This boys Life 5-4-3-2-1 (pages 29-51)

5 comments

• Page 29- Roy is nowhere near ready to have a child, he doesn't even known how to take care of Toby.
• Page 30- Because his mother is packing and moving around so strangely i know they are about to move again.
• Page 32- I think that the rifle is like Jacks means of escape from the rest of the world.
  
• Page 49- The man that is giving Toby the binoculars is only trying to get Toby to like him so Rosemary will like him.
• Page 49- WHO is the other man with the guy who gave Toby the binoculars.

4 questions

• As soon as roy starts to think about settling in Rosemary's decides it is time to bounce.
• Page 30- Dose she really believe that he didn't go to archery?
• Page 43- What dose he mean by "spit curls breaking over our foreheads"?
• Page 49- who is the other man?

vocabulary

1. Mickey- an alcoholic drink
2. Sepulchral- hollow and deep

2 literary terms being used

1. Page 37-38- The author is using setting to paint a picture in our minds

summary

This section is mainly about jake settling in to the new surroundings and how he deals with it.

This boys Life 5-4-3-2-1

Comments

• The continental divide is a boarder into America, meaning that he and his mother were recently in another country. Page 3
• maybe the raveling of the boys name will be left for when he actually becomes a man.

questions I have

• Why is it they do not mention he boys name in the story?
• What happen to his father, his real father, was he a good man or did he hurt him and his mother?
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words i do not known

• Ecstasy- A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self control.
• Acclamation-a loud shot or other demonstration of goodwill,welcome, or approval.
• Grubstake-supply with found in return for a promised share of profits.2literary terms being used
  

literary terms

summary
The boy has be moving around the country with his mother, so far he has learned how to shoot a rifle from his mothers controlling boyfriend and also he has gone through sort of a coming of age, when he got baptized.

about "this boys life"

So far in "This boys Life" written by Tobias Wolff the boy has Learned to shoot, lied in church, almost hit a nun with an arrow, and has gone on the run with his mom from an abusive boyfriend! In this is all in the first 30 pages!