Reading Log (for short stories)
Your name
Tim Shao
Student No.
4A4C0087
Date
21, OCT. 2015
Title
Reading level
Author
Publisher
Please answer at least two of the following questions. Your answers should be at
least 150 words.
1. What was the main problem in the story? State the problem, how the main
character dealt with it, and how you would have dealt with it differently.
The main problem is the boy's mother left him and his brother. And he was
sent to a foster home. The teachers annoyed him and the kids in the new place made
him mad when them said something bad about his mother. However, as a brother, he
just pretended to be okay.
If I were the boy, I don't think I could be as brave as he was. It's also annoying to me
that some people kept asking me whether I am alright when I am in bad mood. As
for the missing of mother, I would try to find her as much as I could. In the mean
time, I'd find someone trustworthy to share my feeling because I think it's unhealthy
to hide the motion.
2. Write a letter to one of the characters giving him or her advice about dealing
with problems.
To Mrs. Ramos:
I do appreciate your kindness to help to take care of the boy, especially that
you treated him as your own child. Nevertheless, I think you might try more to help
the boy adapt to the new life in a new place. Additionally, try to help him to find his
mother. Maybe you could talk to him more often than not. I believe that in his deep
heart have lots of things to share, but he's just too brave to hide himself. I know
you've done everything you could. I just want to help the boy so eagerly because I
had the same experience with him. So this above is what I wished others did to me
as I was getting through all those sadness. Again, thank you for everything you've
done.
Highest honor,
Tim
3. Make up a different ending for the story.
Despite my mom left Jimmy and me again, but at least I know where she is
now. And, to my joy, my lovely brother came back to me living with me in Mrs.
Ramos' house. Now, I can share the same feeling about mom with him and play with
him. You know what? It ain't so bad.
4. What experiences or memories did the story remind you of?
When I was little, I always cried after my mom rode me to the kindergarden
and dropped me off there. I thought my mother was leaving me and would never
come back then. Moreover, one time my parents went to Bali for a trip, and they left
my brother and me at my grandma's house. I cried everyday and asked my grandma
to call my mom. Interestingly, when I taught my LEGO class in one elementary
school, a little boy came with his mother. I saw him turning back to hug his mom
and after he stepped into the classroom, he burst into tears all of a sudden. I was
shocked but also felt funny because he reminded me my childhood.