"chronic angers" find it unique that chronic is matched with anger.

'blueblack cold" this sticks out alot to me

another point of wanting to go back to the old days but he cant.

we know this by the way he is saying things, he is describing how it was back then.

wants go back to how the old days were

the title, this shows the significance of this

without this wheelbarrow, the farm they have wouldnt operate properly

they run a farm

they are talking about a experience of when there parent or whoever this is gets drunk, beats them.

alcohol

someones getting beat

this simile gives us a good idea of what there smelling

suggesting this could be some type of hate crime

this could suggest shes a little wealthier

i like how it goes from present time then to a memory then back to present time

beggining of page 5 they are on the way to phoenix

middle of page 3 were getting a memory of victor and thomas

bottom of page 2 victor connects with a old friend

victor and his family are not good finacially.

first page we get some characters and deveolpment of the story.

the ending i feel is what the story was about. They moved into the Italians neighborhoods and messed everything up. And the end kind of proved that to the old Italian.

bottom of 76, we find out where some of them are from. Its a diverse neighborhood.

bottom of 75 "I had never seen a kitten in real life"...that surprised me

top of 74 it says that when they moved in, most of the others moved out..im guessing they are A.A. Also before everyone else moved in the Italians used to grow alot of plants, but now its filled with sofas, weeds, and rusty cars.

bottom of 73 we find out what "old Italian" is.

a simile is also on the bottom of 72..."there were sofas like this, growing like mushrooms in our front yards"

bottom of 72 we get a location..."Corona"

top of 72 we get a setting and some characters.

end of the story... I feel a little sad for them...which is unusual because i dont get emotional towards storys i have read.

bottom of page 26...shocked me very much, we find out that she has signed a lease for a apartment for her to stay at and be alone without shukumar. That was the point of the game, to tell him this news.

page 10 we learn that they are avoiding each other, im thinking because of the death of there baby.

middle of page 10, shukumar is in college for 6 years.

middle of page 9 it is revealed that the baby had been born dead. made me a little sad because it happended all of a sudden.

middle of page 8 we see that Shukumar just kinda stays at home all day and does nothing while his wife works extra hours.

2 characters introduced in paragraoh 2.

end of the story alot of repetition "we learned"

paragraph 130...im questioning why she would say that to a 4th grader.

bottom of 251...the sub. is back

page 251, there teacher is back

middle of 250...the sub. kinda seemed to spook them up a little .

middle of 248 when the narrator says "No one even went to the bathroom". I think this is saying that on a normal school day with no sub. people are always going to the bathroom but since the sub. is talking about interesting things everyone wants to listen.

page 248 para. 80, we get introduced to new setting and characters.

bottom of 246 and page 247 the substitute is talking about the Pyramids and how thats what there teacher had planned for the day...i think the substitute made that up and is teaching them what she wants to teach them.

bottom of 244 and top of 245 when she is saying that when shes around 6x11 equals 68...i think this means a bigger message or it could mean nothing at all.

middle of 243 im confused on why one of the kids keeps saying "Mars"

bottom of 242 we get introduced the substitute teacher and the location where this is all taking place in

start of 242 and middle of 242 we get some character names in the story

start of 242 we get a setting...the classroom of fourth graders.

top of 142 they start to talk about Sonny and if he does heroin. I feel like this is a long awaited conversation.

8th para. we are introduced to another character. Isabel. He also gives us somewhat of a setting. Its spring time .

top and middle of 133 she explains why he needs to look after his brother...cause the world has not changed

top of 133 the mother says that everytime there dad sees a white man he thinks its the guys that killed his brother...this means something.

bottom of 131 and top of 132 we get some insight of more characters known as the parents of him and Sonny and the dads brother that they never knew about.

bottom of 127 he meets up with his brother after a long time of not seeing or communicating with each other.

bottom of 126 we can be seeing a change of story here. He says he has not wrote to Sonny in a long time after the news. This is saying that some time has past since.

page 126, repetions of the word "die". the author is worried for his brother and doesnt want him to die.

page 124, we learn that the author hasnt seen his brother Sonny in over a year.

4th paragraph the author refers to Sonny as his brother.

3rd paragraph we see what happended to Sonny

2nd paragraph we are brought to the name of "Sonny"... something happened to him because the author is scared for him

Second paragraph lots of repetition... "I read"

First paragraph could possibly giving us some background info about what the text could be about. He talks about one of the novels he wrote and it explains how its about the struggles that African Americans went through. This could help us with what the text we are about to read is going to be about.