Literary+Lumminary

**"**"What's this" the woman said " You're a big boy now, almost six. You know I have to work." She picked him up to move him out of the way. "Take me with you," begged Matt, grabbing her shirt and wadding it up in his hands. "Stop that." Celia gently pried his fingers frm the cloth. "You can't come, //mi vida.// You must stay hidden in the nest like a good little mouse. There're hawks out there that eat little mice." "I'm not a mouse!" Matt yelled. He shrieked at the top of his voice in a way he knew was irritating. Even keeping Celia home long enough to deliver a tongue lashing was worth it. He couldn't bear being left alone for another day.**"** //(pg.5)//
 * [[image:http://dailybahai.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lightbulb-idea.jpg width="240" height="240"]] Literary Luminary [[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvWrIWF348bd4xSP_Bfd1eoLfxr5nibATuRf6CDSPBtUlVCqd2]] **
 * Week 1 **

I chose this passage because it was decriptive and left me wanting to know more. //Tyler// "Tam Lins ears appeared chewed, they were mishapen. But when Matt looked into Tam Lins eyes, he was surprised to see a glint of friendliness. Friendliness was so rare in Matts life, he instantly pointed to the man." (pg.63, 1/2 of paragraph 8 and 9)

I chose this passage because it told me how sad and boring Matt's life has been. //** Tyler **// **I agree with your first entry. I also wanted to know more about what was happening. Celia was leaving every day and Matt didn't know wear she was going. If I was Matt, I would follow Celia one day to see where she was going. Ben**

**// 2.) ""You're a wild animal," complained Maria as she stood in the doorway of Matts room. "You hide in here like a bear in a cave."" (pg.92 start of chapter 10) //**
===**// I chose this passage becasue it describes what Matt is doing and what hes been acting like with Maria. Also how Maria is describing him as being a wild animal makes the reader understand what Maria thinks of Matt as. __((Laurie Skamra))__ //**===

Week 3 1) " 'You were harvested. She was //sacrificed.// That's the term they use when they kill a poor lab animal. You step mother was turned into ruddy T-bone steaks!' " I **chose this passage because it shows how Tam Lin really thinks. When you remove his fear of El Patron and his professionalism (using alcohol) you were able to see his disgust.**

2) //Drugs Illegal?// Thought Matt. //What a strange idea.// Matteo Alacran formed an alliance with the other dealers and approached the leaders of the United States and Aztlan. // "You have two problems," // he said. //"First, you cannot control the borders, and second, you cannot control us."// I **chose this passage because it shows how naive Matt is of illegal drugs. It also shows that the problems the U.S. has today, (drug wars in Mexico and protecting our borders) still remained in Matt's time. El Patron decided to fix it by keeping his farms, but not selling to the U.S. He would control the borders by taking any illegal immigrants and putting them in his farms. Chris**

Week 3: // 1) He saw a large metal chest on the ground. On one side was a roll of blankets and a cache of water bottles. // // 2 ** ) ** Drugs illegal? thought Matt. What a strange idea. Matteo Alacran formed an alliance with the dealers and approached the leaders of the United States and Mexico. You have two problems," he said. First, you cannot control your borders, and second, you cannot control us." **Page 169** // // **I chosed this passage because it shows different problems in the united states and Mexico today. I thought this passage was Informative because like I said it shows kind of what is going on in the world today.** //
 * // I chosed this passage because it was really descriptive of was the metal chest looked like and it gave me a picture of what it look like. ( Page 149) //**

// **( Emily)** //

Week 3: ""You dont have a soul, so you can't be babtized. All animals are like that. I think it's on fair and sometimes I don't believe it. After all, what would heaven be like with no birds, dogs, or horses. And what about trees and flowers. They don't have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.""

I chose this passage because it deeply describes her beliefs and she uses many refrences about other ways that the belief doesn't make since.

"Matt could imagine himself as a boy, long before the events that had blunted his nose his and reamed him with scars from head to toe."

I chose this because it paints a very clear picture in your mind about how he feels about his child hood and how much he misses it.

__Week 4:__In chapters 21 through 26, there is two passages that stand out to me. The first passage Maria says this, " He's considered good enough to marry me!" She was talking about Tom. That part was surprising because I wouldn't expect Maria to want to marry Tom. I knew she liked Tom, but i didn't think in that way ( pg. 208).

The next passage was also surprising. Celia talks about how she gave Matt Arsenic to make his heart less healthy, so El Patron couldn't use it. It was surprising because I didn't think that would happen and that she would do that ( pg. 236) Amber

1.) pg. 232.) Celia said nothing. She might have been carved out of stone.

I like this passage because it was very discreptive and shows just how frozen and quitt Celia was.

2.) pg. 250) After the rest Matt hacked his way through the bushes. It gave him a savage pleasure to get even with the plants that had scratched his arms and face all morning.

This is a good passage because you can see that Matt likes to get even with people and things and it tell how scatchy those plants and things were and how he just kept going.

WEEK 6: This weeks chapters were 33 to the end of the book. One passage that really stood out to me was on page 327. It said, "They're bats! Horrible, slimy bats!" yelled Chacho. This stood out to me because it showed Chachos feelings about bats. It showed how he was horribly terrified of them.

Another passage that stood out to me was on page 376. it said, "All that time he was adding to his dragon hoard, and he wanted to be buried with it. Unfortunately, the dragon hoard included people." this showed me that El Patron cared about all of the stuff he owned. It could have also showed how extremely selfish he was.

Those are my week 6 passages

xxBeNxx

I think El Patron is actually selfish. I don't have a thought in my mind that El Patron cares about anything. Other than that, Great Job.! xxchrisxx


 * Good job Ben! I also agree with Chris that El Patron doesn't care about anything. But, again good job :) Emily :-) **