I will be given questions about my DigLitCircle book which is Sketches by Eric Walters and I will be answering them. Click here for the Part A questions.
Reading Response Questions A:
1. (The question I had to do). Copy down a quote from a character and explain why you think it's meaningful. What does it suggest about this character's personality? Personal qualities? Etc. Explain your thinking.
The quote from a character in Sketches that I chose and thought was meaningful is at the beginning in the book on page 7, paragraph 2. The character who says this quote is Brent, and it says, “You live on the streets long enough and it changes the way you look... and the way you look at things”. I think this quote is meaningful, because when you live on the streets for a long time, you change completely. You have to rebel and do things that you never have hoped to do in your life, but you would have no choice. Dana is already scamming people to give her money, spraying graffiti on the walls (even though it was a work of art and doing that led her to Sketches.) and more. Maybe, it would be even worse, she could get arrested, participate in violent gang fights, use a harmful weapon and murder someone or maybe even get high on pot or cocaine, etc. Also, living on the streets means that you're penniless, and you have to do what it takes to get a little bit of cash, but sometimes you'd have nothing and would have to go without. You wouldn't be able to eat at every part of the day, or sometimes not have any food in one day at all and you wouldn't have a nice bath or shower everyday, or sometimes not be clean in one day at all, etc. It's different living on the streets than it is at home when you have all of the necessities you need. The quote suggests about Brent's personality and personal qualities, because Brent has been living on the streets for a long time, long enough to know how things change around there. He's a tough guy that's been through stuff, tough enough to protect people like Dana and Ashley, but at the same time beat the bazookas out of people. Also, he's already smoken dope and gotten stoned before. He's probably done even worse things since he was out on the streets longer than Dana. In conclusion to this response, be aware when living on the streets, because you might do some frightening things that you will be forced to do, and you and the things revolving around you will be life-altering.
2. (The question that I chose to do). What were your feelings and first impressions after reading the opening chapters of this book? Explain.
Here are my feelings and first impressions after reading the opening chapters of Sketches, by Eric Walters. When I first started reading the book, I wanted to keep reading, because it began when Dana scamming a woman some to give her money and she met Brent and Ashley already, and I thought that Sketches was gonna start with Dana running away, learning why and how she ran away in the first place, leaving behind everything, moving to Downtown Toronto to live on the streets and learning about the first few days coping with life on the streets for the first time, but no, Eric Walters wants us to keep reading further to learn more about how it all began and that's a great characteristic in an author. Another reason I wanted to keep reading, because the way Eric Walters described everything was so descriptive and easy to visualize, I felt like I was in Downtown Toronto watching and hearing the different scenarios in this book, like a movie. I kept on reading, and when I hit the part when the man offered Dana two twenty dollars, but only to have sexual encounters with her really made me want to read ahead and not put down the book for a single second. That's intense, I've never read a book so crazy in my life. Eric Walters had made his own perspective about coping with life on the streets, and it's so life-like. I feel like that's exactly how it's like when you're homeless and on the streets. In conclusion to this response, this is an excellent book and even though I didn't read the whole book yet, I would highly recommend this book, and I would read other books by Eric Walters.
There you have it, that was my Sketches Reader's Response Part A! Part B will be posted in two weeks. Thank you, and have a calm and relaxing day, read a book by Eric Walters!
