Easter Rising
By Michael Patrick MacDonald
Comments -
1. "Well, geez, where the heck have you been,
mister... um ..." Flaherty said.
2. He began by saying how incredible it was that in this great country someone like me could be afforded the type of education Boston latin offered for free.
3. As I walked across town, it started to sink in that I wasn't going back to school again. It was official: I was a dropout.
4. When Kathy woke up on Easter Sunday, I felt we experienced a real miracle, just like in Grandpa's stories about Lourdes.
5. But Kathy was alive again, against all medical predictions, and against my conviction that my family was cursed.
Questions -
1. Why didn't the assistant headmaster or the guidence counsellor trty to stop Michael from leaving the building the day he walked out of school for good?
2. Why did Michael feel that walking around Boston was better for him than going to school?
3. Why did Michael steal the black patent leather shoes from the thrift store?
4. Did Kathy have a complete recovery?
Vocabulary -
1.stance - page 95 the position or bearing of the body while standing: legs spread in a wide stance; the threatening stance of the bull.
2 afforded - page 95 To make available; provide.
3.billowing - page 102 To swell out or bulge.
Literary Terms -
1.Setting - Boston latin, City Hospital and the Paradise club.
2.Exposition - Michael goes to the hospital everyday with his grandfather to visit Kathy after he quits school, although he has no hope because he feels his family is cursed.
Outline - Michael attemps to go back to school but quits after being questionded by the Guidence counsellor. Kathy finally comes out of the coma on Easter Sunday which everyone thinks is a miracle. This also makes Michael think his family's curse is broken. Michael also starts sneaking into concerts at other places besides the rat and steals shoes at the Goodwill store.
Michael attemts to go back