The Town With No Mirrors
The name of the community where Zailey lives.
What is Gladder Hill?
The names of all the kids who are traveling to space.
What is Mae, David, Kal, and Fin?
The grade levels of the three main characters in the story.
What is grade 2, 4, and 6?
The reason why Ellie was upset at the beginning of the story.
What is:
Finding out that her goldfish isn't the same one from Kindergarten.
or
Her BF is no longer spending time with her?
The name of the illness that Marty's grandmother is suffering from.
What is pneumonia?
The materials that are banned in the town of Gladder Hill.
What is anything that reflects, such as mirrors?
The occupation of Fin's uncle and mom.
What are pilots?
The point of view the author uses in this story.
What is First Person POV?
Grandfather's problem throughout the story.
What is grandfather wanted to get his chemical from the lab?
Marty's father's job.
What is a mail carrier?
The motto for Gladder Hill.
What is everyone's gladder in Gladder Hill?
The name of the spacecraft that they will use to travel to space. Spell it.
What is Aether?
Kids used this to find the map of the door to the alternate world.
What is mother's business logos?
The effect of drinking T-Melvinus.
What is becoming younger?
Two pieces of evidence that shows us how poor Marty's family is.
What is
Mom cuts pieces of her shoe to extend her children's shoes,
They don't have a telephone,
They have to hunt for their food,
Marty's bed is the sofa in the living room?
Three facts about how or where Gladder Hill was made to avoid any engagement of Superficial Thoughts.
What is:
Gladder Hill is in a dry location to avoid any rainfall,
The windows are barred to avoid the use of glass,
The water is clouded in the bathrooms and kitchen to avoid being reflected,
Etc.?
One of Fin's Jokes:
Why didn't the sun go to college?
Because it already has 27 million degrees.
The kids' father was killed and the rest of the family had to escape the alternate world. The reason for this.
What is the kids' parents, involved in an activist group, risked their family's safety by challenging the corrupt government?
What grandfather does when he finally gets his chemicals.
What is flush it down the toilet?
Marty must lie in order to keep Shiloh. Three things he lied about.
What is:
Lied to Judd Travers about not seeing Shiloh,
Told the store owner he needed cheap food for the family,
Told David that he couldn't come over because his mother had headaches,
Told David's mother that he wanted an extra sandwich to eat on the way home,
Etc.?
Zailey always wanted to see her reflection and leave her community because they banned the use of mirrors. The expected outcome when she finally escapes would be that she can see her reflection. However, in actuality, she can't see herself because her face is bandaged up. The literary element this contrast between expectation and reality creates.
What is irony?
“Feels oddly freeing to be trapped out here in space where no once can hear me scream.”(p.195) Being free and trapped seem to be opposites. The literary element that was used.
What is irony? (the unexpected feeling of freedom in a situation where one might expect fear or confinement creates irony.)
What is paradox? (the combination of feeling "freed" and "trapped" simultaneously.)
A secret message using mom's code breaker.
Hl yss uyhl lavh ya yshlaayhl hvas’z
What is we all came from an alternate world?
Grandfather said to Ellie, "The seed is planted, it grows into a tree, the fruit ripens, falls onto the ground, and then it starts all over again." Grandfather's message to Ellie.
What is:
Following the cycle of life is important. It would be a terrible mistake if he used T-Melvius to change the nature of life?
Marty worries about Shiloh dying from the hands of abusive Judd Trevors, and yet his attempt to protect Shiloh lands the dog in the hospital from the attack of the German Shepherd. The literary element used here.
What is irony?