Max loved the story about the Owl Keeper. When Gran disappeared and the silver owls became extinct Max becomes less and less brave. He then finds this mysterious girl named Rose who took him on journeys throughout the book and she kept him away from the evil Dr. Tredegar. Dr. Tredegar and Mrs.Crumlin are both trying to poison Max’s memory which would make him forget Rose and the Owl keeper. Dr. Tredegar uses the InjectaPort on Max every week for his nightmares and allergies that all started when he was 7, around the time of his Gran’s death.
Atticus tells his son that he wanted him to read to Mrs Dubose so he would understand that real courage was not demonstrated by a gun. “I wanted you to see something about her – I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her.
Her French, Boys and Girls, school was abolished because the leaders felt it was inappropriate and against Islam to have Boys and Girls in the same school. Marjane goes through many phases. Marji starts thinking she is the last prophet and has conversations with god every night. Marji’s parents bought her many books on the history of communists and world history. Marji learns a lot from these books and reads them a lot throughout the novel when she is confused.
She also remember the announcement on television about the death of Dr. King in1968, the telephone ringing while the news was been reported and it was her sister calling to say turn the T.V on Dr. king is dead, they killed him as she fell to the floor. At age 40 she Lena completed college and received her masters degree in education and taught seventh grade math and health. The children left home some went to college and the military, got married, had children, bought homes ECT. At age 50 Lena found out she had a brain tumor and had to be hospitalized and had brain surgery. For a year after surgery she suffered from an speech impairment and had to learn how to speak again.
Jem takes a baton from scout and destroys all of her camellia bushes. As punishment jem must go to her house every day for a month and read to her. Scout joins him and they witness her abuse and peculiar fits which happen after every reading. Each session is longer than the one before. Mrs. Dubose dies after the month jems punishment ends.
George states that JJ (3 year old daughter) has been diagnosed as autistic; and his wife is crazy. George tells the caseworker that he takes his 7 year old son, LB, to school each day, picks LB up after school, and takes him to his mother who watches him until George picks him up at night. George states, “she (Teresa) is nuts. She cries a lot, the house is a mess and she is a mess. George says he works hard 40-50 hours a week and brings his entire check home.
Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls. While in the hospital, Sara receives a call from Jesse’s principal informing her of Jesse’s suspension. On the car ride home she notices a bruise on his arm from a needle and assumes he has been using drugs. Jesse angrily explains how he has been donating blood that gave Kate platelets behind the family’s back, in order to “save” his sister. After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being.
I had heard about this opportunity shortly before I decided to join. I have had prior experience with younger kids, being a babysitter for a while now, and I already knew I enjoyed spending time with them, so I was extremely excited to start. It was a privilege to be chosen based on my application, and an even greater one to actually develop relationships with the students. I, along with a partner, had four kids in my group and for five weeks we taught them about peer pressure, self-esteem, stress and other aspects of life. This program is so beneficial for the fifth graders because these are all topics that need to be addressed and the students should know they’re never alone.
Then we went back home and my stomach was still aching. My stomach ached so much that I couldn’t even go to school for a week. After staying at home for one week my parents took me to another doctor because they had a feeling that my stomach ache wasn’t just a stomach ache. After the doctor examined my body, the doctor said that I suffered from appendicitis. The next morning at seven o’clock I had an appendectomy at Bungsu Hospital.
I was like yes mom I just have a little neck pain. It was a little late in the afternoon sop I had to shower and get ready for bed soon, this day was different my mom let me stay up a little later than normal, when I end up trying to go to sleep my neck started killing me, so I had told my mom. Shew said get dressed we going to the hospital ASAP. I cried the whole way there because my neck was in major pain. When we did the x-ray, I messed up some bone in my neck and had to go to therapy for six months to fix it.