Tinkers, a fictional novel by Paul Harding

We learn a lot about Howard in this section of the book. his intense seizers, his friends, or rather friend, and his daydreams. Meanwhile, much more about George's family is presented during this section, making the readers get a better feel on George and his feelings toward his family. By now the readers have learned that the author particularly likes to add facts or small story like things that apply to what is currently going on or what has gone on with either characters. I have noticed that this helps me to better understand what either character is into or how/why they are doing or did something.



Question #7:
Though I'm now only a half of the way through this novel, I feel it has, at some amount, broadened my knowledge on how hard others have to work for simple things. Many people now take too many thing for granted even when we know that there are people out there in the world who's "norm" is so much more difficult than ours and even sometimes threatening. While we here about those types of things on the news or in short articles that most people don't even read, we don't really get to experience it one on one or even here first hand stories about it. I feel this book is great for really providing an in depth play by play of people who really made a good life out of what they had, even though what they had was so much less than what most people are lucky to have

Question #9:
The following is a passage that stuck with me mostly because I presume it means that Gilbert, a "friend" of Howard's, has died. I'm not 100 percent on that but it seems to fit considering that Gilbert was missing for days prior to this short paragraph.
"As he smoked, he listened to the voices in the rapids. they murmured about a place somewhere deep in the woods where a set of bones lay on a bed of moss, above which a troop of mournful flies had kept vigil the previous autumn until the frosts came and they, too, had succumbed."