Characters
This character is a small dog. He is Ivan's best friend.
Who is Bob?
This is what happened to Ivan's mom and dad.
What is humans killed them?
Stella is a mountain.
What is metaphor?
Excrement thrown at visitors.
What is a me-ball?
They place a large box in the center of the ring. It's Ruby-sized. What can you infer about the purpose of the box?
It is to take Ruby to the zoo.
Stella does not want her to have the same life she did.
Who is Ruby?
This is where George gets a job at the end.
What is the zoo?
Humans chatter like chimps when they have nothing to say.
What is a simile?
Ivan's real name.
Mud
The inspection man hands Mack a paper. Mack covers his face. He goes to his office and slams the door. What can you infer about what was on the paper?
They taking the animals, closing the show
The artist that connects best with Ivan.
Who is Julia?
This is the promise that Ivan made.
What is to get Ruby out of the mall?
"The sign is fading, the colors bleeding, but I know what it says."
What is personification?
Ivan's sister that died because she could not let go of the past.
Tag
It would be easier to promise to stop eating, to stop breathing, to stop being a gorilla. What can you infer about Ivan's confidence in freeing Ruby?
He thinks that it is impossible.
He said, "Get my ladder"
Who is George?
This is why Ivan is never angry.
Angry gorillas have something to protect. He does not.
The back of the truck was a dark cave.
What is a metaphor?
Because he wants to forget because of his traumatic past.
Why does Ivan not remember his past?
When I'm settled Maya gives me a sweet drink that tastes of Mango and something bitter. My eyelids grow heavy. I want to see what happens next, but I'm sleepy, so sleepy. What can you infer about Ivan being so sleepy?
He was given a sedative.
The name of the show dog that Bob gets annoyed with.
Who is Snickers?
This is why Ivan enters the box.
Figurative language that helps the reader VISUALIZE
What is imagery?
The name of Ivan's girlfriend.
Who is Kinyani?
Once Stella saw a trainer hit a bull elephant with a claw- stick...When the claw- stick caught in the bull's flesh, he tossed the trainer into the air with his tusk.The man flew, Stella said, like an ugly bird. She never saw the bull again. What can you infer about the fate of the elephant bull?
He was killed.