Jenna

__**VOCAB:**__PG (1-50)

EX: Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. (1)
 * granitic: **an adj used to compare anything to a type of igneous rock in terms of extreme hardness, durability, etc

EX: He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark w/ his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his  skull cranked out their reckoning (15)
 * vestibular: adj used to describe a small chamber or anteroom **

EX: a lardcan poured w/ concrete w/ an eyebolt in the center (13)
 * lardcan: ? **

 EX: they were days fording that cauterized terrain (14)
 * cauterized: **to burn with a hot iron, electric current , fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes

EX: people sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes (32)
 * immolate: usually verb-to be destroyed by fire-sacrifice, etc. **

EX: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">high rock bluffs on the far side of the canyon with thin black trees clinging to the escarpment (37)
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">escarpment: ** a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land, rock, orthe like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust

EX: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">the hot black mastic sucking at their shoes and stretching in thin bands as they stepped (48) >referenced black tree earlier
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">mastic: a species of tree's sticky resin/adhesive **

__**PERSONAL CONNECTIONS:** **Pages (51-102)**__


 * Have you ever had to get rid of something you cared about but didn’t know how you could keep hold of it? That it was not a necessity? (51)-reference father emptying wallet-even of picture**


 * Have you ever felt like things were just so bad, things going wrong, that you ever wished you were dead? (55) – reference child wanting to be w/ mother (dead)**


 * Have you ever been in such shock from something happening that you couldn’t talk, just kept quiet and gone through those moments as if they weren’t real? (68)- child went mute after saw father shoot man holding him hostage**


 * The child hated his dad leaving his side for even a moment; he was so scared to be left alone. Have you ever felt this way? (71)**
 * -**When left alone in my house sometimes at night**…**

-seeing someone in a terrible car wreck wanting to help out but knowing I didn’t have enough experience at the time to be of any use… seeing someone get bullied and wanting to help but are too afraid of stepping in…fear, anger
 * Have you ever wanted to help someone but know you can’t do anything? How did you feel, and what did you do? (85)- child saw another child**

__**QUESTIONS (102-154)**__


 * Could you kill yourself to keep from a worse pain?** (114)

"They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised his pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us" (132) **Can you imagine what it must be like to not even know what you look like-how would you feel seeing yourself for the first time in a long time, and to find that not only do you look different, but filthy and sick?**

"If you're on the lookout all the time does that mean that you're scared all the time" (151) **What do you think-are you constantly on the lookout?**

__**QUOTES (154-230)**__


 * //"What are our long term goals"// (160). Do you think there are any other goals besides staying alive? If so, what are they?**


 * //"He looked down at the old man. Perhaps he'd turn into a god and they to trees"// (163) What do you think the father means by this?**


 * //"Or you might wish you'd never been born. 'Well beggars can't be choosers....Anyway, it's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these..."// (169)** I took this too mean death would be a luxury**, how'd you interpret it?**


 * //"He made train noises and diesel horn noises but he wasn't sure what these might mean to the boy"// (180)** I thought this was important b/c he was trying to play w/ his son even in these times though he had early stated that he didn't know how he could anymore (pg 154).


 * //"I always believe you. 'I dont think so.' Yes I do. I have to"// (185) What does this mean to you-how'd you interpret the boy's words?**


 * //"...lost moon tracked the caustic waste he'd sometimes see a light. Dim and shapeless in the murk"// (188)** I thought this could be a metaphor for hope.


 * ".//..limit to what they could take in the cart. It occured to him he took this windfall in a fashion dangerously close to matter of fact//" (229)** Recognizes their situation-matter of fact **= acceptance/give up?**


 * "//There were few nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead//" (230)-->** goes back to 3rd quote, death = luxury


 * PERSONAL CONNECTION** (230-end)

When the little boy was sick it reminded me of how scared I would get when I was and how similar that was. (247-248)

I had a family member who recently passed away from her sickness and when the little boy finally realized that his father wasn't going to get better, it made me think of how I felt when I realized she wasn't getting better and would pass away soon-she died not long after. (279)

"She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time" -I sort of made a religious connection to this statement b/c being raised Roman Catholic, we're taught that God is in all of us, that we are one w/ Christ, etc. (286)