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5 – Comments
- Erik thought that his mom was acting strange because she uses to be energetic and now she is started to be lazy. One day, the mom told Erik about when she is not there to be with you and he got scare. He thought of the worst thing that would happen.

- On Christmas Eve, everybody but Erik mom was down stairs having fun and enjoying themselves plus opening presents. When Erik went to tell the mom to come down stairs to open presents, she got crazy. She started to throw her jaw from China into the floor. That day they took her to the hospital to the emergency room. The family was worried.

- Erik is going to start high school and he is nervous.

- In the beginning of high school the principle assign him a supervisor to take him everywhere he needs to go. When week pass, he wasn’t happy with his supervisor because he has no freedom. He thought that in high school there is freedom, that you could do whatever you want.

- He seeks out from the supervisor and went to the cafeteria by himself. It took him a little while just to get to the cafeteria but he got there. It was hard to get his lunch because of the crowded people pushing one another. When he got his lunch, he heard his friend voice Chris. When Erik got closer, the voice keeps on getting louder. When he got there the people in the table stayed quiet. Not ever his friend spoke. He went back and they started to talk again.

4 – Question
- Why Erik mom was acting crazy and confused?
- Why didn’t Chris talk to Erik when Erik went close to the table?
- Why Erik did seek from the supervisor when he knows that he is going to get lost?
- Does Erik mom got a disease that might catch from the tour of china?
3 – Vocabulary
- Congenital =having by nature a specified character
- Haphazardly = in a haphazard manner
- Pavement = a material in which a surface is made
2 – Literary terms
- He is like a lonely wolf (simile)
- My mom was a crazy bull (metaphor)
1 – Overview
- This part of the book is about when the mom goes to the hospital and when he start high school.