Setting
In the Kentucky Star Motel.
Where is Rob living?
Third person point of view.
What is the point of view that this story is being told from?
Grabbed hold of Rob's hair and ground his knuckles into his scalp.
What is what Norton and Billy Threemonger did to Rob on the bus?
A sharp nose and a sharp chin and black, black eyes.
What is how Sistine looked when she was staring at the Threemongers?
Moved to Lister.
Why is Rob's mother died?
In the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel.
Where is the place that Rob was walking hoping to get lost or eaten by a bear?
Rob
Who is hoping to get lost or eaten by a bear?
Ignored what was happening.
What is what Mr. Nelson, the bus driver, did while Billy and Norton were bothering Rob?
Sat behind and whispered things.
What is what Norton and Billy Threemonger did to Sistine once she sat down on the bus?
Wishing on the Kentucky Star Motel sign.
What is hoping for some good luck?
Behind the old Beauchamp gas station builiding.
Where is did Rob find the tiger in its cage?
Rob's father.
Who is taking out their sadness and anger out on Rob about life?
Not cried since, not once.
What is how long it has been since Rob has cried about his mother's death?
Like they are playing a game of tag.
What is what the picture of God reaching out to Adam in the painting on the Sistine Chapel?
To be the best not-crier in the world.
Why does Rob stuff all of his emotions into his "suitcase"?
Lister
Where did Rob live before his mother died?
Norton and Billy Threemonger
Who are the boys that are bullying Rob?
What is what Mr. Nelson did that confused Norton and Billy Threemonger?
Kept the suitcase closed.
What is what Rob does whenever he is starting to feel ANY kind of emotion?
Turn them into not-thoughts.
What is the way Rob describes how he handles the thoughts that could make him sad?
In the library of his old school.
Where is the place that Rob has seen a picture of the Sistine Chapel?
Sistine
Who insulted all of the kids on the bus by saying,"It isn't my fault you don't have good clothes"?
Wore a pink lacy dress to school.
What is what Sistine was wearing to school when she got onto the school bus?
Gravelly and deep, and the words sounded clipped and strange, like she was cutting each one of them out with a cookie cutter.
What is what Sistine's voice sounded like.
He has the "creeping crud" or a rash with blisters on his legs.
What is the way that Rob's body is reacting to the fact that he is stuffing all of his emotions and sadness into his "suitcase"?