Chap6

1.David’s father often would ask him “are you ok tiger” when they washed dishes together.
2.At one point David’s mother didn’t feed him for ten days.
3.David’s mom would sarcastically say “oh poor baby” when she would touchier him.
4.David wanted more than anything to be treated like a normal person.
5.Father is David’s protector because when he’s home his mom doesn't do as bad stuff to him as she usually does.
6.David goes 10 days without food when his dad isn't their.
7.Mother’s favorite games was the gas chamber and the cold bath.
8.The bucket mother would prepare would be ammonia and Clorox.
9.Mother got the idea from reading it somewhere.
10.David coughed up blood for an hour after the gas chamber.
11.David’s mother would beat him with a broom stick occasionally.
12.Mother makes David mow grass for money.
13.David’s brothers don’t help because they don’t have to help.
14.The first person to treat David with respect was his substitute teacher.
15.At David's house it was tradition to carve pumpkins for Halloween.
16.David’s mom decided to let him sleep in his fathers bed.
17.In the last month of summer a social worker came to David’s house.
18.David got roller skates for Christmas as a new torcher instrument.
19.David felt that he was back in the family when his mom apologized and promised to change.
20.Shirley was the next door neighbor who lived across the street.
21.When Shirley was around mom acted like a kind loving parent.
22.His mother changed an was nice.
23.Yes David's mother returned to her normal self after a while.
24.David believes her because he just wants to be loved.
25.Mother was only kind to David because she new a social worker was coming.

chap6

•Disposal- : the power or authority to dispose or make use of as one chooses
•EXP: The Disposal get rid of any excess food.
•Pathetic- : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity
•Exp: The little poor boy with the tattered clothes looked pathetic.
•Lenient- exerting a soothing or easing influence
•Exp: The principal was real lenient with her punishment
•Morbid- of, relating to, or characteristic of disease
•Exp: The woman weighed 500 ponds and was morbidly obese.
•Deteriorated- to become impaired in quality, functioning, or condition
•Exp: The body deteriorated after three days in the sun.
•Instinctively- prompted by natural instinct or propensity : arising spontaneously
•Exp: The alligators instinctively know how to swim when they get in the water.
•Dignity-the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed
•Exp: The man had no dignity after the whole crowd spit on him.