Vocabulary
This is the gut feeling you get when you know is going to happen.
What is intuition?
This person says his dad wants to kill him.
Who is Shawn?
Shawn likes this part of his dad's poem?
What is the beginning part because it was happy and positive?
What are his seizures?
This character is 14 years old and trapped in his own body.
Who is Shawn McDaniels?
This term means to feel very strongly about, emotional feeling about something or someone.
What is compassionate?
The reason Shawn thinks his dad wants to kill him.
What is to end his pain?
This is a term people use to refer to a person in Shawn's condition.
What is a veg (human vegetable)?
This is something that Shawn does at the beginning of his seizures that irritates his brother and father.
What is laughing?
This character comforted the dying dog on the side of the road.
Who is Cindy (sister)?
This is a sudden attack of the brain and nervous system and is very severe.
What is a gran mal seizure?
Shawn's father is very famous for doing this?
What is writing a Pulitzer Prize winning poem about Shawn?
The reason Shawn is not happy about going to his dad's reading of his poem.
What is he is mad that he is dressed up like a Bing Bong Puppet Boy?
The medication that Shawn takes helps this.
What are the muscles to relax?
This character is going to kill Shawn.
Who is the dad?
Having very strong feelings and desire about something or someone.
What is compassionate?
Shawn has no control over his muscles in his body, nor can he speak or communicate with people. Shawn was born with this condition.
What is C.P., cerebral palsy?
The chapter starts with this about Shawn.
What is the poem his dad wrote for the Pulitzer Prize?
This is embarrassing for Shawn to admit, and it sounds crazy, but he says that this leaves his body.
What is his spirit?
This character is telling the story from their own point of view.
Who is Shawn?
This term is used for unknown person.
What is anonymous?
This incident with the crows and Shawn's dad made Shawn think this.
What is his dad thinks that Shawn would be better off dead?
Shawn says the he "loves" these things.
What are his seizures?
The top reason that Shawn loves this seizures.
What is he feels free?
This character gets impatient and angry with Shawn.
Who is Paul, his brother?