Look at the importance of father figures in this story. It pinned this day to them forever after. What is the reference here? Discuss the various implications and meanings of this statement in the context of not only what is happening but what has happened.

'I won’t get an A this time, her look seemed to say' (92).All the kids Cammy’s age called it the bluety' (85). The next second, she felt peevish that she wasn’t more like her' (73). Cammy felt hard as nails inside toward her one second. Who is speaking here? What predictions can be made about Patty Ann and about Cammie? 'But Patty Ann wouldn’t be disturbed until she had practices her entire lesson' (28).Consider the implications of nominalization of 'to care.' Discuss the spatial dynamics of this description. Outside, Cammy wondered why all of the folks didn’t just walk on away and live under the trees in the woods' (23). Shade trees and woods surrounded the Care on three sides. 'Beyond the glass door was bright sunshine and summer. How is it possible to lose time and 'speed it up'? (14) She could speed it up, though, when she felt like it' foreshadows and hints at the element of time in the story. Don’t overlook such statements as 'held her breath' in your analysis.

Discuss how this game is ironically connected to the theme of the story. Pretend dead-as-a-doornail was what Cammy called it' (10). It was a rough game that Tut manged to play with Cammy.

'You’re not dead yet are you? There was a long moment in which Cammy held her breath.

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