https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3 Pretend that you’re writing an article for a newspaper about an important message from the book. Create a headline, choose an opening quote, and write a 3-5 sentence opener for your story. en-us 2023-05-25 16:33:04 UTC 2023-05-26 18:43:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606453728 "Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, Everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart." (185)

Throughout Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, we see Ari struggle with his emotions; before meeting Dante, he was closed-off and expressed nothing, solely wanting control over his own life. He meets Dante, a very open person, and marvels at the ease in which Dante expresses his emotions. Throughout the course of their journey together, Ari begins to realize just how much emotion he has repressed, and his relationship with Dante leads him to be more open with his feelings. While he has not fully recovered from years of emotional repression, with Dante he begins to heal.

- Ryan and Onyx]]> 2023-05-26 18:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606453728 https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606455315 "All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it" (358).

Ari was different from the other boys. He had always struggled to make friends or connect with others, but when he met Dante, they became best friends. While Ari explored his inability to communicate his feelings with others, Dante discovered himselves and his true feelings about Ari. Dante liked Ari, maybe even loved him, but Ari didn't feel the same; couldn't feel the same. Or could he?

-Evan, Ezra, and Jonathan]]> 2023-05-26 18:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606455315 https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606455924 "You couldn't cross out desire when it lived in your body" P. 374

Throughout this novel Aristotle and Dante battled with themselves internally and with the people in their lives externally. So many conflicts and issues that could've been easier to take on if they did it together, and by the end of the book they realize that they need each other.]]> 2023-05-26 18:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606455924 https://padlet.com/jtemple9/blnrym23saqau5g3/wish/2606460418 "That was the day my brother was in our house again. In a strange and explicable way, my brother had come home." (324)

All throughout the book, Ari questioned the secrets of his brother, his family, and himself. Bernardo, his brother, was always an unspoken topic and was pushed aside. However, Ari's parents finally gave him the envelope that held the answers about  Bernardo. He rips open this envelope to see the pictures of Bernardo and understand what he did. In doing this, he was able to rekindle his relationship with his family and break the barrier of secrets. Now that they had welcomed Bernardo back into their home, their family had regained their trust and connection.

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