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"still she gave me a party of sorts.  Sick as she was, Mama had  seen to it, organizing it at the hospital. she made sure the doctors and the nurses all brought me presents."  Even though the mom was sick she still wanted Katie to have a birthday party.

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When Katie opened the birthday box from her mother and thought it was a joke.

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The daughter was acting happy even though she was upset when she said, "' Of course it is"

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The empty box keeps coming up representing the mom and the daughter Katie said " If she was as empty as the box"...... Why?

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And then suddenly I knew.Mama had meant I was the box

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The mother is an English teacher which makes her like to write.  When the box is full with poems and writing Katie feels contented with her mother but when the box was  empty Katie felt empty inside.

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Her mother said, "It is you". This is because when her mother died, she felt empty like the box.

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The Mother´s gift keeps coming up because the gift is important to her and makes her feel like she is not alone and that her mother is with her. In the text it says that she felt empty ad alone.

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A Contrast and Contradiction was when Katie opened the box on her 11th birthday and she suddenly realized what it meant after a whole year of not knowing what it meant, also the year she didn't know what it meant she always felt down and she disrespected her stepbrothers, but when she realized what it meant she was all nice and had a positive attitude.

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It's from your Mom Katie

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At first Katie seems sweet and kind but by the end she seems rude and mean to her family.
In the text it says  "I stopped writing. I stopped reading except for school assignments. I was pretty mean to half my brothers and totally rotten to my stepmother and Dad. I felt empty and angry, and they all left me pretty much alone.

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Why doesn't anyone say who the present is from?

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"V Louise closed Mama's eyes ran her hand across Mama's cheek, and turned off the breathing machine."

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"It's you" is words of the wiser because Katie's mom shows Katie is empty inside but nice and beautiful on the outside.

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"Who is it from?"
Why didn't the Mom answer her daughter or put her name on the present

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Why did the mom say its you as her last words?

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"Then I cried at night for a couple of months." Is this true or is it exaggeration?

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Why did the girl freak out and scream "Do something". She said this not because she thought that the doctors could save her mom but because she was just so shocked from her mom's death!

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What does "It's you" mean in the perspective of the story.

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When her mother said "All thoes needles" she rembers the spific words her mom said

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The daughter was being rude and sounded upset when she said, "'It's empty"' and "'Is this a joke?'' when normally she would've acted like it was no big deal and she would've stay polite.

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"But I was waiting for someone to tell me"
Why didn't any of the nurses say that It was her moms ?

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" I was ten years old when my mother died." She remembers  when her mother died when she was ten.

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The oncologist (which is the fancy way of saying cancer doctor)

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After her mother died she stopped writing and reading when normally she would love to do that.

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After her mother died she became very rude to her step-family and dad when she would normally be a nice and quite girl.

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Katie thought her mother was more beautiful when she was sick than when she wasn't.

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Why didn't they go to church?

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"it was the thought that counted, not the actual gift." is the words of the wiser because it shows that is the effort that the person did to make that gift for you.

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"Now you can write beautiful stories, Katie" It is telling her to write, and it will help her a lot later.

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"why had she said, 'It's you'?  Why were they the very last words she had ever said to me, forced out with her last breath?