Shadow-Personal Narrative

1. Carl cannot remember “a time when someone considered Harley in need of care instead of watching.” (p 88) Discuss.

Quote 1: "Here, in a word, - and it is a rare instance in my life, - I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held." Introductory, pg. 24

“Reuven, he has already talked to Danny about it, he has talked to Danny through you” (pg 101)

Pg. 105 "I wondered how and when I'd become capable of causing this kind of pain."

Quote 6: “He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.” (296)

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now- and the ship had gone.” Pg 91

“The boy went back to the corner where he had been studying and pulled out a thick book carefully covered in brown paper.” (pg 233)

“Now he, too, felt belatedly for once in his life that strongest and strangest of passions; he suffered from it, suffered pitifully, and yet he was blessed, and yet he was in

“His maddening superiority was unbearable these days. He did not want to do anything but read and go off by himself." Page 138

After his lunch break, Tom didn’t have long to wait before the paramedics burst in through the swinging double-doors of the ambulance bay wheeling in a young man on a gurney. Edward, a veteran EMT, recited the vital signs to Tom and Dr. Greene as they helped push the gurney into the trauma room,

“But you will be faced, now,” she explained gently, “ with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience.” pg 62-63

In all of their conversations, Mr. Malter seeks to pass his moral wisdom onto Reuven. At the beginning of the novel, after Reuven refuses to listen to Danny’s apology, his father visits him at the hospital to discuss his

"Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened himself up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards" (pg. 159).

After his explanation Mr. Youngblood said “That makes so much more sense, I was wondering what was going on. You don’t usually disrupt the class like that. If you come to me tomorrow after school I will see what I can come up with, for a solution.”

She thinks that he looks more tired and stressed as time goes on. He still looks young, as though he hasn't aged a day since he turned forty, but his bones are cracking and the shadows under his eyes are becoming more prominent. He needs a break, but it's not as if he is willing to take one. "My father. Was he like us?"