Quote #1
Quote by the Haitian Doctor
page 99
Significance: Edwidge and her brother Bob now know that they have an infectious disease that destroys almost all of their body tissue. Tuberculosis can also badly affect the lungs, which causes people to cough up blood. Edwidge does not believe the doctor because she has not coughed up any blood.page 99
"'These children,' he said, glancing momentarily at Bob and me,'appear to have tuberculosis.'"
Personal Connection: My great-aunt has cancer but nobody actually says 'cancer', because cancer is sort of labeled as the disease of death. Since nobody actually said the word 'cancer', I did not believe my nana when she told me. I knew my great-aunt was sick, just anything but cancer. She also has to go to the doctor often to get shots and be examined.
Question: What do you think showed up in the tests that let the doctor know Edwidge and Bob had tuberculosis?
Quote #2
Quote by Bob
page 117
"'I'll tell you a secret,' Bob whispered back to Kelly in the dark. 'We're really spies from space.We have spy stuff inserted in our heads.'"Significance: It was kind of funny because Bob is teasing Kelly and Karl, but they do not get it. Kelly and Karl were saying Bob and Edwidge seemed to just drop out of the sky, and so Bob got into the alien/spy joke. I laughed when I read this in the book.
Personal Connection: When my little sister was younger, I used to say things that were obviously not true but she believed. She knows now when I'm lying, but I used to have a lot of fun confusing her and making her believe that I was an alien. Most of the time she believed me.
Question: Why do you think Kelly still believed Bob even though he is already seven years old?
2 comments:
""#1: I think that it shows the hardships of Edwidge's and Bob's life because it shows that they have a deadly desease and it seems like they don't care as much as they should. I think that they are very interesting to look at because they don't have the same brother sister relationship that most people have.
?#1: I think that they had a lot of things in the test that showed them that they have Tuberculosis. Also that there is something in there that shows that they don't have Tuberculosis, but something worse that the doctors missed.
""#2 I think that it is very funny how he messes with them because it shows that they are trying to make the best of what they have. Also that they are trying to cheer each other and get some laughs.
?#2 I think that she believed him because she believes a lot about what her brother says because she thinks that he wouldn't lie to her. Also that they are so close that she thinks he won't mess with her at some point.
Quote #1
I really liked this quote because it is hard to believe that you are very sick and most people either faint or deny it. I also like how you connected what happened in the book to your grandma. I think this was a very well thought out post.
Question #1
I don’t know what showed up on the test but it must have been something that could easily give away tuberculosis. So it could have been any of the symptoms of the sickness.
Quote #2
Again great connection with the book and your life. I also liked the quote I found that part really funny because it is fun confusing people. I think it is funny to confuse people and I would really like to have my spirits lifted by jokes like that if I was in their shoes.
Question #2
I think Bob is a truthful person and that’s why Kelly believed him or Kelly just did want to believe him.
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