Deadline DQs Chapter 1-10

One
1. How is the narrator not like the average senior?

-He foun out that he only have one year to live, so that gave him courage to do stuff.
2. What has put a damper on his plans?

-he only have one year to live, and he knows it.
3. Describe his parents and the relationship between his parents.
Give specific details from the novel.

-His mom is an alcoholic and his dad doesn’t really do anything to help. However, his dad is very loyal and keeps his promises, so he didn’t get a divorce with his wife.
4. What decision has Ben made that angers Doc Wagner?

-Ben decided not to tell his parents about his illness.
5. What is Ben’s attitude toward dying? If you received Ben’s news,
how would you react?

-He pretend like everything’s fine and live his life to the fullest.
Two
6. Why is Ben trying out for Football and not Cross Country? What
do you think about his decision?

-Cody was on the football team, so he have the advantage, besides he’s good at running. He’s small, so nobody expects him to play football. I think that it’s ironic, because he’s a really good runner, so he should try out for cross country instead of football, but he did the exact oposite.
Three
7. Who is Marla Dawson? What does Ben think of her?

-Marla is Ben’s doctor and his “compromise”.
8. Why does he feel he is betraying his family?

-He didn’t tell his family about his illness and that made him feel guilty.
9. What is significant about Ben’s dream?

-He talk to Hey-soo like a real person, but he was in a dream instead of the real world, and they talk about what they’re going to do with ben’s life.
Four
10. Compare Coach to Ben. What are at least two similarities
between the two?

-Coach is all about how big you are, but Ben is more about how you think. Ben only have one year to live and he knows it, so that makes him live like it’s his last moment.
11. How did Ben make an impression on Dallas? What does he
attribute his “forwardness” to?

-He talks to her and makes her think that he’s cool. He have more strength to do what he wanted to do from day one, because he only have a year to live.
Five
12. Who is Sooner? What is he like?

-Sooner’s the guy on the football team. He’s a bully to everybody, except Cody, because Cody’s the QB of the football team.
13. What does Ben do to try and boost his “celestial resume”?
Why?

-he tried to go against the “senioritis” grain, because he thinks that they didn’t prepare them enough for the real world.
14. How did Ben’s date with Dallas go? How was it different
from an ordinary date?

-The date went out great, because he’s going to homecoming dance with her. The date wasn’t like an ordinary date, because Dallas interviewed him for the school’s paper instead of the usual talk.
Six
15. How do Marla and Ben seem to “connect”?

-They both have to see therapy.
16. What is Ben thinking by the lake at the end of the chapter?

-He feels like he’s already dead, and he doesn’t have any idea if he got closer to Dallas or just farther apart.
Seven
17. What secret does Rudy slip to Ben? What is the
significance?

-Ruby used to be a Catholic priest, but he wont let anyone else know anout it. So they kind of share a secret in a way.
18. What happened to Sooner? How do you think it happened?
How do the plans change?

-He got beat up by his dad and now he cant play football anymore. His dad probably hit him hard or something. One spot is missing on the team so they have to fill up that spot and shange the game plan.
Eight
19. What trick does Cody pull at the end of the game? How
was it successful?

-He put Ben on the open spot and pass the ball to him. They pretend that he was a bad catcher at first, and then they fooled them at the end of the game.
Nine
20. The theme of secrecy has appeared several times in the
novel so far. What is Dallas’s secret? What does this mean for
Ben’s secret?

-Dallas was raped by her uncle. And now Ben might be tempted to share his secret with her.
Ten
21. The theme of connections comes up again at breakfast the
morning after the Homecoming Dance. How does this theme
appear with Ben’s father?

-He wants to let Ben and his mom talk about sexual stuff, because he’s not really good at that kind of talk.
22. What does Ben propose for his Civics Project? Why does he
do this?

-He’s doing his project on Malcolm X. he wants equallity among the people.
23. What happens with Marla? Explain the metaphor with the
oxygen mask.

-She left, because she cant take it anmore. The oxygen mask is the healing process for both of them, but Marla tried to help Ben before she help herself. So she’s saying that she cant do it anymore. She’s soppose to help herself first.