Boy’s Life 4

1. Boy’s Life 4 By Robert McCammon

2. Quotations • “ They may look grown-up, but it’s a disguise. It’s just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won’t let them. They’d like to shake off every chain the world’s put on them, take off their watches and neckties and Sunday shoes and return naked to the swimming hole, if just for one day. They’d like to feel free, and know that there’s a mamma and daddy at home who’ll take care of things and love them no matter what.” • “ I never knew what hate really was until I thought of somebody wrapping up a bomb and putting it in a church on a Sunday morning to kill little girls.”

3. Quotations • “Heathen trash! Sex garbage! God help our daughters!” • “COERY JAT MACKEMAON. DAVY RSU CALKAN. JIHNMY QULSON. BEM SEARS. REBEL. OLF MOSES. THE LADT BURNUNG CROSD. BRAMKINS. GREEN-FEATHRED HAT. ZEPHIR. ZEPHTR. ZEPHYR.”

4. Quotations • “ Listen, here! Don’t you stand on my lawn and tell me what’s right or wrong for my son! You didn’t worry yourself crazy when he was three years old and he almost died of pneumonia! And where was his father? His father was on the road tryin’ to sell enough shirts to keep us from bankruptcy! But we lost that house, that pretty house with the window boxes, we lost that house anyway! And would anybody help us? Not a one! So we lost that house, where my pretty dog is buried in the backyard!”

5. The Big Questions • Contrast the two religious services in the novel. • Discuss the loss of innocence in this excerpt from the novel. • What purpose do you think a character like Nemo represents in the book?

6. Literary Terms for next time • Idiom • Onomatopoeia • Context Clue • Inference • Word Root

7. Matching for BL 5 • Brenda Sutley •  Johnny •  Mercury Head Dime •  Tom Mackenson • Four black girls • Mr. Hargison • NemoCurliss • Leatherlungs •  Inez •  Third Place • Mayor Swope • Chile Willow • BiggunBlaylock • Green Feather • Bruno