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Jack's dissatisfaction with his own life is demonstrated through the false life in the letters sent to his pen pal. Jack explained that he was "the owner of a Palomino horse who... raised German shepherds and played for several athletic teams".

Jack becomes convinced of his own lies when he forges letters of recommendation from his teachers and "the words came as easily as if someone were breathing them into my ear... I thought I was writing the truth."

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Jack was "tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family". Because Jack "despised the life [he] led in Seattle", he imagined that in Chinook, he "could be different" by introducing himself differently.

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"I was ready to do anything to get clear of Dwight."

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My Padlet, my rules.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?!?
HUH JACK!?!
DO YOU!?!?

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Jack's dream about a conventional family

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Jack's dream about a conventional family

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"Unlike my mother, I was fiercely conventional"- Will

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"The good life he had in mind for himself was just as conventional as the one I had in mind for myself."

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Cedric - The reality of Jack's school record and experiences

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Cedric - The reality of Jack's school record and experiences

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'I sat with crossed legs and made believe that I belonged there, that these handsome old buildings, webbed with vines of actual ivy to which a few brown leaves still clung, were my home.' pg 179 <- Fantasy

'I had done well on the tests I'd taken in Seattle. But not long after my scores came in I got a rejection letter..' pg 188 <-Reality

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Safin - Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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Safin - Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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Adam- Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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Adam- Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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"I watched them. As we drove on I kept watching them.

"I had never understood before, not really, what they had did when they were off alone together."

"I never thought she would do this to me."

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Arthur Gayle's dream of being accepted/concealing his homosexuality

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Arthur Gayle's dream of being accepted/concealing his homosexuality

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"The weakest part of his act was the girlfriend ."
"He stared testily into the faces he passed as if looking for signs of scepticism."

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Michael H - Jack's dream of a happy, stable family

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Michael H - Jack's dream of a happy, stable family

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"I was tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family, and living in a house..."

"In my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle." - Jack hates his wild behaviour, and considers living in a conventional family in a new place to be the only solution.

"I imagined being adopted by different people I saw on the street." - Jack dreams of a stranger taking him in and providing the happy life that he craves

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"I was subject to fits of feeling myself unworthy…. It didn't take much to bring this sensation to life, along with the certainty that everybody but my mother saw through me and did not like what they saw." Jack is confessing that he is unhappy with his current situation and wishes to change who he is, representing the reality he has to deal with.

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Simon- Wolff's Reflections on 'green' dreams:

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Simon- Wolff's Reflections on 'green' dreams:

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"When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters."

"We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever."

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'I believed that having his name would charge me with some of the strength and competence inherent in my idea of him' - (pg 7

'I represented myself to her as the owner of a Palomino horse named Smiley' - pg 11 --> shows his fantasy life

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Jake - Arthur's Dream of being accepted/hiding his homosexuality 

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Jake - Arthur's Dream of being accepted/hiding his homosexuality 

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"Arthur was trying to be a citizen"
"I saw all this respectability as a performance"
"To fit in with them he had to hold his tongue and refrain from eccentric behaviour"
"He even had a girlfriend"
"He never talked to her or even looked at her. Instead, he stared testily into the daces he passed as if looking for signs of scepticism or amusement"
"I knew he was no citizen and he knew I was no outlaw"

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"It seemed to me when i got there that this was where i had been going all along, and where I might still redeem myself. All I needed was a war."

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Subin- Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic betrayal

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Subin- Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic betrayal

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"In the darkness of the back seat I sat rigid and mute, punching her, slapping her, calling her names"
"When I heard Ray Charles sing 'I Can't Stop Lovin you' I just had to stop and get sad for a while"

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What Jack realised about Arthur's 'girlfriend', Beth Mathis

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What Jack realised about Arthur's 'girlfriend', Beth Mathis

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Arthur Gayle's dream of being accepted/concealing his homosexuality

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Arthur Gayle's dream of being accepted/concealing his homosexuality

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Jack regretting his decision to join the army/affected by his experiences in the Vietnam War

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Jack regretting his decision to join the army/affected by his experiences in the Vietnam War

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Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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Jack's disappointment in Norma's romantic 'betrayal'

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Rosemary and Toby's pursuit of Uranium in Utah

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Rosemary and Toby's pursuit of Uranium in Utah

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Skipper's disillusionment caused by the sandstorm damage to his car

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Skipper's disillusionment caused by the sandstorm damage to his car

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The reality of Toby's family life with the Wolff's 

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The reality of Toby's family life with the Wolff's 

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The reality of Jack's family life with Dwight

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The reality of Jack's family life with Dwight

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The reality of Jack's school record and experiences

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The reality of Jack's school record and experiences

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Jack's dream of attending an elite preparatory school

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Jack's dream of attending an elite preparatory school

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Skipper's dream of restoring the 1949 Ford

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Skipper's dream of restoring the 1949 Ford

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Posts quotes that can be used to discuss dreams and realities across the memoir.

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Posts quotes that can be used to discuss dreams and realities across the memoir.

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Read the notes below, which explore some of the key tensions between dreams and reality, and looks at how the structure of the memoir helps to reflect this idea.

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