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On what memorable day in history does this story take place?
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November 22,1963 the day president Kennedy was assassinated
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How does the narrator 1st become aware of Eugene?
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She sees him from her fire escape, where she likes to read
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Why does the narrator like Eugene even before she meets him?
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She sees that he spends a lot of time reading and she feels as though he is also the perfect example of a typical normal American kid should be. She wants so bad to feel normal
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According to mother,how does Elena seem to feel about Eugene?
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She is infatuated with his life. Mom says she is being unrealistic,forgetting that they live in different parts of society and is only setting herself up for humiliation and pain
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How does eugenes mother react to Elenas visit?
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She is very disrespectful. She thinks Elena is nothing but trouble for Eugene. Tells her to go away
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Author?
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Judith Ortiz cofer
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Fiction or non fiction?
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Fiction
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Where does Elena live?
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Patterson,New Jersey
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El building was always a what?
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Monstrous jukebox (always playing music)
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What is a tenement?
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Run down and often over crowded apartment
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What was the Puerto Rican tenement known as?
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El building
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The day Kennedy was shot, what was el building?
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Silent
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What was the sacred heart in the story?
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Image "of the heart of Christ" many women kept this on their wall by Jesus in there homes
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What was a spiritist?
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Belief that the dead could communicate with the living
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What grade was Elena in?
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9th
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Where did she go to school?
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Public school number 13
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Who was Elenas PE teacher?
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Mr. DePalma
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What month could you employ story written? And what month?
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Winter and November
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What would the girls at school tell Elena?
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Hey skinny bones
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Who was Gail?
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One of the biggest black girls that was bullying her
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Why does the author reference hot and cold in the story?
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Cause she is emphasizing that Elena is the only one complaining about it
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What did Elena say was the only source of beauty and light for her that school year?
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Seeing Eugene
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When did Eugene and his family move in?
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August
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Where did Eugene and his family move into?
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2 story house that had yard and trees
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How could Elena see eugenes house?
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From her window
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Where would she sit to watch Eugene?
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Fire escape
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Where was Elenas favorite place to read?
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Fire escape
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She only liked to sit outside on fire escape when?
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In summer
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Who was the 2 story house occupied by before Eugene?
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An old Jewish couple
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Until when was the 2 story building occupied?
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August
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What did Elena have a view of in the 2 story house when Jewish couple lived there?
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Their kitchen and their backyard
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When did the old man die?
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June
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What did Eugene's mother look like?
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She was a redheaded tall woman who wore a white uniform and nurses probably
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What are some things about Eugene's father?
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He was gone before she got up in the morning and he was never at the dinner table for supper
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When did Elenas see Eugene's father?
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Only on the weekends when they sometimes sat in the lawn chairs under the oak tree.
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What did Eugene look like?
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He was a tall blonde and more glasses
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Her school was what?
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Overpopulated and huge
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At her school what classes were Eugene in?
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Honors
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Why weren't the honors classes open to Elena?
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They weren't open her because English was not her first language but she was in A student
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When Elena first met Eugene what was he to her?
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Nice
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What was Elena expecting from Eugene?
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To reject her like evryone else does
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What does El building do?
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Blocked the sun
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What did elenas mother tell her about how she was acting?
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She was being moony and enamored (lovesick)
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How old was Elena?
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14
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Elenas dad worked where?
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Blue jean factory
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What did elenas family do every Sunday?
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Drove out to the suburbs of patterson
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What were elenas parents dreams spoken in?
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Spanish
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Where did elenas family once live?
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Puerto Rico
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What did elenas mom constantly talking about living?
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On a beach
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What was Elena going to college to be?
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Teacher (want better life)
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What book did she start reading?
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Gone with the wind
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Where did Eugenes family come from?
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Georgia
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Why did they move to Patterson? (Eugenes family)
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Because his father worked for a company that transferred him there
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Eugene said his mother was what?
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Unhappy
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What did the kids at school call him?
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The hick
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What did the kids make fun of him for?
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The way he talked
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Who was mr depalma?
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Short muscular man Pe coach Disciplinarian and science teacher
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Why would kids go to me depalma?
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If they were trouble makers
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Why was mr depalma crying in class?
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Because the president die
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What did elenas mom think she was being when she said she was going to friends house on day the president died?
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Disrespectful
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What did he mom say was going to happen to Elena because she was talking to Eugene?
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She was heading for humiliation and pain
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Who answered door when Elena went see Eugene?
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His mother
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What do eugenes mother do to her?
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Rejected her
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When Elena arrived home where was her mother?
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With other people Grieving about the death of there president
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Why did the immmigrante mainly cry of the death of Kennedy?
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He fought for them
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