Blog for the week of 11/11/14

Eggs By Jerry Spinelli

Pages #66-106

Prompt: Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.

          In Eggs Primrose hates her mother. She never wants to be like her. Her dad left her     when she was little but she swears she remembers him. This affects her friendship with David. She and David always fight, but they always make up in the end. One fight ends really badly. This is an incident that shows she really cares about her father. In the text it says, "And then the boy said it: "Hey, maybe he's your dad!" The girl was on him in a flash, pinning him to the sofa, mashing his face into the cushion..."My father is not a bum on the street! Don't ever mention my father again!" This shows me she cares about her father a lot.

         Another example is that David's mother is dead. When David's mother died he never listened to his grandmother who was taking care of him. He never broke the rules but he just doesn't listen to them in a way so he won't be breaking them. The incident of David's mother dying caused him to do this. I know this because in the text it says, "David sauntered down the street. No one, not grandmothers, not anyone, could touch him. His mother's death made him invincible."

      David's mother's death also made him terrified of falling. His mother died from falling so it made him scared of it. This incident from the text shows me that, "Somebody pushed another big kid. The kid went lurching, his legs wheeling as if on ice - as if on a wet floor - and for a moment David felt his heart stop. That was how his mother died - from a slip." This shows me he is terrified of falling.