https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55 Add quotes that support or connect to each theme topic that we've been tracking. Start with your theme logs and then go back to the book to find more examples. Make sure you include the page number for your quote. Be prepared to explain how it connects and defend your choice. en-us 2022-03-23 22:04:55 UTC 2022-03-30 13:57:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d5.png https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119445921 There was a time when I thought getting older mean you’d understand more about the world, but it turns out the exact opposite is true. I don’t know anything about anything.(Ribay 296)]]> 2022-03-29 14:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119445921 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119449432 “I don’t want to believe there was another side to you. But I don’t have any choice, do I? I will try not to judge because I have no idea what you were struggling with in your heart, what complicated you soul. None of us are just one thing, I guess. None of us. We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That’s the way it is. I suppose we just go on and do the best we can and try todo more good than bad during our time on Earth. I’d like to think your scales tip towards good.” (Ribay 299)]]> 2022-03-29 14:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119449432 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119450776 “I wonder at how, though the world may be darkening all around us, we’ve formed our own sphere of brightness with the candles we lit for Jun.” (Ribay,301) ]]> 2022-03-29 14:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119450776 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119456326 “I know i appreciate that i really do. But i want to do this “ page 316]]> 2022-03-29 14:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119456326 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119461935 “He helped her find a spot to live, he brought her food and water”(Ribay, 209). Here, Jay is having flashbacks to when Jun was still alive, and thinking of how empathetic and caring he was to Reyna. ]]> 2022-03-29 14:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119461935 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119462292 “I smile to myself as i put the letter away…I drift off to sleep thinking of my cousin and me of humanity and it’s problems”(312). ]]> 2022-03-29 14:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119462292 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119463664 “She nods. ‘Even though you’re not Filipino—‘ ‘I am,’ I interrupt. ‘But I’m also American’” (Ribay 307]]]> 2022-03-29 14:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119463664 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119469920 “ Tito manning now looking at me as if I’m the instigator of his daughters rebellion” page 270]]> 2022-03-29 14:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119469920 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119471335 “With every passing second, the awkwardness expands. After what feels like forever but is probably only a minute, I wonder if he even heard my initial question. My heart thumps in my chest, and I feel my palms start to sweat” (Ribay, 154-155). When Jay first arrives in the Philippines, he feels very excluded and nervous around his family. He feels that he doesn’t belong their even though its where he's from. ]]> 2022-03-29 14:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119471335 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119471374 I felt really sad watching it. I thought, what if that goat had a wife and children? What if the rest of his goat family was back in their pen waiting for his return? (Ribay 258)


]]> 2022-03-29 14:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119471374 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119473192 2022-03-29 14:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119473192 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119473632 “Tito Danilo thinks its not the church’s job. Tita chats believes there’s nothing to be done. Tito manning actively assists in these murders. And dad doesn’t care” page 284]]> 2022-03-29 14:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119473632 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119480830 “I reached to take the child but then a hand clanked my arm and dragged me away. Away from the woman, past the security guard, through the open glass doors, and into the mall. In a flash, the woman was fine replaced with the bright lights and bright smells of a thousand stores (Ribay 63).]]> 2022-03-29 14:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119480830 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119485753 “You talk like everyone else. You dress like everyone else. And you, like, do the same stuff as everyone else (Ribay 38).]]> 2022-03-29 14:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119485753 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119487925 “..When you’re almost finished with a jigsaw puzzle but discover you’re missing a couple of pieces.”]]> 2022-03-29 14:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119487925 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119493406 When Tito Manning tell Jay he not welcomed in his house anymore “ ‘But you have outworn your welcome in my home’ “ (Ribay, pg#160)
Jay no longer belongs to Tito Mannimng home, now he going to leave with Tita Chato]]> 2022-03-29 14:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119493406 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119501284 “Jun is gone. I will always carry the grief of that loss and the regret that I let him slip out of my life too easily. Nothing will ever change that. But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change.” (Ribay, 318)]]> 2022-03-29 14:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119501284 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119503641 “ I want to go back to the Philippines” (Ribay). Jay doesn’t feel himself in the US and feels like something apart of him is missing. ]]> 2022-03-29 14:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119503641 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119506391 “He did all that you think he did not do” (Ribay, 281)]]> 2022-03-29 14:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119506391 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119509749 “‘Guess he’s still having you the silent treatment,’ I say” (Ribay, 251). Tito Maning is treating Jay poorly and isn’t being mature about this argument. ]]> 2022-03-29 14:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119509749 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119510048 “That is what Jun had to deal with when he was fourteen years old. Meanwhile, I was worrying about math homework, being shorter than most of the girls in my grade, and making the basketball team.” (Ribay, 167-168)]]> 2022-03-29 14:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119510048 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119510180 “I wipe the sweat from my forehead with the hem of my shirt and take a drink, suddenly understanding that beer tastes better the more you drink….I bob my head with the beat and sing along from the background….and refuse the balut that has appeared from somewhere and lose myself in the moment.” (Ribay, 222)]]> 2022-03-29 14:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119510180 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511183 2022-03-29 14:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511183 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511205 “Somebody needs to clear Juns name, even if nothing comes of it. We failed him in life. We should not fail him in death.” (174)]]> 2022-03-29 14:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511205 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511657 “It sticks to me i can not claim this country” page 227]]> 2022-03-29 14:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119511657 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119513260 Jay wants to be more connected with his family, when he is first introduced he doesnt care about being with his family. “I’d like to see more of the country….(Ribay315).”]]> 2022-03-29 14:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2119513260 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121518609 “But hell, even ‘Em and I never hold each other like this. Nobody in my family does.” (265)]]> 2022-03-30 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121518609 ajbela24 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121518628 “It was you. 
A minute passes. Then her response arrives: Yes. 
Why? 
I wanted to see if you cared. 
Why would you think I didn’t?
You stopped writing, she says.” (Ribay 238)]]> 2022-03-30 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121518628 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121519859 “While they’re distracted, I take the opportunity to leave all the pesos I have with me on the table.”(215)]]> 2022-03-30 13:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121519859 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121521228 “My brother is a liar. Just like the government that he serves. Never forget that.” (Ribay. 166)]]> 2022-03-30 13:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121521228 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121521882 “I know you mean well, Nephew, but the courts in the Philippines are not like the courts in America.” (172)]]> 2022-03-30 13:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121521882 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121522472 “People here like the president. They like his policies—especially this one. Even if Jun was innocent, most will not believe it. Or they will say that he must have had friends involved with drugs and it is his fault for having such friends. Or they will say that a few mistakes are expected.” (Ribay, 173)]]> 2022-03-30 13:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121522472 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121523069 “We all make choices, and we all must deal with the consequences of those choices. If we do not hold people accountable for their decisions, then we leave them free to destroy our society. That is how the world works. It is simple.” (Ribay 158)]]> 2022-03-30 13:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121523069 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121523439 “You do not live here. You do not speak any of our languages. You do not know our history…” (160)]]> 2022-03-30 13:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121523439 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121526015 “I think again about how Jun deserves a post of his own. I consider snapping a shot of me or her holding up the picture of Jun on my phone, the one she anonymously texted me. It would be an important gesture. But if Grace is going to continue updating the account, either one of us appearing on it would be stupid.” (Ribay)]]> 2022-03-30 13:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121526015 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121526684 Tito chato dislikes her brother Tito manning just like most of the family does. They dislike his way of speaking to them and his lies. “My brother is a liar just like the government that he serves, never forget(Ribay 166).”]]> 2022-03-30 13:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121526684 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121529257 “I know you want me to delete that account” (Ribay 265).
With keeping the account up there is a risk to them since the government in the country is extremely controlling. Here this can be viewed as an injustice since there is freedom of speech and expression.]]> 2022-03-30 13:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121529257 ajbela24 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121529528 When Jay’s dad and Jay had talked with one another about Jay taking a gap year and going back to the Philippeans]]> 2022-03-30 13:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121529528 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121531427 “Tell me, Jay, what do you plan to do with the information we discover today” (194)]]> 2022-03-30 13:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121531427 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121532429 “This is what they wanted us to forget”]]> 2022-03-30 13:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121532429 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121533865 “What happened to jun?” ]]> 2022-03-30 13:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121533865 https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121542493 “… 🤬 those people who say being born somewhere doesn’t count if you didn’t grow up there”(Ribay 228)

Jay was having an identity crisis as he didn't feel like he people welcomed him there just because he didnt grow up there]]> 2022-03-30 13:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mgeoghegan8/rgfc58lu717ufo55/wish/2121542493