Name Blog

When I was younger my teacher told us to go home and ask our parents how we got our names. On the walk back to my house i asked my mom about it and she told me that I was named after my Uncle Paul. I learned that i was supposed to be born on the 10th, my uncles birthday, but I was born on the 9th. I also learned that all my siblings are named after people in my family too, my one younger sister's middle name is my grandmothers name, and my other sister's middle name is my mom name. My brother is named after my grandmothers uncle and my other brother is named after his moms dad. My middle name is my grandfather's name, Hendrik. I havent had to many nicknames. My mom and grandmother used to call me Paulie and my brother used to call me smalls but that was just because of the sandlot. In second grade my friend gave me the name turkey because he was coming over for thanksgiving

1. The novel is suspenseful because each chapter ends with a little bit of uncertainty. You get to look at the story through one characters point of view but you never learn what they are really thinking. Each chapter tells the story of one character, and tells what they believe is happening. The thing that keeps it suspenseful is the fact that every chapter ends right before a real conflict begins and it leaves you wondering what’ll happen next. As the story goes on you begin to be able to piece together what’s happening by putting all the characters accounts of it together, but Jodi Picoult never comes out and says what’s going on.

2. Sara seems a little too focused on Kate. It looks like she believes Kate is the only child that really matters. She sees Jesse high and drunk all the time, she sees how he drives and she knows the trouble he gets into but she doesn’t do anything about it. She acts like she only has one child. I don’t doubt that she loves her children but she doesn’t show that she really cares about them too much.