-The dialogue in the story helps me understand what is going on in the story and also helps me get to know the people in the story.
- I believe that throughout the story there are different tones. The reason why I say this is because when they were at the uncle's funeral it was sad at first but then I believe that the tone had changed after the funeral. Janie wanted to spend her Saturday night with her friends but ended up staying with her dad talking about the uncle's death.
-The lines ``she couldn't really believe that the whole time they'd known each other his penis was right there with him, in his pants, right there. at school" how i would react to this is that why is it taking them forever to have sex if they knew each other for that long. I also think that it is inappropriate for the author to add it in the story. But people have different opinions.
-"Body fine but face meh". I think that Janie is upset and disappointed when the boys say this to her because what they are basically trying to say is that her body looks good but her face is not attractive enough to please them. I believe that it's disrespectful to say that to a girl no girl wants to hear that because then they are going to start to believe that they are ugly.
- In the conclusion she decides to stay with her father and the other men he was talking to and decide not to go to the party. i think that it was better for her to say at the funeral then to go out with her friends
Hi Stacy, this is mostly a good comment, but I wondered about where the sad tone was. It's true that funerals are usually pretty sad. Maybe you should quote from the story to support your point? Also, it's true that talk of penises and sex more generally might not be appropriate for some age groups. But this is an adult publication. I think this could even be dialogue in most mainstream shows. Why wouldn't it be appropriate?
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