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I liked the line that Uncle Daddy said to Rivers when they wwre talking in his new room about how his relationship was going with his father.
"No reason why you can't have a slice of us both."
I think that Rivers was concerned about having to choose between his father and his Uncle Daddy and was probably relieved when Uncle Daddy simply answered that he would still be a part of his life even if his father is in it now too.
There is a quote that I really enjoyed, from when Uncle Daddy and Rivers were outside, while his mother and father were talking.
“Sometimes grown-ups really drive me crazy.”
“There’s a fourth-grade boy in my school,” Uncle Daddy said. “He calls me and the teachers g-r-o-a-n-ups because we make him groan.”
“Groan-ups,” I said with a little laugh. “Hey, that’s pretty good.”(p. 50)
I think that children can defiantly relate to this quote. I think that this quote also helps set Uncle Daddy apart from the other “groan-ups”. It would be interesting to have a class discussion about the difference between grownups and “groan-ups”.
I was having trouble getting the book on time. I had ordered it through amazon, but it hasn't arrived yet, so I downloaded an audio version and listened to it. That makes this assignment a little difficult. However, I do recall Uncle daddy saying when he gets upset something like, "I'm going to cloud up and rain down on you." I'm sure I don't have that exactly correct, but I thought it was an interesting thing for him to say. He let people know how upset he was, without having to yell.
The quotes about Uncle Daddy saying that adults drive him crazy sometimes and his comment about "Groan-ups" really showed how he empathzed with children and how that made him such a great principal and "uncle daddy".
I really enjoyed some of the langauge in the book and found it very touching and captivating. I couldn't put the book down.
One of the lines that I thought was quite touching was when Rivers goes outside to douse the bonfire with Uncle Daddy he says:
"In the darkness I reached out and found his big hand. I gave it a little squeeze, and he squeezed back." It was as though without saying any words Rivers needed the comfort of his Uncle Daddy. When Uncle Daddy squeezes his hand right back in a sense he is saying everythings going to be alright. I also liked when Rivers thinks about how fireflies used to make him feel sad. He said, "I felt sorry for them the way they wandered through the night shining their tiny flashlights, as if they were looking for something they had lost and would never find. Like me. But tonight they seemed like they had found what they were looking for, or something close to it, and I felt lucky they had chosen our backyard to shine their strange, wild light."
This was so beautifully written. I love how Rivers compares his feelings about his father's absence to the fireflies looking for something they had lost and would never find. Then he goes on to say that tonight they seemed like they found what they were looking for. This shows how Rivers felt like something was missing all these years that his dad was gone. He never quite knew what had happened. And now he is more self assured and at ease now that he knows the truth and has his dad back in his life.
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