https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-05-08 19:06:10 UTC 2018-05-10 03:10:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259062033 2018-05-08 19:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259062033 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259065861 " As he pulled open the screen door and lifted his bag over the threshold, he spied his mother sitting at the dining room table, that faraway look in her eyes. Joss knew that look well , as it had been growing steadily worse every day since Cecile had died. His mother was a fragile creature, in ways that she had never been fragile before."]]> 2018-05-08 19:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259065861 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259067560 " The dive from the airport had been long and silent -- a strange, indescribable tension hanging in the air between he and his dad. It was like riding in the car with a stranger who couldn't stand the sight of you. Worse, though. Far worse. Because the stranger was his father."]]> 2018-05-08 19:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259067560 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259068213 " He shut the trunk and lugged his bag across the lawn to the door, remembering a time when he and his family had lived in a yellow house. A house that had been filled with sunshine and laughter and love."]]> 2018-05-08 19:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259068213 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259071082 The way the author has the characters have grief over the death of Cecile makes me believe that the author is trying to say that death in a family can be a traumatic event that can have devastating effects on another family member and can even break a family apart as seen with Joss's family. ]]> 2018-05-08 19:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259071082 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259427567 I found this article that lists out how a person is effected by a death of a family member.  This supports the author idea that the death of a family member can truly devastate another family member from within. ]]> 2018-05-09 19:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259427567 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259431950 This article talks about in dept. how a family usually behaves or feels after the death of a family member. This makes the characters behaviors more believable and these same behaviors that the article states can also led to a family to fall apart like how the authors shows with Joss's own family.]]> 2018-05-09 19:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259431950 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259499183 I believe that the author; Heather Brewer, is trying to show how overwhelming death within a family can be even though there is not as much schooling on the coping skills for younger people when death occurs. Family death can really hurt a person within that family and without the proper education or knowledge of how to cope with death, it can led to even more disastrous effects on the rest of the family. Having the author address this problem in this book is a great way to show the reader that without the proper education of those coping skills, it can led to a person who experience death of a family member to lose their connection with their own family and/or even lose their friends. ]]> 2018-05-10 02:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259499183 breyes6112 https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259503931 A great improvement is to teach young teens in schools about coping skills of death if and when it happens to decrease the effect it can have on themselves and the people around them. By doing this it can also show people how serious this can be if they themselves are not properly educated on the subject. I feel like if this is accomplished then the effect of death within a family on a person can be minimized and those people won't lose their relationships with the rest of their families or their friends. ]]> 2018-05-10 02:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/breyes6112/qtmuw79samb/wish/259503931