1.Charlie read a poem to Patrick, who had already heard it? Bob had already heard the poem. 2.When is Charlie’s birthday? It’s birthday is on December 24th. 3.Why is Uncle Bill the important man in town? Because of him, a lot of people got to get out of the slums. 4.What is a good distraction for Charlie's form his birthday? His distraction is putting out luminaria for the Christmas tradition. 5.Where did Charlie’s brother and Kelly, his girlfriend, met? They met in a restaurant call Ye Olde College Inn. 6.After the fight between Charlie’s sister and brother, what did his dad asked Charlie to do? His father asked him to drive. 7.Why did Charlie’s grandma didn’t cooked cookies this year? Because of her bad hip. 8.When Charlie’s heard the death …show more content…
11.How was he when the police found him? The police found him pale blue and asleep in the snow. 12.What is the doctor said to Charlie’s parent in front of him for the first time? That he should start seeing a psychiatrist again. 13.What position Charlie’s brother football team finish this year? The team finished third in the nation. 14.Charlie’s saw that everyone at school was wearing their new Christmas clothes, so what did he wear? He decided to wear the suit Patrick gave him. 15.Why do Charlie still remembers the movie commercial he saw when he was younger? Because the star of the movie was an actor from M*A*S*H. 16.Craig wasn’t there to play Rocky in the play, who had to replace him? Charlie was the one who played Rocky. 17.What do Charlie really wants? To stop being in love with Sam. 18.What are the two degrees Mary Elizabeth want? She want one one to be political science and the other one to be sociology. 19.Why did Sam had to take Patrick to the dance? Because Crais said to Sam that he was to busy. 20.Why was it weird when Charlie’s sister hugged him? Because he had never hugged her. 21.What is the only thing Mary Elizabeth and her parent like in commun? They both like
After falling out with his friends because of his mistake with Mary Elizabeth, Charlie became even more depressed than he was before Sam and Patrick. He turned to smoking as a way to grieve at the loss of his friends and the loss of his previous life. Charlie becomes ever out of it. When his sister needs him to drive her to the abortion clinic, he feels important and depended on and as he reported this was the first he felt needed. This repercussion with his sister helped him
"The most frightening time I spent in a movie theater occurred when I saw the movie Mama.”
Through the memories the Charlie Gordon has had since his surgery, he has revealed many new and exciting feelings in himself that he has never felt before. When he got upset at one of the doctors during his second inkblot test, he described his anger as exciting. Another emotion that we also noticed in Charlie is love and compassion. On page 82, he goes on a date with his teacher, Alice and he soon realizes that he has feelings for her but can’t seem to build up the courage to kiss her. When he finds out that Alice doesn’t have the same compassion for him, he starts to hate her. Since feelings are all very new to Charlie, he does not know how to react to them. One of the important memories that Charlie had was when he was listening to his parents argue. Charlie was sitting on the floor playing with one of his toys while his parents were fighting about Charlie’s
In chapter 11 Walter didn’t want to work at the garment center. Walter had wanted to be a lawyer at the age nine. Walter would simply memorize a passage and recited it. A coach had asked Walter to come for track his junior year. In chapter 12 Walter missed three weeks of school. Walter lusted three weeks before he stopped going to school again. In chapter 10 the idea of what it meant to be poor changed in the late sixties. Most of Walter life had been divided between school, reading, and ball playing. The second burden of that summer came in the form of Walter grandfather. William Dean was a tall, ramrod-straight man with mannerisms that seemed more appropriate for the nineteenth century than for 1951. After the civil war the former
It is not just Young Charlie living in a dream, for while Old Charlie is accusing Young Charlie of this, he himself presides in a state of illusions. He just sees things from the opposite angle; for him, “good” is a mask for evil and reality lies in a hellish place, almost the exact binary opposition to Young Charlie’s small town world. In fact, the whole family is separately locked in their own dream world; this is apparent when Charlie comes to town and things are obviously amiss. There are undeniable clues that Charlie is hiding something that the family remains oblivious to. The fact that Charlie shows up, out of the blue at the same time the authorities are searching for a widow murderer does not seem strange to them. Maybe the connection gets lost, but surely they must wonder about the amount of money that Old Charlie carries; the father who is a banker and spends his free time solving mysteries does not ask any questions. Then there is the moment at the dinner table when Charlie goes off in a fit of madness and pretty much confesses to the crime and all his sister says is that he should refrain from saying such things like that at the ladies conference. The child Anne has some intuition, but she spends the majority of time hiding in fictional stories. This dream like state definitely disconnects the family members from the world and
The story was written a few years after the Chicago World Fair in which Baum visited. What influences Baum to write such story? How is the story related to the fair?
He was helping the teacher instead of disobeying her orders. When Charlie realized he could get attention without being in trouble and gravitated slowly to being a teacher’s helper. Laurie’s mom grew anxious to meet the mom of Charles. She was ecstatic when she found out she would meet her at the next PTA meeting. Laurie’s mom “sat restlessly… trying to determine which one hid the secret of Charles” (349). It was finally time for Laurie’s mom to greet the teacher. Laurie’s mom praised her for being able to handle the menace Charles. Here the teacher informed her that there was no Charles in her class, telling the readers that Laurie himself was
“You were sneaking around the school at night? Tampering with crime scenes? What the hell is wrong with you?” He tries not to shout, but I can tell his blood is boiling. I interrupt his rant by telling him about the Deuteronomy number, and the links to the notes.
How did Charlie feel when they teased him ? Charlie was sad when they teased him they teased him bc he was slow & he really didn’t know nothing at all. When he didn’t know the answer in class. He decided to have surgery , After the surgery he was smart & he knew a lot of stuff.
He begins to realize that his “friends” have always picked on him. Charlie says, “It’s a funny thing that I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me” (55). Before the experiment, Charlie thought that they were making jokes and he didn’t even realize that his “friends” were making rude jokes about him. He also begins to have feelings for someone, Miss Kinnian. Charlie says, “I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is”
Have you ever asked yourself, who are the “bad guys” in my life? Maybe it’s the people who make fun of you at school. Maybe it’s the terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. But have you ever wondered what it’s like to be those people. They are just following their beliefs and opinions.
Throughout history people tell stories or people write about like Harper Lee did in her novel, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, while reading this novel you experience time changes and aso time differences during that period. Some people sit and wonder what it must have been like and other people like myself like to explore the ideas of how the world has gotten to this point. In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ takes different aspects of the human society and persons role of their point of view on a particular subject. A character, being one of the literary elements, and also having a big consideration to the communication through imagery and detail to the person being described on how they act..
At the end of this year Charles addiction to heroin was beginning to tear him apart. He would have breakthroughs in his music but not be able to follow up on them, and they would be lost. He had an affair on Rebecca and then later held a gun to her head trying to get back some letters between himself and his mistress. He had to leave the band he had been playing with because of his drug habit, and then he had a run in with the law. One night he kept a taxi for several hours running up a bill for $10 that he could not pay. When the taxi driver decided he was going to take Charles' horn for payment he was stabbed. Charles went to jail.
Charlie is at Sam and Patrick’s house for the final secret santa gift swap. They all sit in circle and swap their gifts and reveal who was who’s secret santa. Charlie gives Patrick his last gift a poem. Patrick reveals that he was Charlie’s secret santa and gives him a suit jacket as his last gift. He gave him this because all great writers wear suits. Charlie also gets everyone else presents even though they did not get anything for him. He gave Sam his favorite record that his Aunt Helen had given him. She hugs him and whispers to him that she loves him. Sam had gotten Charlie a present too. She takes him to her room to show it to him. She got him a typewriter. Charlie types on the typewriter that he loves Sam, too. Sam asks Charlie if he
Charlie was a boy who had seen his mother on death's door because of the beatings she received from George,