Reading Reflection 1

Questions:

1.       1. Why did he decide to do what he did to himself in the bathroom?

I feel the reasoning for this was because for one, it was somewhere away from everyone else where he could be alone, as well as maybe he thought it wouldn’t be as much as a mess, and if he desperately needed water, he was able to get it fast.

2.       2. What song is this?

When his peers made a video for him while he was in the hospital, there was a song that played

that symbolized something from this past that I couldn’t quite understand it’s reasoning.

3.       3. What happened to Alida?!

One of the burn patients a room over from Brent all of a sudden died in her room and it’s not clear on how she died, or how she got burnt for that matter.

Comments:

1.     1. When Brent was first trying to light himself on fire, after pouring gasoline all over him, his lighter wouldn’t light. It took a few tries for it to actually work, my comment was that maybe something was showing him it was a bad idea, maybe his match wouldn’t light at first for a

certain reason.

3.     2.A comment I had throughout what I have read so far is that it`s amazing to see that after everything that Brent has been through, and with the condition that he is currently in, he can still have a smile on his face, and crack jokes with a good sense of humor. I admire that.

4.     3. A comment I had during the part in the book where he found out  that after the surgery for his    

Back, he`d have to be stuck on his back for a solid 10 days, not being able to move. Those ten days would last a century for me; I don’t even know how I would handle that. I`d be so limited But Brent, being the trooper he is still has a smile on his face with hope that everything will be okay.

5.       Text to Self:

When the author talks about all of the surgeries that Brent has to go through, it gives me a flash back to when I had to get surgeries when I was little. Though they weren`t nearly as bad as Brent’s, I still feel his pain in a way that it`s still a scary thing to go through of course, and the recovery after does truly suck.

Text to Text:

When all of Brent’s friends from school send him a video of them talking to him, telling the camera how much he`s missed, and what he`s missed, asking him questions and such for him to read, it reminds me of a movie I once watched. It`s called Bring it on 3. Where it’s the exact same case, only it was because she switched schools

Predictions:

               My predictions of what will happen next in the book is that eventually, Brent will recover from all this, though it will take a long, long time. Eventually he will be able to return to school again and see all of his friends, with a reminder in the back of his mind, that he has learnt his lesson, and he will never try to commit suicide again. Possilbly having nightmares of his past, and realizing how horrific it was.