• What experiences do you share with the characters?

• I kinda share similarities with Brian I would be mad if someone said something about my mom.

• In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

• my family doesn't move,my brother would stand up for me like Brian.

• What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced? Jeanette cooking hotdogs when she was 3 I've never cooked.

Poverty

they barely have food eat what they can find when rex gets a random job.

they have to move around due to not having money and they leave places before they gotta pay.

Also rex budgets the money very poorly and blows it all way too soon.

rex doesn't have stable incoming only rosemary brings in stable income.

• Give context for your quote. What was happening in the story that made this quote significant? Who was speaking? Rex“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old Demon that you're not afraid”Why did this quote stand out to you? it stood out to me because somethings seem scary till you look closely and see its not so bad.

when they don't have money when they have to leave places like when they take Jeannette out of the hospital so they wouldn't have to pay. scary when their mother and father fight and get her back in the car.

3. What recurring patterns (repeated or related words, images, etc.) can you find? What is the effect of these patterns or motifs?bad words. having no money moving a lot,kids can't learn in school maybe don't eat enough and can't make friends cause they move so fast

6. Choose a significant event that occurs in your reading. What do you think the author's purpose was in telling that part of the story? the part where she got on fire making sausages. when it spilled and she got rushed to the hospital.showing the event she had while she was just 3 years old.

Does gender matter? gender shouldn't matter were all the same Would characters act differently if they were of a

different gender?  Would it affect the storyline?  it would if they were reversed and rosemary was the man of house and rex would give rosemary the money.Would you have different reactions to the characters’ words and actions if they were a different gender?No I wouldn't feel any other way gender shouldn't matter were all people

• Give context for your quote. What was happening in the story that made this quote significant? Who was speaking? we were poor,but we were also rich in the things that mattered most.: my quotation key doesn't work

• ”Why did this quote stand out to you? it stood out to me because while we may not be rich in wealth but in family and connections we are.

family

They always have good bonds many ups and downs.

they always got each other's backs and fight but there family and stick together.

even though they are a dysfunctional family with unreliable parents.