Boy’s Life 4
By Robert McCammon
Quotations
• “ They may look grown-up, but it’s a disguise. It’s just
the clay of time. Men and women are still children
deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and
play, but that heavy clay won’t let them. They’d like to
shake off every chain the world’s put on them, take off
their watches and neckties and Sunday shoes and
return naked to the swimming hole, if just for one day.
They’d like to feel free, and know that there’s a
mamma and daddy at home who’ll take care of things
and love them no matter what.”
• “ I never knew what hate really was until I thought of
somebody wrapping up a bomb and putting it in a
church on a Sunday morning to kill little girls.”
Quotations
• “Heathen trash! Sex garbage! God
help our daughters!”
• “COERY JAT MACKEMAON. DAVY
RSU CALKAN. JIHNMY QULSON.
BEM SEARS. REBEL. OLF MOSES.
THE LADT BURNUNG CROSD.
BRAMKINS. GREEN-FEATHRED
HAT. ZEPHIR. ZEPHTR. ZEPHYR.”
Quotations
• “ Listen, here! Don’t you stand on my
lawn and tell me what’s right or wrong for
my son! You didn’t worry yourself crazy
when he was three years old and he almost
died of pneumonia! And where was his
father? His father was on the road tryin’
to sell enough shirts to keep us from
bankruptcy! But we lost that house, that
pretty house with the window boxes, we
lost that house anyway! And would
anybody help us? Not a one! So we lost
that house, where my pretty dog is buried
in the backyard!”
The Big Questions
• Contrast the two religious services in
the novel.
• Discuss the loss of innocence in this
excerpt from the novel.
• What purpose do you think a
character like Nemo represents in the
book?
Literary Terms for next time
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Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Context Clue
Inference
Word Root
Matching for BL 5
• Mayor
Swope
• Chile
Willow
• Biggun
Blaylock
• Green
Feather
• Bruno
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Mr. Hargison
Nemo Curliss
Leatherlungs
Inez
Third Place
• Brenda Sutley
• Johnny
• Mercury Head
Dime
• Tom
Mackenson
• Four black girls