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How has the protagonist changed in the story?

The protagonist Billy Halleck changes throughout the first 6 chapters. In the first chapter Billy is a cocky man and is not scared of anything. In the chapters to come thought he starts to worry more and gets panicky. Instead of his confident demeanor he now is more jumpy and irritable. Besides his mental state he also changes physically. In the first chapter Halleck is a 249 pound man but in the following chapters he is dropping weight incredibly fast. This is how the protagonist has changed throughout the first few chapters.

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Advice

I would like to give advice to Halleck. When he ran over the gypsy woman he should of served time in jail instead of getting a judge that would bail him out. If he did this than maybe the gypsy man wouldn’t have put a curse on him to get thinner. This curse will probably lead to him getting so thin that he will die.

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If you give your book a different title what would it be?

I would keep the title of the book because it fits the story perfectly. In the story a man on the Heavier side hits a gypsy women and doesn’t get chartered for man slaughter. This leads to a Gypsy man to curse him to make him grow thinner everyday. At first it’s a nice change but later on things get worse and worse.

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What came as a surprise in the book?

A big surprise for me is that Billy Halleck didn’t get any repercussion for hitting the Gypsy lady. You would think he would have to do something but no he doesn’t. Instead he gets of easy and doesn’t lose a single point on his driver’s license. Even though he didn’t mean to hit her he should have been more careful and should have been aware of people who might come out from behind a parked car.

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A certain passage I looked In the book was when Halleck was describing the Gypsy children. They way he described it was that the children were beautiful yet ugly. Mysterious and dangerous yet alluring. He described the Gypsy people as someone might describe a lion. Beautiful and bright yet dangerous and scheming.

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I was feeling very distressed after reading Halleck’s inner monologue. I am nervous that he might actually have cancer and that would explain his vivid hallucinations. I’m beginning to think that the real horror in this book isn’t a curse but an actual condition.

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The story would be very different if it was told by a different character. If it was told by a different character then we would never hear Billy’s trauma. All we would hear is the worry of the family as Billy slowly got thinner. If this happened then we probably would have never know about the Gypsy man and what he said.

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Advice

Advice I would give Halleck would be to apologize to the Gypsy man. At this point Halleck is in a dire situation. He keeps getting thinner and thinner to the point where he can die from how thin he is. If he in anyway hopes to live he should apologize to the Gypsy man and pay for his crimes of hitting and killing the Gypsy man’s wife.

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In what ways are you like any of the characters?

I am kinda like Halleck for I too don’t like to look at the facts head on. In the story Halleck puts off going to the doctor out of fear for what the doctor might say. I too put stuff of for fear of what my current state of reality is.

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The purpose for which I believe the author wrote this book was to give the reader a horrible thrill. The book makes us believe that the main character has cancer when in reality it is an outside force that is harming him.

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What were your feelings after reading a certain passage of the book?

After reading the first passage of the book I was given the feeling of a mundane life. Though as I read more I started to feel an eerie feeling even though everything seemed normal and somewhat happy.

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I belive that when the astroid hits the moon it will cause the end of the world instead of a small indent. This will then cause the main character to struggle through an apocalypse which can lead to a drastic character change.

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What came as a surprise to you? Why?

When the astroid hits the moon, the moon starts to become bigger and tilted. Meaning the moon was getting closer causing everyone to panic. What came as a surprise  to me was instead of the main characters mom panicking she says “No the world is not ending, and yes you have to go to school tomorrow “ What she said makes you think that the mom doesn’t see how much of a problem the situation really is.

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Discuss the conflict in the story. How will it be resolved?

An astroid has just hit the moon causing the moon to move closer to earth. This causes mad tidal waves to happen all over the world. Most of the city’s and land near the ocean has either been submerged or washed away. I don’t believe there is any current way to fix this problem. The only solutions are to either fix the moon (this is very unlikely since the book takes place in present time) or to find a way to live with the new moon.

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Which character would you like to be in this book and why?

I would like to be the mom of the main character. If I was the mom then I could help calm down the situation and make a better survival plan for the main character. I feel like the original mom in the story is not as cool headed as I can be in a situation. This is why I want to be the mom of the main character in the story.

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What similarity’s are found in the book that relate to present life?

In the story the main family and many other family’s raid grocery stores and other stores because they believe the world is ending. This relates to present day because when people first went in lockdown From the pandemic People raided stores. The raiding has died down recently but there are still people who are stock piling. There are even regulations now on how much of one product you can buy.

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Describe how the protagonist in your book changes, or predict how they might change later in the story.

Miranda changes her option on school quite a lot. Before the moon incident she hated school. She didn’t like going to school or doing her home work. Though now that she can’t have a normal school year she misses school greatly.

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What do you belive will happen next?

I belive that what happens next is that the Great Lakes that are located by Illinois will start to flood. This will lead to more damage problems and less drinking water in Miranda’s home area. I also believe that some marine life that usually is at the bottom of the ocean will start to surface and come onto land because the tide has changes.

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What would happen if this book took place in a different time period?

If the book took place in a different time period then the scientists may not have even known the asteroid would hit the moon. The people in the book may also panic more and have no means of communication because there may not be phones created yet. Also if this book took place in the future then maybe it wouldn’t have mattered if the moon hit the earth because humans might not have even been on earth.

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What did you not expect to happen.

In the beginning, I did not expect that the students would return to school. If anything, I expected the government to evacuate everyone and to set up rations for the now impending doom caused by the moon that is now closer to earth. In addition, gas is becoming scarce and it takes gas to take your kids to school unless kids walk for hours to get there. I thought due to this crisis, they should’ve been better prepared for the unknown. Later, schools and shops do close and food runs out as I predicted. However, I did not expect their water to run out as quickly as it did and for everyone to get the flu except for Miranda.