed …showed first 75 words of 515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 515 total…of communication between the two characters, similar to the conflict, this verbal contact between characters won’t over power the interpretation of the scene. In staging the scene I would re-create the previous scenes with both setting and character styles. The setting holds a lot of information about previous action in the storyline with a hit man being show dead next to Nathan. The run down inner-city road surrounded by police, helicopters and public vigilantes.