Ben: Do you remember a time when you had something you wanted to tell someone but were afraid to tell them so you didn’t? What did you do? How did you feel?
As Chapter 30 beings, Moose is still carrying around his worries about what happened when Natalie met 105. He tried to tell his parents “without really telling them” (p157) but did not get his message across. Now he is trying get up the courage to tell his mom what happened. What is his reason for not telling her?
His alternative to the truth is to keep Natalie inside. There is an interesting family thing going on here. His mom knows he is not taking Natalie out but does not confront him? Why not? Instead she takes the buttons with her one day. Does her plan work?
At the end of Chapter 31 Moose has the perfect chance to tell his father about 105 but instead asks him a different question. That was really a hard question to be carrying around and it sounds like Moose has been carrying it for a long time. How do you think he feels about his father’s response?
Monday, December 10, 2007
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Posted by Mr. Z at 6:55 AM
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We learned it is Emily Dickensons birthday today. She is known as one of Americas first great Lyric Poets. Of course we did not know what a Lyric Poet is.
We found that a Lyric Poem is usualy a short, almost song-like, poem that expresses a feeling.
I am wondering what sort of Lyric Poem Moose would write after his conversation with his Dad.
Anyone up for the challenge?
Ben-
Do you see how things are coming to a point in the action where they have to get better somehow quickly or things will end up beyond repair? Like when Natalie wants "OUTSIDE, buttons, 105." p. 167. Moose is so frustrated with her he tells her that he hates her when you know as a reader that he has spent so much time helping her that she can only be loved by him. How will Moose and Nat deal with the frustration that she has of being a prisoner? Moose makes a couple of remarks about how her "eyes... are searching for a way out." Is Natalie in her own kind of prison? Is there someone better in there than we have seen?
Kris-
I would have to disagree with you. If you are a prisoner, you are trapped. What I think is Natalie is in her own world. When something disturbs her world, she gets upset. And in your own world, you would get used to what you like. So when things don’t go her way, she doesn’t get very happy.
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