From “March Book One” (2013), Reflection Response to the text. Pg.29-30
“Of course any one can figure out the danger of making pets out of farm animals--especially chickens. You get emotionally attached to an animal that is destined to be on the dinner table, and you’re asking for a broken heart. But I couldn’t help it. More often than I liked, a grown hen or even a chick would die of more natural causes. For these birds I would conduct a funeral. This was not child’s play, I was genuinely grief stricken, and the services were painstakingly precise. I would gather whichever of my sister, my brother, and cousin I could. And I would deliver a eulogy. My parents would watch as the newest tiny coffin would join the neat row of small dirt-mounded …show more content…
For these moments Nate powell makes the pages covered in darkness, as well as all the other pages until Lewis is back to talking about the present. Powell does this to show the seriousness of the event, because through all the pages of Lewis talking about how the chickens he loved so dearly was taken away from him in more ways than one. Aydin and Lewis’s word choice for the end of page 30, “...wonder what kind of son they had.” gives the reader the idea of how Lewis was an outcast of sorts in his family, which is also supported by Powell’s drawings showing the concerned faces of Lewis’s parents in frame 5 of page 30. Not to mention in frame 4 of page 30 Powell has a picture of Lewis with his siblings as he is performing a eulogy, who appear to be bored out of their mind, and couldn’t care less about the funeral for the dead bird. Making Lewis the only one to care and is the only one affected by what happens to the birds, even though he knows that, “you’re asking for a broken heart,” When you get emotionally attached to the farm animal that you are going to have for dinner, but on both 29 and 30 Aydin and Lewis show key characteristics about Lewis that makes him a good character. They show his compassionate side when they talk through how her reacts to one of the chickens dying. Going through the trouble of giving them a proper funeral and burying them shows that he truly cares, even though no one else does. Aydin and Lewis not only brought out the compassionate side of Lewis, they also showed his stubbornness. He knows that it is futile to take care of the chickens in the way that he does, because he is going to get hurt one way or another, but even so he still takes care of them and he still gets attached to them the way that he does. Lewis goes as far as baptising the chicks when they are born, later in the book.
“Of course any one can figure out the danger of making pets out of farm animals--especially chickens. You get emotionally attached to an animal that is destined to be on the dinner table, and you’re asking for a broken heart. But I couldn’t help it. More often than I liked, a grown hen or even a chick would die of more natural causes. For these birds I would conduct a funeral. This was not child’s play, I was genuinely grief stricken, and the services were painstakingly precise. I would gather whichever of my sister, my brother, and cousin I could. And I would deliver a eulogy. My parents would watch as the newest tiny coffin would join the neat row of small dirt-mounded …show more content…
For these moments Nate powell makes the pages covered in darkness, as well as all the other pages until Lewis is back to talking about the present. Powell does this to show the seriousness of the event, because through all the pages of Lewis talking about how the chickens he loved so dearly was taken away from him in more ways than one. Aydin and Lewis’s word choice for the end of page 30, “...wonder what kind of son they had.” gives the reader the idea of how Lewis was an outcast of sorts in his family, which is also supported by Powell’s drawings showing the concerned faces of Lewis’s parents in frame 5 of page 30. Not to mention in frame 4 of page 30 Powell has a picture of Lewis with his siblings as he is performing a eulogy, who appear to be bored out of their mind, and couldn’t care less about the funeral for the dead bird. Making Lewis the only one to care and is the only one affected by what happens to the birds, even though he knows that, “you’re asking for a broken heart,” When you get emotionally attached to the farm animal that you are going to have for dinner, but on both 29 and 30 Aydin and Lewis show key characteristics about Lewis that makes him a good character. They show his compassionate side when they talk through how her reacts to one of the chickens dying. Going through the trouble of giving them a proper funeral and burying them shows that he truly cares, even though no one else does. Aydin and Lewis not only brought out the compassionate side of Lewis, they also showed his stubbornness. He knows that it is futile to take care of the chickens in the way that he does, because he is going to get hurt one way or another, but even so he still takes care of them and he still gets attached to them the way that he does. Lewis goes as far as baptising the chicks when they are born, later in the book.