Jeff

Pages 1-50 Personal Connections

The only major personal connection I found was on page 7; "Then he picked up the phone and dialed the number of his father's house house in that long ago." (Page 7, Paragraph 1). This was a major connection for me because 2 or 3 years ago, I had a dog die, and the first few days after his death, I asked my parents where he was, if he had been fed, things like that. It took a few days for the reality to set in, just like this quote, I don't think the father or son have fully grasped it yet, they still cling on to pieces of the past, because it helps them cope. I probably did what I did for the same reasons, I could not handle it at first so I subconsciously blocked it out.

51-102 Group Director

Do you think the father being so honest with the boy will help or hurt the boy in the long run?

Do you think the word grey being used so much gives the book more hope than if black was used?

Have you developed any sort of connection to the characters yet? Do you find them interesting? Likable?

What do you think the father means when he tells the boy the tracks in the snow could be from "bad guys"? What do you think defines good and bad in a world like this?

102-154 Quotes

"'Let's just sit,' he said. 'We won't even talk.'" (Page 135)

"He took the boy's hand and pushed the revolver into it." (Page 112)

154-230 Vocab

Shuddering- quivering with [|fear], dread, cold, etc. Ex.- The audience staggered away from this slasher flick still shuddering.

Gait- a manner of walking, stepping, or running. Ex.- Every description is accompanied by an illustration, a digital image and the animal's ** gait **.

Flint- a hard stone, a form of silica resembling [|chalcedony] butmore [|opaque], less pure, and less lustrous. Ex.- an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartzthat occurs in chalk. It produces sparks when struck with steeland is used in the manufacture of pottery, flint glass, and road-construction materials.

Corrugate- to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges. Ex.- The corrugate shapes of old harrow-troughs still faintly visible.

Vocab 231-End

Vermiculate- worm-eaten, or appearing as if worm-eaten. Ex.- On their backs were vermiculate patterns...

Leanto- a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts andhaving an inclined roof. Ex.-

Lee- pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee. Ex.- sat in the lee of the dunes...

Cognate- related by birth; of the same parentage, [|descent], etc. Ex.- A sound without cognate...