Sunday, April 20, 2014

Week 3 Discussion Question:

In the chapter, Field Trip, Kek has a new experience, just as he has at the grocery store and library. At the zoo, he really watches the people. Think about all of his experiences and reread pages 148-149. What is the heavy burden Kek carries with him?

15 comments:

  1. Kek knows his family is with him. That means that they will all be in his heart and always will be.

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    1. What I don't get about your post is that feeling wouldn't be very heavy, it would be more like comforting.

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    2. I agree with you Sierra. It would be comforting. I love your second sentance though.

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    3. I also don’t really understand this response because it doesn’t have that much details. I don’t think this is really a heavy burden it is more comforting because I think of my parents and family and it makes me really comfort so that is why I think it is more comforting then heavy.

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    4. Not just in his heart but also in his mind, and that is what haunts Kek is the bad memories in his mind which reminds him of everything he lost.

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  2. Kek carries a burden of missing his family because they’re all gone except for his Mama he thinks.All his friends gone.All his family gone.

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    1. Gunnar, I agree with you that his burden would be his family dieing and him losing his home. But I also thought that Kek wants to remember the good memories about home and that is why he took the job with Gol.




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    2. I really like that you made a sentence so descriptive and thoughtful. I do agree at the part when you said “ burden of missing his family because they’re all gone except for his Mama he thinks.All his friends gone.All his family gone.” I now think that I could change my response and put in what you put.

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    3. I disagree because Hannah is his friend, and Hannah isn’t gone.

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  3. Kek’s burden that he carry’s is that he can’t stop thinking about his old life. He want’s to move on in life but things from the past keep on coming back and haunting him. Something in our life will remind him of the past and BOOM he is feeling sad and depressed. Sometimes he wants to feel like he is in the past because in the past he was happy. A example of that is when he gets the job on the farm he feels a lot better because he is with the cow which reminds him of home.

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    1. I really like your ideas, James. I bet that the sight of his family dying was a haunting thought. I get your ideas, your thinking was clear.

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  4. I think that the heavy burden that Kek carries with him is the memories. He wishes that his family could see all the things that he is seeing, but they can’t, because they are dead, except for maybe the mom. Another burden is not knowing. On page 83, in the chapter “Not Knowing,” it says “I pause, as a memory pokes at me like a knife in my back. I was lucky to see, I add. Lucky? Hannah asks. Her voice says she doesn’t understand. Nishan looks at me with eyes that know of such things. Maybe Kek means lucky to know for sure, she explains. Not knowing, it’s the hardest.” He knows about his father and brother, but he does not know anything about his mother. I think that is most of the “heavy burden.”

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  5. The heavy burden that Kek carries with him is him adjusting to America. I think this is what Kek carries is because he is learning new things like a zoo,snow, new people, grocery stores, and animals and he is enjoying some of the things that he has just learned about and so things he doesn’t really like. Ex: “ This feels like claws on my skin.” shows he doesn’t enjoy it. When kek was looking at the people at the zoo shows use that Kek likes to experience different people but not if a creepy way.

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  6. All of Kek’s cool experiences explain what I think a heavy burden is to him. I think that a heavy burden he carries is good thoughts and memories about what he saw and old things he misses, but not able to share the memories with good friends or family because they are not living anymore. He carries these thoughts with him about old things from home and new things from cool experiences and sometimes gets sad about not being able to share thoughts and old memories about his home that make him not as happy.

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  7. The heavy burden Kek carries with him is his family. It says that on page # 149 at the bottom. It says I walk behind my classmates to the next exhibit,but I am not alone. My family is with me, and every sight is something they cannot see, and every hope is something they cannot feel. To carry them,unseen as wind, is a heavy burden.

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