Our group is working on Chapter 8, titled Conversations with Gawd. Main events: Chris is betweeen five and six, and he goes to sunday school every sunday for a whole year. "In fact in my fifth and sixth year, my shiny face showed up exactly fifty two times." (p 108 Crutcher) Chris recieves a "reward" for going to church, Chris gets a glow in the dark figure that says Jesus Saves. Chris's brother John breaks the figure, and then lies to Chris about the exsistance of Jesus's older brother Esus. Chris offten gets in trouble in Sunday school for asking questions about the stories he is told about Jesus, which eventually leads to Chris leaving the Red Brick Church. "That simply isn't Christian thinking" (p 120 Crutcher) Chris comes of age in this chapter by learning to be his own person, and finding God in his own way. Chris also learns that the Church is not always right, and that in order to wordhip God, Chris does not have follow the church word for word. Chris also learns to have his own opinions, and to voice his opinions when needed.
My group is working with chapter 6, E equals MC squared. The chapter begins by Chris coming home with a bloody nose. Chris has just relayed his father’s theory about relative heat to his schoolyard friends with no avail. The next major event is Crutcher’s Christmas tree expedition. Chris freezes his butt off in the back of Crutcher’s pickup. When Chris gets home he finally understands his father’s theory of relativity when Crutcher thaws his hands in cold water, not warm. Finally Chris delays the senior sneak by putting rotten limburger cheese and mink scent in the bus the seniors are using.
Chris learns the lesson of relativity. He learns that our judgments are predominantly based on relative traits. “No one is pretty; no one is ugly. There is no Jesus without Judas, no MLK, without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.” This is a very important lesson for Chris Crutcher. Here is a boy who has struggled with making sense of the environment around him. For Chris, this allows him to view the world in a logical sense. The cold water, the furnace, and the limburger cheese all have something in common. They all provide the insight that helps Chris grow into a civilized and stable adult. This is a large part of “coming of age” because Chris is opened up to personal perspective. He finds the yin and yang, the balance of the world, and he finds it through hard personal experience.
Kim Cordeiro, Heather Fitzgerald, Nora Sweeney, Adam Dallaire Chapter 4 Foul Bawl
The main events that occur in the chapter are that he is horrible at sports, gets his tooth knocked out, and fails at an opportunity to score in basketball. The main characters are Chris, Paula Whitson, Ellen Breidenbach, and Gerry Greene. Chris was fifteen at the time. Chris learns that Paula Whitson has no interest in him. He also learns not to stand so close to a swinging bat as a result of loosing his tooth. He gets really distracted around pretty girls like Gerry Greene and misses an important shot that he needs to make the press. He should just give up on sports. These events are part of the “coming of age” because he learns some valuable lessons. He realizes that he can’t do anything right. He sees that the pretty girls like Paula and Gerry don’t care about him. He needs to have more focus when trying to accomplish things like playing in the basketball game. He has a lot of growing up to do.
The main events that occur in chapter is that Chris is going through puberty and he is obsessing over Paula Whitson. Chris goes around trying to act tough and waits to see if she is going to drive by his house with her family. One late night Chris talks to his mom about her alcohol problem. Chris has been talking about taking Paula to the Christmas ball since forever and his brother finally says if you don’t ask her I will for you. So Chris is kind of forced into asking her. After swearing on the phone with her father, and being locked in a staircase until he asked her, she said yes. Chris, going through puberty got a pimple on his forehead and tried to make a lie about it until she called him out on it. After the dance Chris was hoping that Paula would ask him to the Sadie Hawkins dance. After learning the harsh reality that “girls don’t want a nice guy” he met Bonnie. She was the first girl to mature in her grade and was “that girl” Chris then decided that Bonnie was his kind of girl. Chris put his scab that he was oh so proud of on her desk thinking it would be a sweet gesture and she screamed and tied to stomp it like a bug. Chris got offended and said that it was a science project “it’s a ladybug exposed to radiation.” Chris what he thinks a relationship works like and realizes that it is not exactly how it goes. He also learns that you need to alter who you are a bit and “clean himself up.” This is a coming of age because at the beginning he thinks that everything is like a fairy tale and he thinks that if you ask a girl to a dance and she says yes that means that she likes you. As you get older your older friends and or siblings introduce you to the real world and teach you about bodily fluids and other things that are a “must know” for high school. I think that Chris learns a lot about life, growing up, and relationships. Jordan, Gary, Nick, Melissa.
The main characters in our chapter were Chris Crutcher, Janice Winthrop, and Mr. Payne. Although 14 years old at the time, Chris wants to elect Janice Winthrop to represent the class at the carnival dance. He wanted to elect her because of the fact that she was the most unpopular girl of the class. each candidate was to have their face put on a shoe box in the main office. In order to vote, a person would place a penny into the shoe box with the picture of the person that they wanted to vote for. Janice won the election, making her the carnival queen. Realizing that Janice's election was a cruel joke, Mr. Payne insists that all freshman boys report to the teachers lounge to receive a stern talking to. Each boy is told to pick a number out of a hat. Whoever gets the number one is then forced to ask Janice to the dance. Everyone else, is still forced to dance with her at least three times. At the dance, the boys take flip a coin to see who's turn it is to dance with Janice. When it is Chris' turn to dance with her, he feels awkward because he feels that she knows that the joke was his idea. But despite this fact, she tells him that she is having the best night of her life.
After the night of the carnival Chris learns that all things are relative. In the same way the smelly cheese can smell like roses in comparison to mink scent, a bad night for everyone else can be the best night for janice.
Through this experience, Chris matures. He finds that jokes are not funny at another person's expense.
Our group is working on Chapter 8, titled Conversations with Gawd. Main events: Chris is betweeen five and six, and he goes to sunday school every sunday for a whole year. "In fact in my fifth and sixth year, my shiny face showed up exactly fifty two times." (p 108 Crutcher) Chris recieves a "reward" for going to church, Chris gets a glow in the dark figure that says Jesus Saves. Chris's brother John breaks the figure, and then lies to Chris about the exsistance of Jesus's older brother Esus. Chris offten gets in trouble in Sunday school for asking questions about the stories he is told about Jesus, which eventually leads to Chris leaving the Red Brick Church. "That simply isn't Christian thinking" (p 120 Crutcher)
ReplyDeleteChris comes of age in this chapter by learning to be his own person, and finding God in his own way. Chris also learns that the Church is not always right, and that in order to wordhip God, Chris does not have follow the church word for word. Chris also learns to have his own opinions, and to voice his opinions when needed.
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My group is working with chapter 6, E equals MC squared.
The chapter begins by Chris coming home with a bloody nose. Chris has just relayed his father’s theory about relative heat to his schoolyard friends with no avail. The next major event is Crutcher’s Christmas tree expedition. Chris freezes his butt off in the back of Crutcher’s pickup. When Chris gets home he finally understands his father’s theory of relativity when Crutcher thaws his hands in cold water, not warm. Finally Chris delays the senior sneak by putting rotten limburger cheese and mink scent in the bus the seniors are using.
Chris learns the lesson of relativity. He learns that our judgments are predominantly based on relative traits. “No one is pretty; no one is ugly. There is no Jesus without Judas, no MLK, without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.” This is a very important lesson for Chris Crutcher. Here is a boy who has struggled with making sense of the environment around him. For Chris, this allows him to view the world in a logical sense. The cold water, the furnace, and the limburger cheese all have something in common. They all provide the insight that helps Chris grow into a civilized and stable adult. This is a large part of “coming of age” because Chris is opened up to personal perspective. He finds the yin and yang, the balance of the world, and he finds it through hard personal experience.
Kim Cordeiro, Heather Fitzgerald, Nora Sweeney, Adam Dallaire
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Foul Bawl
The main events that occur in the chapter are that he is horrible at sports, gets his tooth knocked out, and fails at an opportunity to score in basketball. The main characters are Chris, Paula Whitson, Ellen Breidenbach, and Gerry Greene. Chris was fifteen at the time.
Chris learns that Paula Whitson has no interest in him. He also learns not to stand so close to a swinging bat as a result of loosing his tooth. He gets really distracted around pretty girls like Gerry Greene and misses an important shot that he needs to make the press. He should just give up on sports.
These events are part of the “coming of age” because he learns some valuable lessons. He realizes that he can’t do anything right. He sees that the pretty girls like Paula and Gerry don’t care about him. He needs to have more focus when trying to accomplish things like playing in the basketball game. He has a lot of growing up to do.
Chapter nine- A Different Kind of Love Story
ReplyDeleteThe main events that occur in chapter is that Chris is going through puberty and he is obsessing over Paula Whitson. Chris goes around trying to act tough and waits to see if she is going to drive by his house with her family. One late night Chris talks to his mom about her alcohol problem. Chris has been talking about taking Paula to the Christmas ball since forever and his brother finally says if you don’t ask her I will for you. So Chris is kind of forced into asking her. After swearing on the phone with her father, and being locked in a staircase until he asked her, she said yes. Chris, going through puberty got a pimple on his forehead and tried to make a lie about it until she called him out on it. After the dance Chris was hoping that Paula would ask him to the Sadie Hawkins dance. After learning the harsh reality that “girls don’t want a nice guy” he met Bonnie. She was the first girl to mature in her grade and was “that girl” Chris then decided that Bonnie was his kind of girl. Chris put his scab that he was oh so proud of on her desk thinking it would be a sweet gesture and she screamed and tied to stomp it like a bug. Chris got offended and said that it was a science project “it’s a ladybug exposed to radiation.”
Chris what he thinks a relationship works like and realizes that it is not exactly how it goes. He also learns that you need to alter who you are a bit and “clean himself up.” This is a coming of age because at the beginning he thinks that everything is like a fairy tale and he thinks that if you ask a girl to a dance and she says yes that means that she likes you. As you get older your older friends and or siblings introduce you to the real world and teach you about bodily fluids and other things that are a “must know” for high school. I think that Chris learns a lot about life, growing up, and relationships.
Jordan, Gary, Nick, Melissa.
Chapter 7 The Roots Of Angus
ReplyDeleteThe main characters in our chapter were Chris Crutcher, Janice Winthrop, and Mr. Payne. Although 14 years old at the time, Chris wants to elect Janice Winthrop to represent the class at the carnival dance. He wanted to elect her because of the fact that she was the most unpopular girl of the class. each candidate was to have their face put on a shoe box in the main office. In order to vote, a person would place a penny into the shoe box with the picture of the person that they wanted to vote for. Janice won the election, making her the carnival queen. Realizing that Janice's election was a cruel joke, Mr. Payne insists that all freshman boys report to the teachers lounge to receive a stern talking to. Each boy is told to pick a number out of a hat. Whoever gets the number one is then forced to ask Janice to the dance. Everyone else, is still forced to dance with her at least three times. At the dance, the boys take flip a coin to see who's turn it is to dance with Janice. When it is Chris' turn to dance with her, he feels awkward because he feels that she knows that the joke was his idea. But despite this fact, she tells him that she is having the best night of her life.
After the night of the carnival Chris learns that all things are relative. In the same way the smelly cheese can smell like roses in comparison to mink scent, a bad night for everyone else can be the best night for janice.
Through this experience, Chris matures. He finds that jokes are not funny at another person's expense.