Five Comments
1. Their father didn't want them to trust anybody
2. Their dad gave them a picture of a crying clown and said told the kids
3. The dads visits became less frequent
4. Their mom was hated by all the other women in the neighborhood, she was thought to be stuck-up
5. The family was on welfare and now living in the projects
Four Questions
1. Why would the dad let her fall?
2. Why did the dad start visiting the kids less?
3. Why were they on welfare?
4. Why did they move into the projects?
Three Words
1. Intermittent: not continuous or steady
2. Perversely: showing a deliberate or obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable in spite of the consequences
3. Deacons: an ordained minister of the ranking below that of a priest
Two Literary Terms
1. Onomatopoeia: "I zoomed down the slide and came crashing onto the ground, causing my head to bleed."
2.Metaphor: "The projects were an endless maze in which a wrong could result in a little bleeding..."
One Sentence Summary
1. There was no way of getting ahead, or improving your life style when your on welfare, it was a system that only helped people feel worthless and help them fail.
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