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 * Jaydeep, Cassidy, Palak, and Saige.**

Were you satisfied or dissatisfied at the end of the novel when Oskar didn't find the lock, but found the owner of the key? Why or why not? (pg 288-302) #youngmoney


 * Kyle, Katie, Zack, Megan, and Selena.**

Reread pgs.157-159. In class, you will receive an index card on which a classmate’s name and a celebrity’s name are written. Just as Mr. Black succinctly described people he would later want to write about, so you must describe the celebrity, and then the classmate in one word each (Please be positive). Find another example of oversimplification in this novel and be prepared to discuss and debate your ideas.

**__//Questions for Monday//__** **Jarred, Laura, Evan, Chi**

Reread pages 108-141 (only 18 pages of real reading). Why are there so many rules in Oskar’s grandparent’s marriage? Analyze why his grandfather mentions Anna at the beginning of the chapter. What is your interpretation of a “nothing” place? A “something” place? Why do you think the grandfather tell the grandmother that he loves her life story when they are blank pages? Why do you think the pages are blank? Examine the two door knobs. What do you see in differences? What do you think the narrator means by “I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living”? (top of 113) Do you think this is why he chooses to leave?

Marissa, Rachel, Bri, Gabi, and Nick Reread Pages 75-85 What’s the grandmother’s emotional response to the letter she received from the Turkish inmate? What was her initial reaction? As in, what did the letter prompt her to do? **How did this scene impact the rest of the** **story line** **and the way it was written?**

Lauren Flemming Alexis Yulio, Kathryn Bender, Nick LaPiana Reread pages 16-34, when Thomas Sr stopped talking. Why did Thomas Sr. stop talking and how does it relate to Anna and Oskar’s grandma? Was being around the Grandma good for Thomas? How does his silence affect the relationship between him and his wife (grandma)? Does he not truly love her because of Anna? Or is he just using grandma to feel close to Anna again? On page 216 he says, “I’m so afraid of losing something i love that i refuse to love anything.” Have you or anyone you knew ever lost someone and found it hard to open up again? At the end of the novel, where are Thomas and his wife? Why are they in the airport? Can you accept that ending for their story? Our notes- Was not talking voluntary or involuntary, mental? emotional trauma? Being around grandma to get to anna, if he was trying to replace them why didn't he talk to her earlier? Did he never get over anna? Why did he come back? For family? The grandma? Love? Change? Acceptance with death? Respect? Is their form of communication, the writing and hand gestures/sign language, effective? Do they always understand each other? Do their misunderstandings affect their relationship (negatively or positively)? Do the magazines represent anything?