"He also said I should use the vocabulary words that I learned in class like "corpulent" and "jaundice." I would use them here, but I really don't think they are appropriate in this format." (page 14)
In the book, Charlie never defined "corpulent" or "jaundice", so I had to look them up for myself.
corpulent |ˈkôrpyələnt|adjective - (of a person) fat.ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin corpulentus, from corpus ‘body.’
jaundice |ˈjôndis|noun - a medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin and typically caused by obstruction of the bile duct, by liver disease, or by excessive breakdown of red blood cells.• bitterness, resentment, or envy.ORIGIN Middle English jaunes, from Old French jaunice ‘yellowness,’ from jaune ‘yellow.’ The sense ‘bitterness’(late 16th cent.) arose from the traditional association of the color yellow with jealousy.
"Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lineshe wrote a poemAnd he called it "Chops"because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an Aand a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen doorand read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracytook all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was bornwith tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X'sand he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do it
- This quote was worded weirdly to me. It believe that Charlie is trying to say that he hasn't quite gotten used to the fact that his friend Michael is gone forever, and can't "clearly" miss him because Charlie believes that Michael might come back.
jaundice |ˈjôndis|noun - a medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin and typically caused by obstruction of the bile duct, by liver disease, or by excessive breakdown of red blood cells.• bitterness, resentment, or envy.ORIGIN Middle English jaunes, from Old French jaunice ‘yellowness,’ from jaune ‘yellow.’ The sense ‘bitterness’(late 16th cent.) arose from the traditional association of the color yellow with jealousy.
"Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lineshe wrote a poemAnd he called it "Chops"because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an Aand a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen doorand read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracytook all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was bornwith tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X'sand he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do it
Once on a piece of white paper with blue lineshe wrote a poemAnd he called it "Autumn"because that was the name of the seasonAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an Aand asked him to write more clearlyAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen doorbecause of its new paintAnd the kids told himthat Father Tracy smoked cigarsAnd left butts on the pewsAnd sometimes they would burn holesThat was the year his sister got glasseswith thick lenses and black framesAnd the girl around the corner laughedwhen he asked her to go see Santa ClausAnd the kids told him whyhis mother and father kissed a lotAnd his father never tucked him in bed at nightAnd his father got madwhen he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebookhe wrote a poemAnd he called it "Innocence: A Question"because that was the question about his girlAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his professor gave him an Aand a strange steady lookAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen doorbecause he never showed herThat was the year that Father Tracy diedAnd he forgot how the endof the Apostle's Creed wentAnd he caught his sistermaking out on the back porchAnd his mother and father never kissedor even talkedAnd the girl around the cornerwore too much makeupThat made him cough when he kissed herbut he kissed her anywaybecause that was the thing to doAnd at three a.m. he tucked himself into bedhis father snoring soundly
That's why on the back of a brown paper baghe tried another poemAnd he called it "Absolutely Nothing"Because that's what it was really all aboutAnd he gave himself an Aand a slash on each damned wristAnd he hung it on the bathroom doorbecause this time he didn't thinkhe could reach the kitchen." (page 70-72)
- This poem was very touching and interesting. It really does leave me speechless, but full of thought that I cannot put into words. But what really got my thinking, was where it was placed. The poem in the book isn't placed when Charlie reads it, but placed later on the same night after Sam kisses Charlie. I was curious whether or not it was intentional to put it there, or if Charlie was waiting to put it the end of the letter for that day.
"It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense." (page 4)
- This quote was worded weirdly to me. It believe that Charlie is trying to say that he hasn't quite gotten used to the fact that his friend Michael is gone forever, and can't "clearly" miss him because Charlie believes that Michael might come back.
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