Margret Mahy - Memory

Mess and Money: 08/06/2021

Johnny was helping Sophie cleaning up when he found a lot of money. He wanted to keep it but we haven't found out what he did yet. I think he should leave the money even if Sophie doesn't know it was there because if he was Sophie he wouldn't want someone to take that kind of cash.

Values - Beliefs that guide us through our everyday life to help us make the right choices and so we know the wrong from right. Values "

Morals - They are like values.

Poetic Text: 27/05/2021

Quotes Pg 25-30 -
"A night wind, patrolling the city, rushed at him, its paws on his chest, slapping his face with an icy tongue."
"Feeling like a man from outer space revisiting the world after the neutron bomb had killed every living thing but left all properties intact, he hesitated."
"A moment later he made out a short, thin, old woman wearing a hat like a crimson chamber-pot without a handle."

JOHNNY:

Facts about Jonny -

1. He is drunk "I'm not THAT drunk Jonny argued aloud,"
   
2. His mother, father, and his twin siblings are alive but Janine (his sister is dead0'
3. Janine's photo is on the TV "The twins had continued to push and squeak, but all they knew of Janine was her photograph smiling from the top of the TV set'

Jonny's emotions - 

1. Grieving "hoping to hold off attacks of memory"
2. Brave "Jonny stepped boldly towards the lighted window knowing there would be hundreds of traps and pitfalls for anyone wandering through the darkness."

Describe Jonny - 

1. Swollen eye, battered face, puffy lips "Jonny touched his battered face," "One eye was swollen, though not entirely closed." "His lips felt puffy."