Finish reading "I Just Kept on Smiling" by Simon Burt. Make sure that you record the thoughts of your inner conversation on your post-it/sticky notes.
After you finish reading, choose one line (1-2 sentences) that you think is the most important line in the whole story. Then, after you have identified that line, explain why you think it is the most important. In your explanation, include details and examples from the text. Please write a minimum of 6 sentences.
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ReplyDeleteThe most important sentences are: I have a good smile it makes people thinks twice. Because it makes people think twice when they or choose say something. For example when he smiled and Dom Frances didn’t call him up to be talked to outside right away instead he did at the end of the class. When we came back from the chapel the first time Nicky carver says hi and wishes happy birthday and he smiles at Nicky then Nicky stops talking and looks away. When Anthony Forde tried it speak to him after they got beaten he smiled and Anthony changed his mind and looked away. At the end when Nicky carver takes the blame he smiles at him and Nicky looks away.
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The sentence that I believe is the most important in the text is on page 12, line 5:
ReplyDelete"I have a good smile. It makes people think twice"
There are three reasons that make me believe these sentences are very significant.First of all, because they show the character of the boy that means that he is sly and that he uses his smile to make people trust him while he is not reliable. Secondly, because the sentences show that he keeps a lot of secrets, that's why he prefers to stay alone according to the text. And finally because they show that people will never believe that he did something that doesn't appropriate in a student's behavior as happenned after when he admitted that he stole the exersice books but the teacher didn't believe him.
"I smiled at him. I have a good smile. It makes people think twice." I find these sentences intresting for various reasons first of all its foreshadowing of his scary smile. It also is a misterious when first read.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence that I think is the most important in the story is “I smiled at him. I have a good smile. It makes people think twice.
ReplyDeleteI mainly think this is the most important sentence in the whole story because it has to do with the title and the title should foreshadow something in the book but in an indirect way. The second reason is that it is one of the main expressions the character does in the whole story, probably because he thinks he has a good smile or because it is a way to make the other person feel insecure. The third reason that makes me think it is the most important sentence in the whole story because that smile is like a mask for the character it helps him hide what he thinks behind that smile it makes him look innocent and just a normal kid that is going to church, not some one that just stole some exercise books in the chapel.
"I smiled at him. I have a good smile. It makes people think twice." I think that in the entire story this was the most important frase.This because it explains the title of the story:"I Just Kept on Smiling". Also because the last frase, makes people think twince meaning that he may seem very friendly, when instead he had stolen the excercise books. So this makes the people that see him smile confiuse a liitle on him and his characteristics...
ReplyDeleteThe most important line in the whole story is line 18 page 19: Nicky Carver was standing on a table in the middle of the refectory, he was standing in attention and there was a big placard round his neck saying thief. I think this line is important because it raises questions like, why did the author have to describe him like that? Is it because he wants to show how harsh the school was? Or that an intelligent student with noble character can also be of bad character? For example, when he eventually owned up to stealing the books, did not believe him and asked him who put you to this. It was so because he had always been a good student. Also Dom Francis had to beat the whole class for the thief to own up. This explains that they also used strict rules and regulations for offenders.
ReplyDelete"The exercise books, I said. It was me. I took them".
ReplyDeleteWhy would you admit if you stole something? I mean for example, during Math you steal some money you see on the teacher's desk. He asks you if you took them.. would you admit? Of course no, because that would cost you an detention or even worse!
I don't really think he did this because he was scared of Anthony Forde, Timothy Pigott, or even Freddy Oake.
The phrase that most intrested me is : I have a good smile. And another one is: It makes people think twice. They intrests me because they make me think of his scary smile. It makes me also think that he is very shy and very close with people, that's why he always smile and that he is keeping an important secret. It is also important because it is mysterious but at the end the truth came out. The story is very intresting and at the begining it is very mysterious but at the end it came everything clear.
ReplyDeleteI haver a good smile and it makes people think twice. these sentences made me think why he smiles at people when they ask him anything. he probably likes to annoy people or just try to act cool.
ReplyDeleteGood work, everyone! Most people chose the line "I have a good smile. It makes people think twice." I was really interested in the responses that chose something different, though, too.
ReplyDeleteFor example, Mihnea wrote "The exercise books, I said. It was me. I took them." He was shocked by the narrator's confession! This line is also a part of the climax. Excellent!