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DUE Friday, September 5th in Reading Response Journal
Write a minimum of three sentences. Here are some samples: “A character amused/surprised/scared/etc. me when…”; “A part of the book I found interesting was…”; “I have a feeling that __________ is going to _________ in a later part of the book because…”
A character that surprised me in the novel Crash was Penn Webb. I could see Penn falling for Crash's gag's and sarcastic humor as a young child, however, he seemed just as gullible on the first day of seventh grade. Mike Deluca was clearly making fun of Penn's clothes, and Penn didn't even seem to realize it. Also, the hand shaking Mike did with Penn was also very obviously not sincere, yet Penn seem delighted with the attention and genuinely happy to see Crash and Mike at school. These examples show that Penn Webb is quite gullible.
DUE Friday, August 29th in Reading Response Journal
Describe a character's trait. Uses examples from the book.
In the novel Crash by Jerry Spinelli, John Coogan (Crash) is extremely rude. While having dinner at Penn Webb's house, he impolitely asked, "Are you guys poor?" He was asking this because their house was small and they didn't have a TV. Even though the Webbs aren't poor, asking them this was very rude and judgemental. It is not appropriate to judge people based on their how much money they have. Mr. Webb responded by stating, "Why in some ways, we're rich!" I thought this was a great response to such a rude question.
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