Looking at the images and title of the text, what do you think the story is about? I think that someone might get sent to hospital,or someone having to read a poem their favourite poem.
Look at the layout of the text and the different fonts the author has used, why do you think he has done this? To try and tell the reader that it is going to be a sad story and to let the reader feel sad and to feel sorry about the person in the text of the book.
Why was the little boys father not supposed to do any strenuous work? Because something sad might happen like he might faint or have a heart attack because he has a heart problem.
Why was he embarrassed of his father at times? He is embarrassed because his father is old and he reads poems when the son’s friends come by and say hi.
Why would the little boy try avoid his father when he has friends around? Because his friends might laugh when his friends hear his father singing a poem about a war.
How do you think his father would have felt? Do you think his dad knew he was avoiding him? Why/why not? He would of felt happy singing a poem about a war , and I think that his father did not know about his son avoiding him.
What words kept coming into the boys head as he was in the waiting room at the hospital? For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, and breathed in the face of the foe as he passed.
Analyse these lines, what do they mean to you? I think it is about the father because the angels come and support about the fathers heart problem and the death spreads his wings on the blast , and that means when his father dies the death’s wings spread on the past , And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed and that means that as his father breaths in the face of the angels we would have faith as he past the way.
Why was mum’s voice “choked up”? Mum’s voice was choked up because she was afraid that her husband might past the way and she might need to raise 1 child all by herself on her own.
Why do you think the little boy did not want to see his father? Refer to the image also.
Looking at the colours the illustrator has used in the text, what type of mood does it create? Why does it create this mood? The author done the colour of the text because he can let the reader know that it will be a sad story.
Read up tp page 25 and predict what you think the nurse wanted to talk to mum about? I think that the nurse wanted to tell mum that her partner was going to die and past the way and she also told her that he blood pressure was too high.
Why couldn’t the little boy sit with his father and talk to him? Because he was afraid that he might tell him something and he was also scared that he would die , but I think that it was a great Idea to talk to him so that would be the last word to say to him before he would die.
If you were in the little boys shoes how would you feel? (Think about being empathetic)
I will be sad and awful about my father dying in the hospital and I will sorry about the boys father.
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