Harrison High School 2017-2018 Summer Reading
Double-Entry Journal
Student: Richard Azcona Novel: An Invisible Thread
Observations from the Text
Reflections and Comments
If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?
Maurice was a different kid but he wanted to blend in with the others because after all he is just a kid like every other kid.
Maurice thoughts were that if he had his lunch in a paper he would have look like the others and that made him happy.
I realize some people might not understand why the paper bags were important. But to me, they showed that someone had taken the time to make me lunch. Someone had actually thought of me; someone cared about me. …show more content…
For Maurice the paper bag was a way to make himself feel like there was a special one that cared for him.
She grew up in an abusive home, where her father, Nunzie, held court. She had two brothers Frank and Steve, and two sisters, Annette and Nancy.
She had a hard and frightened life. Her father was a drinker and when he drinked he got abusive it was like if he a different person. Her mother died of cancer.
Growing up in the suburbs, she longed to have a house, husband, and children playing in the yard. This was the ideal situation. It was one that her family pretended to have as they hid her father's alcoholic rages.
Laura worked hard, and valued the rich life and then move into a small but expensive apartment.but even if she didn't have a family of her own she was still happy because she liked her job and also found a kid that need it her more than anything and that was all it matter to her.
We live in a cynical world, and sometimes our cynicism gets in the way of seeing things for what they
Double-Entry Journal
Student: Richard Azcona Novel: An Invisible Thread
Observations from the Text
Reflections and Comments
If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?
Maurice was a different kid but he wanted to blend in with the others because after all he is just a kid like every other kid.
Maurice thoughts were that if he had his lunch in a paper he would have look like the others and that made him happy.
I realize some people might not understand why the paper bags were important. But to me, they showed that someone had taken the time to make me lunch. Someone had actually thought of me; someone cared about me. …show more content…
For Maurice the paper bag was a way to make himself feel like there was a special one that cared for him.
She grew up in an abusive home, where her father, Nunzie, held court. She had two brothers Frank and Steve, and two sisters, Annette and Nancy.
She had a hard and frightened life. Her father was a drinker and when he drinked he got abusive it was like if he a different person. Her mother died of cancer.
Growing up in the suburbs, she longed to have a house, husband, and children playing in the yard. This was the ideal situation. It was one that her family pretended to have as they hid her father's alcoholic rages.
Laura worked hard, and valued the rich life and then move into a small but expensive apartment.but even if she didn't have a family of her own she was still happy because she liked her job and also found a kid that need it her more than anything and that was all it matter to her.
We live in a cynical world, and sometimes our cynicism gets in the way of seeing things for what they