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Section/Pages: Chapter 3
Members Present: Everyone

Discussion Highlights:
- Rawlins is stabbed three times while walking across the yard
- It is unclear whether or not he is alive
- Just how powerful is Perez?
- He seems to know just about everything that is taking place in the prison
- John Grady is able to defend himself against the assassin
- Prediction: John Grady will gain respect/power at the prison for defeating the man hired against him

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Section/Pages: Chapter 1-2
Members Present: Everybody

Discussion Highlights:
- Book is very confusing at times:
- No grammar makes conversations hard to follow, and we have a hard time figuring out which person is talking
- Uses very descriptive language during sections, sometimes unnecessary descriptions for random items
- Grady Cole seems to have a lot of family problems and trauma
- The father seems to not have a care in the world anymore about anything except for smoking
- Why did the Mom leave the family to pursue an acting career somewhere else did she not realize that she had a family the loved and cared for her
-Book has followed a formula so far of riding horses, meeting people in a town, eating with them, then going riding again
- It seems like the book is about to get really interesting, as Blevins is trying to steal his horse back from a town and he might get caught

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Name: Matteo Moscheni
Email: 25418mm@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Sean Ginnane
Email: 25154sg@chaminade-hs.org

Name: David Mijango
Email: 25273dm@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Alex Jean-Louis
Email: 25459aj@chaminade-hs.org

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Read what you’re supposed to read

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Section/Pages: Chapter 4 (Finish the book)
Members Present: Everyone

Discussion Highlights:
- Many long conversations in this part, switching between thoughts and what is actually being said, making them very confusing
- There are also long Spanish conversations with no translation, so we don’t know what half the conversations are saying
- John Grady goes back to the town after leaving the prison
- Rawlins goes home, leaving John Grady alone
- John Grady calls Alejandra to meet with her one last time, and after they meet she decides that she cannot abandon her family for him and leaves back to the ranch
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Meeting 1 Date: Apr. 22
Pages / Section: To Chapter 2 End

Meeting 2 Date: Apr. 30
Pages / Section: To Chapter 3 End

Meeting 3 Date: 5/16
Pages / Section: To End of Book

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Communication is key

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“He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land and the small desert birds flew chittering among the dry bracken and horse and rider and horse passed on and their long shadows passed in tandem like the shadow of a single being. Passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come.”

This concluding sentence conveys the message of the book - that fulfillment comes in adventure and exploring the world.

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“You hear me? I intend to make em kill me. I won’t take nothin less. They either got to kill us or let us be. There ain’t no middle ground.”

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I really do not enjoy this book so far. It is very boring and uneventful. It also does not have a deeper meaning or message like other non-action books I have read before, making it a bad reading experience. - SG

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The book to me lacks some grammar ramifications and it is kind of hard to read and keep along because some of the words are in Southern tounge

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Come prepared to each Book Club with questions and comments

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The book to me lacks some grammar ramifications and it is kind of hard to read and keep along because some of the words are in Southern tounge

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I personally am not a huge fan of this book, due to its seemingly pointless meaning. It does not seem to have any underlying themes so far, leaving the reader unable to discover more about the book as they read. - MM

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1 Brainstorm a LIST OF THEMES for the book thus far. Then, select one theme from the list and find at least three pieces of textual evidence to support it. 1

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Page 180, “This man came to me. I don’t go to him. He came to me. Speaking of justice. Speaking of the honor of his family. Do you think men truly want these things? I don’t think many men want these things.”

What is it that men really want? Is this what it means to truly be considered “a man?”

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“The judge watched him. Son, he said, you strike me as somebody that maybe tends to be a little hard on theirselves. I think from what you told me you done real well to get out of there with a whole hide. Maybe the best thing to do might be just to go on and put it behind you. My daddy used to tel me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.”

Many people tend to be hard on themselves over anything they are passionate about and want to do good in. The judge makes a good point by sharing his own experience with his dad about how its okay to let the stuff youre being on yourself about in the past and learn from it, and instead of letting it eat at you slowly, you move forward.