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Adult: Jeff Powers Student: Zack Fugate Page #: 165
 * Week 3 **

Lee Grant or better known as Luke is the main character in this story. Luke is a very brave and intelligent person. Yet at the same time he is shy and conceited. He is this way for a very good reason though. This week he had found out Jackal boy and a few others were just like him. Yet Luke is smarter than many of the other kids in this group because of his liking of reading. This trait is a trait I do not share with this character. I don’t share many traits with this character… such as him being brave. Yet I am not so shy either. But I believe I would want to be a friend with Luke just for the fact that he seems pretty awesome. He is smart and probably can be very friendly to other people. This book at first to me was a little hard to follow as well. It to me is sort of a complex book that has many themes. Do you like the way Luke acts around his new “friends”? Or do you think he is still a little segregated from them? I also believe you are right about how they just threw him into the school with no class schedule but Jackal Boy or Jason took care of that situation for him. I was also wondering why the teachers didn’t notice him gone? And why they didn’t report to anyone that he had been missing class and not completing any assignments? This school to me seems a little peculiar. It was supposed to be made for students with phobias and disabilities but do you really think they would have no windows? I also don’t think that the teachers are very professional if they have no student-teacher interaction. I also think it is immature of them for skipping out on watching the hall and having the students doing it. I also wondered if you thought it was weird that the hall monitors didn’t have to attend class because they watched the halls? I don’t think it is right because they are either not getting to study about their class subjects or they are getting excused for doing a not so hard job. I think this because there are or sounds like there are several hall monitors and they don’t have to watch much. And for your question about who the population police, they are the special police that enforce the population law. Yes, Jen is one of the third children and a legendary one at that. She was a very important and to whom the kids’ think was legendary. That is why they talk about following up on her rally.

Thank you for answering my questions and if you have anymore specific questions about the book please ask, hope to talk to you soon.

Thank you,

Zack Fugate

Zach, I think Luke is very smart also, and I think that he is very cautious around his "new" friends. Yes he realizes that they are just like him, hidden third children, but I think he is unsure about them. If it was me I'd be wondering why they have been treating me the way they have been. So he's cautious about getting to close to them when he is still unsure of who they are! So ye I think he was segregating himself from them. As for the teachers, well I think they were a little like the other kids. Or people who are very intelligent, but have no common sense!! They probably wanted to do as little as possible to do their job, and if someone else wanted to do the hall watch well then that was just less for them to do. I also don't think they really paid attention to who was in their class, and it doesn't act like they ever take roll call. Also, it seems to me that they just through kids into classes all the time so it was any big deal to them. And if the kids really had know idea where they were suppose to be how would the teachers know. Jason, also seems like the kind of kid who would cheat or do as little as possible to get by. I'm sure you know kids like that at school. Instead of studying for a test and getting a good grade, they just take the test and hope for the best. There are probably even kids at JCJH or NCHS that would hack into the computer and change their grades if they could get away with it. (don't get any ideas!!!! Ha Ha) We also have to remember that these kids were use to be in hiding and probably didn't have to do homework or even go to school, so it was probably very new to them. Then there were kids that had phobias, and disabilities, who probably had a hard time doing their studies or even concentrating. So the teachers didn't really care. And I'll tell you what, if I was in a school with no windows, which was probably for the safety of the kids who were in hiding, and the ones with phobias, I'd want to go outside as much as I possible could. Got to go, talk soon. Jeff

Jeff,

Thats a really good idea about the grades except for my luck... I would get caught so I guess its a good thing im not that type of person. But now that i have read the entire book i understand why the teachers are so distant and unaware. I beleive these two traits kind of conderdict each other becuase a teacher needs to be aware of their students and some how able to exseecede thier needs and own personal problems. I also beleive that it is smart to keep the teachers from knowing so incase their is a raid they dont know of any of the students. I beleive what happened to Jason was right. Yet I believe they werent even going to hurt they were probably just going to take him to another school. And did i miss something when they talked about Lee Grants real parents becuase all I thought it said was they were very rich and powerful but it didnt say what their jobs were. But the kids that are in the building and are still hiding and rocking back and forth need to start to let it go. Yes they are probably tramatised but they need to realize they arent the only ones. I think it would also be a good idea to tell the students all the kids are third-children becuase i think it would make them feel alot more at ease. Becuase if they just told them they were third-children they still wouldnt have their names so its not like they could turn them in. Well over all this was a good book and im gonna try to read the third by the end of school. Well thank you again particaptating in the reading rocks program and hope you had a good time becuase i know i did. The party is next Tuesday and i will try to make it but i cant make any promises becuase things can pop up out of the blue... im sure you know what i mean. But i will try to make it and hope to see you there if you can too.

Thank you,

Zack Fugate

Sorry about the font I don't know what happened I used my computer so please try to read it as good as you can since its a little weird.