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He has received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award

The genre of Brendan Kiely is Fiction

1. What are the three most important phrases on this page
2. Predict some things that are going to happen next 

3. Can anyone rephrase this section

4. What are the different perspectives that you guys have

Word | Page  | Best Guess | Dictionary Definition

Spirometer | 53 | A medical device | an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs
Synonyms - Lung machine
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Remorsefully | 50 | A word describing something to do with fossils | A manner that expresses or shows regretful acknowledgment of an offence or failure.

Synonyms for remorsefully - humbly, apologetically, regretfully
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pneumonia | 53 | Something related towards the medical world | inflammation of the lungs with congestion
Synonyms for pneumonia - flu

“It’s called an incentive spirometer. Because of your ribs, you’re going to
do everything you can to not cough. But you need to cough. You gotta make sure you’re getting all the nasty stuff out of your lungs, because if it all stays in, it might turn into pneumonia and we don’t want that.”

mean, it was me, but it wasn’t. But . . . it was. I didn’t know how or what to

feel. Like, how could I be that boy—a victim. Me. It was just . . . I don’t know 

. . surreal. But we kept watching as the story looped. Sunday, aside from being

a wack TV show day, is also apparently a slow news day. Every few minutes,

the footage of me being crushed under the weight of the cop played, the

newsperson talking about the “string of robberies” and not being able to get a

comment from Jerry’s management or the police department. Then a picture

of me dressed in my ROTC uniform flashed across the screen.” (pg.53)

In this paragraph, Rashad, the main character is being shown on TV for the incident that occurred at the gas station. From this, Rashad feels as if he has been wronged by the media and wants it to stop. This can be connected to much of the outside world with claimed criminals. They feel as if they shouldn’t being getting the incident reported on in the media as they will try to exaggerate the situation. There have also not been any comments from any sides such as Jerry’s management nor the police department making this paragraph seem like a normal news report. Though I have not had this as a personal experience, or studied it at school, I have seen many news reports and videos of people being wronged. In the outside world, people do get falsely accused and have to pay a huge price. For example, since Rashad is being exposed, his name will be over the internet and many things such a getting a job will be highly difficult for him as he is present on the internet as a bad figure.

“Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t have a problem with a good prayer. I

mean, I believe in God. At least I think I do. I just wondered where God was

when I was being mopped by that cop. And I knew that’s what the pastor had

come to tell me. That God was there. That God was always there. Which, to

me, is the wrong thing to say, because if he or it or whatever was there and

didn’t do nothing, then that would make God my enemy. Because he let it

happen. I would much rather Pastor Johnson say that God wasn’t there.” (pg.51)

In this paragraph, Rashad is questioning himself about religion. In the outside world, many people do that and are unsure whether they believe in a god or not. It isn’t the only thing they question themselves on however. Many people question themselves a lot and want to know better about themselves. This can be anything from whether something can be beneficial for them and they question that to themselves or it can also be the religion. I personally also question myself for little decisions such as what to do and some of these decisions lead to my procrastination.  There are definitely people who can connect with this individually as lots of us do little things to question ourselves.

“I could feel his eyes on me as I carried them up to the kitchen, and I could

still feel the pressure of his fingertips like a ring around my elbow. I made a

point of eating in the living room with the guys watching the game. The game

was a good distraction, a way to pay attention to something else, to try to take

my mind off Paul squinting at me, his gauging me as he’d been talking to me

at the grill.”(pg.63)

In this paragraph, the character, Quinn, was feeling uncomfortable. He felt as if other people were looking at him and he was going crazy. He also felt as if people were touching him and was feeling more paranoid. However he was feeling a bit better knowing that Paul was looking at the game. In the outside world, there are many people who feel paranoid that there might be something touching them. This is known as Haphephobia and although it is an uncommon phobia, many people worldwide have it. Although I don’t experience it, nor did I learn it in school, I still feel like though there was nobody looking at Quinn but they still felt greatly uncomfortable. 

2. Page 65 Paragraph  8

Reasons

Paragraph 1
"My mother and father lowered their heads and closed their eyes. I didn’t do
either. Kept mine open, and my head up, looking at the three of them,
wondering if any of this mattered. I knew it mattered to them, my parents,
and maybe that should’ve been enough for me to participate, but did it matter
to me? I’m not so sure. The prayer was long and dramatic, full of the preachy
punches in between each point. The pastor mentioned how Jesus was
persecuted (heh) and Saul was made blind (heh) and Job was tested (heh) and
David beat Goliath (heh). My mother followed right behind the pastor,
accompanying his rhythmic prayer with hallelujah whispers, and my father’s
manly but, I guess, godly grunts, all eventually—finally—leading to an amen."

Reason 

First Paragraph: We think this paragraph stands out because of the author's vivid and detailed description of a prayer. This shows that the protagonist's view on Christianity is somewhat Agonistic, opposingly, his parents are enduring Christ.

Second paragraph
"The kitchen was so silent I could hear my pulse in my ears, pumping red-
hot burning blood into my face. I couldn’t say anything. I couldn’t move. But I wasn’t alone—no one did."

Reason
Second Paragraph: We chose this because it was very descriptive and was also quite impressive how the author described this scenario in such an expressive way. This shows that the protagonist is nervous by the "pulse in my ears, pumping red hot burning blood into my face" (65).

Word | Page  | Best Guess | Dictionary Definition

paranoid | 70 | anxious | 
of, characterized by, or suffering from the mental condition of paranoia.

evangelicals | 78 | birds | Denomination, is a worldwide, trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity that maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus's atonement

silhouettes | 80 | picture | A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges 
matching the outline of the subject.

Word | Page  | Best Guess | Dictionary Definition
scrimmage | 116 | Practice game  | the action that takes place between the teams from the moment the ball is snapped until it is declared deada practice session or informal game, as that played between two units of the same team.

reluctantly | 117 | trying to avoid a cause | struggling in opposition.

PATRIOTIC | 119 | Being proud and supportive of your country | having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one's country

2.What was the most significant part about the pages?

3.How were the last few pages of the book for you?

4.How do you feel after reading the book?