The attendant must have felt bad for Phoenix. However at least with the nickel, she was able to get her grandson a windmill from paper.

I had to look this word up and it means "stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so"

Why does she go by "Aunt" if it was just a nurse that came in? or is Phoenix really her aunt?

I am assuming that she is blind since she relied on her feet. However, a person feet are the items that get a person from place to place, so maybe she has been there so many times that her feet just taker her.

Even though this story has some great detail about the place and what's going on, I feel like this is all a dream. Somethings in the story, just seem a little odd to me.

Does she have some power that stops things from happening? getting stuck on a brush to me seems like the dress would have torn.

Was she just dreaming that there was a boy?

I really enjoyed this story because it made m think of my great-grandparents. Even though I did not know what everything was, I looked it up and it helped me understand the story more.

this story makes it seem like Mrs. Whitaker collects more stuff than she truly needs. I wonder what she does with it all? and if it all has meaning to her.

I wonder why each of these items came from a different place and what type of message he is trying to give.

This must be Mrs. Whitaker's favorite thing to say. She said it in the store, talking to her friend and now she is saying it to this boy that rang the door.

I am assuming that this is grilled cheese, but I have never heard it this way before. I also think that this story so far is very detailed which puts good images in my head such as the colors of the pills.

I feel like as people age, they all have a routine that they stick to each week. My great- grandma never knows what day of the week it is but she knows when its Sunday because the activities that she does she week.

I think even though they were not the nicest to this angel, he needed someone to help him become strong enough to take off on his flight. I really enjoyed reading this piece because it had a lot of things in it that I did not seeing coming and him flying was one of them.

I do not understand why they are so mean to the angel when he helped the boy get better. Are they scared of him? Or is it truly just because they want him still there to get money off of him?

Looking at the picture, I wonder if their faces were truly the faces on the spider. That was not how I was picturing it when I was reading it.

This reminds me of Beauty and the Beast because he is getting changed into something. I wonder how long they got changed into a spider or if it was something that lasted the rest of their life. Because most people do not like spiders and therefore kill them.

Why mothballs? He was once human so wouldn't he like the human food that he had before he was an angel? I think that the neighbor lady is crazy!

What kind of things did he undo? Why did he undo them in the first place?

This is kinda odd that they locked him up in the chicken coop. Why not in the house where they boy is?

I wonder if this husband and wife are going to take this old man under their wing. Maybe the wife will take care of the young man the way that she is taking care of the sick boy.

I think I would be walking away from this "perfect" place as well. But why do they walk alone when everyone is aware the child?

What happens when the child dies? Does someone else take this over or does the town itself disappear?

Just reading this makes me feel awful. I can not even imagine why one would have to be treated like that with no one even trying to help.

It sounds like the child is in time out. I wonder what the child would have done to be treated like this. Is this why the town is "perfect?" Because if you do not behave you get punishment like that?

I feel like this just turned into a horror story because why would the door be locked and no window?

This racecourse remind me of some type of animal racing because o the flowers. In car races you don't see flower on the side of the track.

This story is very detailed putting a good image in ones head about what is going on.

It sounds like the town just has something to replace something with. Such as the cars or the washing machine. or maybe they travel to get things done or perhaps do things by hand such as washing clothes. Maybe they want the world to be a better place so they take the train and not a car

I wonder why they do not talk about cheer much more. Is it because they live in this "perfect" place that they are not happy with it?

I wonder if these color meant anything or if the people just liked those colors.

I looked up where this city was and it is a waterfront with the Eastern and Southern sides facing the water. It is said to be the place where everything is perfect.

This is a very powerful line. In some cases it could be you alone at the end. Rather it be good or not somethings just have to be done alone.

What made the papa drink so much? Was it work and stress so it was like his "escape?" Or did he drink just because?

I wonder what kind of buckle there are talking about. Is it like a belt buckle, a pant buckle, or a snap like buckle?

This makes me think that he did not want to go to bed. Most little kids when they do not want to do something when by someone they know really well, will cling to shirts.

This must be December 21st because that is the shortest day of the year.

Does this mean that he wants the Kraken to die when he awakes? Or is this part of a dream because it seems to me that the Kraken is dreaming about something.

I wonder what they are doing that ruined the fun. Was it the sun coming out in the middle of the night?

This is a metaphor because Oysters can not actually wash their face or wear shoes.

This word means to ask someone urgently to do something

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I was not sure what kind of bird this was so I looked it up and this is what I found. Not sure if it is really that type of bird. When I read the line above, the first thing that came to my mind was a chicken.

Every time I see this word I think of " Twas the night before Christmas."

I wonder why they decided to talk about the summer and the winter seasons. But I find it interesting that it started and ended with summer.

Does this mean that his forehead was shiny?

To me this kind of words sound like the king just want to give up and feels like there is no hope

I had to look this up because I thought it was some person but it is actually a sword

I think that this piece so far is hard for me to read because of how the words are wrote. I have always been one to struggle with words if they are not how I am use to seeing them, which I know is how they use to write, but why do you think that is?

I am picturing this as one of those things that has a blade in the middle and a person stuck their head in between and someone pulled the rope. I can not think of the name.

I was not sure what this meant and it means to steal goods from a place or a person. Hope this helps others as well as it did me.

I like how the author put in words to help with the sound efforts. This really helps me visualize the picture that I think he is trying to get across to us as readers.

It is interesting to me that almost all stories have a bad guy to them. But this reminds me of the song outcast just because I can really relate to it when I moved out of Sterling.

I picture this a large wide road with maybe a few bumps along the way with a few t-off places.

This remind me of when I was a little girl mutton busting. I hated the feeling of the wool because of how greasy it actually was underneath.

Why would one need a walking stick the size of a black ship? How would one even be able to carry that around?

This reminds of a really bad storm especially being out in the sea and being a cruise during a bad storm so no fun so I can not even imagine what it would be like for nine days. Also, it reminds me of those two days that Sterling had that really bad wind.

I always find it interesting in stories that when there is more than one sibling, the story tends to just focus on one of them.

This little saying reminds me of a lot of wild animals because a lot of them come out at night and hide during the day

Depending on age, I think that boys have a harder time listening to mothers because they like the father figure and therefore they pay more attention to what they want to be like. But then again I think it can go both ways because in my family I always listened to my dad over my mom because he had a deeper voice and when I was little that was scary to me.

Take illegally or by force

Paid for the release of a prisoner

This reminds me of my dad because if he could not get something for my sister and I it bothered him.