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Landon Johnson 1/8/18
On page 17 Contrast and Contradiction “He looked terrified like I’ve never seen him before.” Because usually Jeffrey is a very tough boy yet he was terrified meaning that he was scared he has a disease which is why he is so scared the disease is deadly as in you will die unless you are treated.

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On page 13, Steven said “ If I live to be a hundred and seventy-nine, I will never forget October 7th of this year.” Saying that if he lived to be old, he would never forget this tragic memory.

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Page 19

Again and again “Defensive, dad? DEFENSIVE?

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Landon Johnson 1/9/18 Contrast and Contradiction On page 19 it states that “I’ve never seen my mom take one of our injuries so seriously before.” Meaning that his mother never took an injury so seriously because it is realy serious they never had this happened before.

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Landon Johnson 1/9/18 Contrast and Contradiction On page 20 it says “For once I went to get my brother something without saying a word.” Meaning that he is scared or afraid because his brother’s nose is bleeding really hard and bad and that Steven is frightened for his brothers “Injury.”

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Landon Johnson 1/9/18 Contrast and Contradiction On page 22 it states that “The car was 100% silent I couldn’t stand it anymore I put the radio on but then my dad turned the radio off which was very unusual for him.” Again it is unusual for him to turn it off meaning that Steven’s Dad is very scared and worried for his younger child and all he could do was to think about Jeffery.

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On page 27
Again and again "PRIVATE "

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Landon Johnson 1/11/18 A-ah Moment on page 28 Steven notices that Annette always knows when something is wrong and that she pops up whenever something is wrong. Meaning that Steven realizes Annette knows that something is wrong probably from Steven’s actions like not doing homework (etc).

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Page 34
Again and again
"Ignore her"

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“Not every one get be a protector.” And “ I was having second thoughts about this whole “protector.” And also I have always protected Jeffrey.

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On page 40, mom said “How did I not notice?” Meaning that mom is pointing out that it was dumb of her to not notice that Jeffy was limping and how he was also saying that his “parts” hurt and she just ingnored him.

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Landon Johnson 1/17/18 Words of the Wise

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Landon Johnson 1/17/18 Words of the Wise

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On page 37 it states that Steven’s grandfather gave Steven a big pep talk about how it is very important to be a big brother and it comes great responsibility. This important to the story because it shows how he would be the protector of his younger brother yet while he was, his brother got cancer.

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Max testa  1/17/18

"So how come when I wasn’t looking he got cancer?”

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“ Adjustment? Adjustment? Getting a new car is a adjustment. Switching math classes is an adjustment. Finding out your brother has leukemia - supposedly- and that your mom is now unemployed and that they’re running off to the city in the morning. Leaving you and your father to starve to death alone, is not an adjustment.”

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On page 66
Steven's mom says to Steven "Your brother is a very very sick boy." This shows that Jeffery is not doing so great and he's sicker than Steven and his family thought.

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Landon Johnson 1/22/18 Words of the Wise

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Landon Johnson 1/22/18 Words of the Wise

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On page 72 Steven’s mom says “We have to be really careful with what Jeffery eats for a while.” Tells the reader and Steven that it will be a long time before this cancer will be over and that cause of that there will be a lot of adjustments to there family including what Jeffery eats.

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On page 65, it said “Jeffrey never, ever used to sleep on car rides.” The story is describing how Jeffrey was always an active kid and for him to be sleeping in a car is not normal of him, and rhat his sickness is really getting to him.

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Pg. 58

Dad, how about sometimes this week, just for kicks, you try making eye contact with me.

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Pg. 65“ Jeffery never, ever used to sleep on car rides”

Steven said that Jeffery never used to sleep on car rides. But now that Jeffery is Sick he’s sleeping on car rides. So he must be really sick

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On page 69
When Steven was thinking about how sick Jeffery is he said " My brother was really sick, so sick that they had to stick a needle in him to take out the marrow from his bones." When Steven says "Sick, so sick." Shows that Steven knows that this is worse then they thought it was.

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On page 78
When Steven is talking to his mom his mom brings up the word stressful, and Stevens response is " Stressful STRESSFUL!

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On page 73, it said “ And I realized I actually wasn’t mad at him.” Meaning that Jeffrey used to annoy Steven and after thinking about Jeffrey a lot, he wasn’t mad after all he has gone through.

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Pg. 89-90
" for about half hour I tried to get him to play checkers, but he finally just wiped the pieces off the board and told me to go away”

Every time Jeffery would want to play checkers with Steven, Steven would say no. But then when Steven wanted to play checkers with Jeffery, jeffery wiped the pieces off and told him to go away. So I think that Jeffery must be really sick because usually if Steven asked Jeffery to play checkers Jeffery would say yes but now that Jeffery is sick he said no

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Pg.74
"Now let’s rush the taste out of your mouth and go... i don’t know...ummm...how about a drum lesson?”

Jeffery threw up. And Steven felt bad so Steven just told Jeffery to brush his teeth to get throw up taste out of his mouth.

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“Dad, how about sometime this week, just for the kicks, you try making eye contact with me”, I think this part is important because at that point in the book they find out that Jeffry has leukemia and steven thinks the doctors were wrong but his dad and him haven’t talked in a while. He was fed up with his dad.

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On page 111
"We chuckled awkwardly, but atleast  it was a chuckle”

When Steven said that it means that they chuckled it means that they hadn’t laughed in a while because of the situation

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On page 109 it states that Steven played the drums “Played the drums, Played the drums, Played the drums.” Is again and again and this is important because it means that Steven wants to distract himself to forget what the nurses did to Jeffery for example he says to his dad that “They stabbed him they stabbed Jeffery” then began to cry. Realizing this is seriously

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“She usually doesn’t leave the house with sweatpants on” means that the mom is serious but at that time Steven didn’t really realize

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On page 98
Steven said "Why is that an emergency?" This shows that Steven doesnt know that a fever is important I this situation.

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On page 98
Steven said "What does this mean?" This quote shows that Steven is curious for his brother in this situation.

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On page 98
Steven said "Where's Dad?" This quote shows that Steven thinks that his dad should be there because of how sick Jeffery is.

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On page 103
Stevens mom said "How expensive is an ambulance ride?" This quote shows that Steven's mom wants an ambulance ride for him but she is concerned about the price.

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What would happen if Renee Albert and Annette never existed?

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On page 111
"I had an odd realization

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Max testa
What would have happened if Jeffry didn’t fall of the chair or what would happen if Steven did kiss Renee Albert?

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On page 127 it states “If Annette hadn’t told Miss Palma who did.”
This means that Steven wants to know who told her.

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On page 119
"The silence fell over us again”

What this means is that Steven got sent to the councler and he has to tell what’s going on

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On page 115 Steven said “ Annette! This has nothing to do with you. It’s a family thing, and I’m fine. I’m fine.” Annette said “so you’re not mad at...” Steven said “I said I’m fine.” Steven kept repeating “I’m fine” because he wasn’t ready to talk about the subject of Jeffrey having cancer.

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On page  135 “ I wished for my own baby brother to be hospitalized just so i wouldn’t have to play some one-sided chutes and ladders games.

This means that Steven really wants to concentrate on his homework but his little brother keeps asking if he wants to play

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On page 136 Steven said “Beware. BEWARE!” This statement is part of Stevens speech and talking about how to be careful with  your good and evil.

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On page 141
Mr. Watras asked Steven if he was practicing Ateven said "I was practicing my tissue basketball skills." Then Steven got embarrassed because he was talking to his teachers. This shows that this is unlike Steven.

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On page it 132 says “Why didn’t they try being “lucky” like Jeffery for a month” Meaning that he wants them to feel how Steven feels about Jeffery.

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“ my dad was slumped over a pile of papers with his head cradled in his hands. And he was crying.”

Steven saw his dad slumped over a pile of papers and he was crying

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On page 144
Renee is now showing that she knows who Steven is. This shows that she now only has interest in Steven because of Stevens sick brother Jeffery.

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Why was dad crying

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What do you think the inside joke was

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On page 155 Steven said " I noticed something interesting she was much more patient and honestly excited to play with him than I was." This shows that Steven noticed that Renee really likes hanging out with Jeffery and she likes giving him company.

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On page 155 “Annette was much more patient and honestly excited to play with him than I was” which means that Steven notices that Annette cares and knows what they must be going through.

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On page 167
Steven dad started yelling at Steven for not calling his mom and instead he played his drums. Stevens dad said since he was in a meeting that was super important they would have to pay $200. Steven didn't realize that it was so important to call his mom.

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On page 168 it states “Irresponsible! IRRESISTIBLE!” (Also first paragraph) Means Steven is trying to get through to dad to explain that how he wasn’t the only one irresponsible.

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On page 169
Stevens dad said " You're right Steven I have not been talking to you, and I haven't care of anyone." This shows that Stevens dad didn't realize what he was doing wrong.

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Why was Jeffery’s arms all bruised up?

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Why did Steven feel sorry?