Chapters 21-24

Objectives A, B, C

Place yourself in a character's position (walk in their moccasins).  Write about the emotions the character has felt up to now and is also feeling at the moment.  

How can you relate to the character?

Do the character's emotions or situation remind you of something you have experienced?

A new mysterious message arrives on Phoebe's porch: "You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair."

What does this quote mean? Which of the characters does it relate to? Why?

Re-read your assigned passage in context and explain the character's situation.  In other words, what they are going through and what will happen next.

Also explain what each quote says about your character.

Page 130: “…I noticed that inside each was a distinct design. At first it see,ed that every one
was different. There was a cross, a dark scribble, an eye, a mouth, a window.  There
was one with a teardrop inside that I thought
must be Phoebe’s.”

Page 130: “The duplicate designs were: a circle with a large maple leaf in the center, the tips
of the leaf touching the sides of the circle. One
of the maple leaf circles was mine. The other’s was Ben’s.”

Page 132: “ ‘My mother is missing, and my father hands me a dictionary’…
She looked up malinger and read the definition: ‘To pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or
work.’ She slammed the book shut. ‘I
am not malingering.’ ”

Page 139: “Mr. Winterbottom tapped his fork against his knife. Then he stood up, took 
Phoebe’s arm, and said, ‘Follow me.’… ‘If your
mother had been kidnapped by a lunatic, would she have had time to prepare all these meals?
Would she have been able to say, ‘Excuse me,
Mr. Lunatic, while I prepare ten or twenty meals for my family to eat while I am
kidnapped?’ ”

Page 141: “A person isn’t a bird. You can’t cage a person.”

Page 151: “I picked up another rock and sailed it across the gorge, and this one, too, hit the
opposite wall and fell down and down and down.

It was not a river. It was a hole. What did I expect?”