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A natural born Cynic: It all began because Mr. Tickham gave Mrs. Tickham a super duper vacuum cleaner, called the Ulysses2000X. The Tickhams are Flora Buckman neighbors. From her window Flora observed Mrs.Tickham vaccuming outside when she sucked up a squirrel, Flora, "a natural born cynic" runs outside to help. "You are going to vacuum up that squirrel!"(pg.7).

A Natural Born Cynic:
It all began because Mr. Tickham gave Mrs. Tickham a super duper vacuum cleaner, called the Ulysses 2000X. The Tickham's are Flora Buckmans' neighbors. From her window Flora observed Mrs. Tickham vacuuming outside when she sucked up a squirrel. Flora, "a natural born cynic" runs outside to help. "  You are going to vacuum up that squirrel!" (pg.7)

Chapter 2: The mind of a squirrel "(pg.10). The squirrel was hunting for food when he was sucked up into the vacuum cleaner.

Chapter 3: The death of a squirrel. Mrs .Tuckham sees the tail sticking out of the vacuum cleaner, and say, " I think, I've killed a squirrel" (pg.11).

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A surprisingly helpful cynic:" For a cynic, I am a surprisingly helpful person"(pg.12). Flora runs outside to help Mrs. Tickham. Flora shook the vacuum and the squirrel dropped out of the bottom. Flora gives the squirrel CPR. He has no fur because the vacuum sucked up his fur.

Chapter 5: The squirrel Obliges
"Something strange had happened to the squirrel's brain." (pg.16). Things had gone blank, and he sees light, maybe he went to heaven. He hears someone saying breathe. He obliges, and he returned.

Chapter 6: The event of a seizure: Since the squirrel starts breathing, Mrs. Tickhams gets a laugh attack. Flora thinks she has a seizure and tries to find a stick to save her.

Chapter 7: The soul of a squirrel:
The squirrel, still being a squirrel, is still hungry, so he lifts up the vacuum cleaner to get some crackers which astonishes Mrs. Tickham and Flora

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By seeing the squirrel carrying the vacuum cleaner Flora thinks the  squirrel is a super hero, like Alfred T. Slipper. Flora brings the squirrel home and names it Ulysses.
Chapter 9: The whole world on Fire
Flora talks to Ulysses, and he understands her. He realizes that humans aren't that bad. He also sees been, and sees the world differently than he used to.
Chapter 10: Squirrel Smuggling
Flora's mother is typing on an old typewriter. She thinks of her parents divorced. Flora is standing behind her mother, and she walks passed the Shepherdess named Mary Ann. It is a lamp which Flora thinks is totally stupid."You stupid lamp...Mind your own business. Mind your sheep"(pg.30).Flora is very nonchalant.
Ch.11:A gigantic vat of Incandesto!
Flora explains to Ulysses what has happened to him. She tells him he has super powers." A superhero is someone with special powers, and he uses those powers to  fight the forces of darkness and evil. Like Alfred T. Slipper, who is also Incandesto. She shows him the comic book. "When there is a great crisis, when malfeasance is apparent, Alfred turns himself into a righteous pillar of light"(pg. 35).

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The forces of evil
In this chapter we learned more  Flora's father. He would read comics to Flora. At this thought she thought how lonely she was without her father but she quickly covered it."A superhero squirrel rested at her feet so she was not lonely at all. (pg.37).
Chapter 13
The typewriter
The squirrel wakes up and realizes he is hungry, so he decides to go to the kitchen and get food. "The kitchen that is exactly where he needed to be."(pg.40).
Then he spots a bag of cheezomania and eats it all.  When he was done he saw Flora's mom typewriter and started to type.
Chapter 14
Flora wakes up to her mother screaming her name.
She looks at the edge of her bed and sees the squirrel covered with an orange dust.She went down stairs and saw squirtel. The squirrel knows how to type.
"Squirtel! said Flora again." I am Ulysses. Born anew"(pg.44).
Chapter 15
The electric chair
The doorbell rang its scary ring. Flora thinks it sounds like an electric chair. Flora's mother believes that its Flora's father however it is actually Mrs.Tickhams and her daughter Tootie Tickhams coming to visit the heroic squirrel.

Chapter 16
Victims of extended hallucinations
The first thing Tootie notices is Mary Ann. While Flora was showing Tootie the typewriter Ulysses came flying down the stairs and landed in Mary Ann.

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pg.48 Tootie Tickham
pg.47 vanquishing villains
pg.27 squirrel smuggling
pg.47 Pitzy Pop
pg.14 Terrible Things...You
Pg.5 Flora Belle Buckham
pg.60 Succesful spy
pg.53 smell squirrel
pg.94 Cootchie-Coo
pg.97 Sunny side

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I smell squirrel
Flora meets a strange boy called William Spiver, he says he has temporary blindness by trauma. He says " I smell squirrel" (pg.56). They then remember the squirrel.
Chapter 18
A scientific adventure
Tootie tells Flora's mother that she can bring back the squirrel to the wild "the backyard" instead they bring him into Tootie's house. They bring to the computer to type something.
Chapter 19
The inadvertent I
Ulysses looks out the window and sees a picture of a woman and a man floating on a city. The squirrel thinks about the beautiful green grass and the wonderful blue sky and Flora's round head. So he writes the letter I.

Chapter 20
What it said
On the computer it was written.
"I love your round head
the brilliant green
the watching blue,
these letters,
this world,you
I am very, very hungry."
(pg.65)

Chapter 21-26
Ch.21 Poetry
Tootie Tickham has fainted due to the fact that Ulysses writes poetry. William Spiver doubts Ulysses's poetic talents. He tells Flora that the world is a random place. Flora wants William Spiver to take off his classes. He won't. She thinks he is Ulysses's arch-nemesis because every super hero has one. She's about to take off his glasses to find out who he truly is  when her mother calls her. He father is here to take her for a day. She tells W.S that the universe is a random place.

Chapter 22 The giant ear
Flora thought that her father was the loneliest man in the uiverse. Phyllis and George shout at one another. Flora becomes rebellious against her mother. She is not going to give up to Ulysses. The Criminal Element tells her to become a Giant Ear and listen very carefully. She is astonished to what she hears.

Chapter 23.
Enter the Villain
Flora's mother, Phyllis, order George, Flora's father, to put the squirrel out of his misery because he is diseased. She wants George to put him in a sack, hit him over the head with a shovel, dig a hole with the shovel, and bury him."Flora misunderstood that she had made a mistake in thinking that William Spiver  was anybody important."(pg.75). Phyllis Buckham was the arch nemesis.

Chapter 24 Stalked, Chased, Threatened, Poisoned Etc.
"He should have been shocked but he wasn't , not really"(pg.76). Many dangerous actions had occured to Ulysses such as he was shot with a BB gun, slingshots, his tail was run over by a pickup truck, he was poisoned,etc. He's really  not surprised by this announcement. He's thinking of poetry because Tootie told him he had written poetry. Flora told him that the malfeasance will be stopped.

Chapter 25 Seal Blubber
"Nothing was as it seemed" because Flora's mother gave he a shoe box with a comfy blanket to put Ulysses in for the car ride. As they were pulling out of the driveway, Tootie yells to stop the car. Flora was in a hurry, so she tells her father to keep going. She thinks, "there was a murder stop, a superhero mentor, villains ti vanquish, darkness to eradicate"(pg.79). The father stops the car and introduces to Tootie and William Spiver. Spiver apologizes to Flora for not taking off his glasses, but then tells her, They've been glued to my head by evil forces beyond my control"(pg 81).
He feels teh whole world will unravel if he takes them off. Flora whispers to W.S that Ulysses's arch nemesis is her mother. Tootie tells Ulysses she is moved by his poetry, and he feels very proud. Tootie reads Rilke and Ulysseses eyes shine. "Flare up like flame" exclaims George who says they must be on there.W.S is worried that they won't return and Flora tells him that she isn't going to the South Pole. Then she thinks about Terrible Things Can Happen to You, and how people can survive on eating seal blubber. They finally leave as W.S waves in the wrong direction.

Chapter 26 Spies don't Cry
Flora thinks her father would make an excellent spy because he side steps questions or responds with questions of his own. He started to cry when Phyllis talks about getting a divorce, and Flora thinks that spies don't cry, but still. Flora interrogates her father about burying something when he decides they should go to lunch.

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If a friend asked you about this story, what would say?

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If a friend asked you about this story, what would say?

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If someone asked me about this story I would say that it makes me want to read this story all at once because it is really funny.I also like the parts when Flora saves the squirrel with CPR. I like reading stories with a little superhero in it. Also i would say to my friend that i would recommend this book to people who like action and books that are funny. I also like the part where the squirrel types squirtel."Squirtel, I am ulysses born anew"(pg.44)  Also, when Flora's mom names a lamp Mary.

My favorite part is that the author puts comic strips in the middle of the book at some moments.

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My favorite character in the book is Ulysses. The reason why is because I usually like the animals in the books like if it was a book about a horse I would like the horse.
Also Ulysses is shown alot in the book and I don't usually like the main characters i like the secondary characters and Ulysses thinks about funny things like if he gets sucked up in a vacuum cleaner all he thinks about is how hungry he is. " As the vacuum cleaner roared toward him, he did not (for instance) think, Here at last, is my fate come to meet me!
He did not think, Oh please, give me one more chance and I will be good.
What he thought was Man, I sure am hungry." (pg.10)

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The world in all its smelly glory
Ulysses is happy he is going to get food, he is with the person he love,  he smells a lot of aroma's that he likes in the air, and he's thinking about the sentence of "Flare up like Flame" in Tootie's poetry, he likes these words.

Chapter 28
The Giant Do-nut
Flora wants to bring Ulysses into the donut shop but her father disagree's, but after a while they agree to bring them into the diner but keep him in the shoe box. She then thinks about donuts waiting to be dunked.

Chapter 29
Cootchie-Coo
When they arrive in the dinner, Ulysses is astonished by the menu. Then, the waitress called Rita which is ugly and looks like Marie-Antoinette, comes and asks to Flora."Got a baby doll in the box? Are you talking to your baby doll?"(pg.95) But then she realizes that it is a squirrel in the box. So, she screams and Ulysses responds.

Chapter 30
Sunny Side!
" He had never been so frightened in his life"(pg.97). He after wants to escape so he jumps falls onto Rita's hair. So the cook comes with a knife and tries to kill the squirrel. But then Flora tells him that he's Ulysses so he acts.

Chapter 31 Holy unanticipated occurrences
Flora 's father is joyful again and her remembers Incandesto as he says "Holy unanticipated occurrences"(pg.102) in the voice of Dolores. Then, when Flora tells him his name is Ulysses, he starts laughing. After, Flora says, "This malfeasance must be stopped. Right?"(pg.102), and he says."Right"(pg.102)

Chapter 32
Sprinkles
Ulysses flies into the glass door and falls. He thinks of donuts and sprinkles. He wonders where Flora is.

Chapter 33
Does Rabies Itch?
Ulysses head is bleeding badly. Flora had a sense of deja vu, since yesterday she was bending over an unknown squirrel in Tootie's backyard. There was a moment of quiet, the calm before the storm, in the restaurant until someone said,"I think it was a rat, but it was flying and it was in my hair"(pg.106). Flora decides to blame the whole mishap on RIta. Her father gets invloved by saying that calling the cops is idiodic. Rita thinks she has rabies, Ernie states that he is going ot be calling the police because Flora tripped him. HEr father begins to laugh and laugh hysterically, and he can;t stop.
The getaway
The getaway was slow. Flora wanted her father to hurry up. Flora worries that Ulysses has a concussion. She became terrified that her superhero might die. Her father promises her that her won't kill Ulysses, and they drive George's apartment.
Fear smells
As they arrive at the Bixen Arms which is  owned by Mr.Klaus who also has an orange cat named Mr.Klaus. Mr.Klaus prowls the halls and pees on resident's doors and vomits on stairwells. It also scratches the resident;s ankles. Mr.BUckham has scars to prove it. "The cat can smells your fear. Flora shouted  as she ran. It's a scientific fact"(pg.11). Her father laughs hysterically and Flora does't find it funny because there's a squirrel to save.

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say or do something to remove the doubts or fears of (someone).

"he understood her feelings and tried to reassure her"

synonyms: put/set someone's mind at rest, dispel someone's fears, raise someone's spirits, put someone at ease, encourage, hearten, buoy up, cheer up, comfort, soothe, inspirit

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Dr.Meesham tells her father's heart is capacious. It is capable of containing joy and sorrow. The horsehair sofa represents a place where on can cry. "It is good for tears> They roll off it, you see"(pg.128)> Dr. Meesham tells Flora, what does she have to lose if she chooses to believe. Nothing!" (pg.130). The evil occurs when George B. knocks on the door. "One minute her father was standing there with his hat in his hands, smiling, and the next minute, MR Klaus the cat came  out of nowhere and landed right on top of George Buckham's unprotected head"(pg.131). The squirrel vanquishes the cat by jumping on top of George's head which the cat landed on. His ear bleeds and the cat gets sent down the hallway." And the superhero  was enormously, inordinately pleased with himself. He felt immensely powerful! He felt like writing a poem."(pg.133).

Flora and her father drive back to Flora's house. She is worried about going home. Her father reassures her, Dr. Meescham told Flora before she left, "I always  promise to turn back toward you" (pg.135). She repeated back to Dr. M, and she tells the squirrel the same thing. Flora recognizes that her father's heart is capacious!
AS she approaches the house, she is filled with foreboding. The arch-nemesis lives in that house. George tells Flora to go bravely forward. William Spiver and Flora's mother are writing a romance novel together. Flora finds, "sickly sweet nonsense... what was the word for it? Treacle"(pg.143)