Chapter 1

In chapter one of Forged by Fire Gerald burned down his apartment.  What happened was that Gerald was searching for his G.I. action figure when he found the lighter his mother was looking for earlier.  He started playing with it and then it lit. Then the flames got bigger and one curtain caught on fire.  Pretty soon the whole apartment was on fire.  Their next door neighbor saw the flames and thought Gerald might be in there which he was.  So the neighbor got the boy out and took him to the hospital.   If he had been in there a little bit longer he would have died.

Chapter 2

In chapter two Gerald’s mother went to jail for child endangerment and child abandonment, so Gerald was forced to live with his aunt.  Gerald goes to the hospital after the fire and gets treated for inhalation of smoke.

Chapter 3

At Aunt Queen’s house Gerald liked to play on her wheelchair ramp.  Gerald built the go-cart himself and he liked to ride it down Aunt Queen’s ramp then he got bored of that so he rode down his neighbor’s driveway which was a huge hill.  As he was riding down he noticed a black Cadillac and a green Ford coming down the road they both ran over Gerald’s go-cart, but Gerald he was thrown from the cart and hit the trashcan.  The owner of the green Ford got out making sure that Gerald was okay, but the Cadillac kept riding.  The owner of the green Ford went up to the house and Aunt Queen got very mad and screamed at him.  Then Aunt Queen told Gerald that she had an unexpected surprise coming tomorrow.

Chapter 4

Aunt Queen told Gerald that his mother was coming tomorrow.  She told him that his mother had gone to jail for child abandonment.  She also told him she had been out of jail for a year getting her life back together.  Then she told him to go out back to the garage and bring her old sewing machine to her she said it was under the green blanket.  What he found was not a sewing machine but, a shiny, red new ten-speed bicycle.