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Can someone please answer. I have a essay due tommorow!! ^^

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:22:36 PST

Can someone please answer. I have a essay due tommorow!! ^^

How are Brent's parents show the theme of kindness in this novel?...

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:29:29 PST

How are Brent's parents show the theme of kindness in this novel? Support your answer.

what does the characters in the book have in common with brent

Tue, 5 May 2009 05:36:30 PST

what does the characters in the book have in common with brent

In the novel, Whirligig, has anyone had good discussions about the...

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:33:31 PST

In the novel, Whirligig, has anyone had good discussions about the spirituality of this novel?

What Flaco wants more than anything is peace. He wants to be like the...

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 PST

What Flaco wants more than anything is peace. He wants to be like the shearwater, a bird whom he imagines "live(s) alone, far away from land...no other birds around...very peaceful". Flaco's whole life has been a struggle, with people fighting and arguing all the time. Born in the mountains of Puerto Rico, Flaco and his family moved to the city when his father had to sell their farm to a power company, but political unrest forced them to...

What did Flaco want most in the book Whirligig?

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:34:36 PST

What did Flaco want most in the book Whirligig?

The construction of this novel is especially interesting because the...

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:13:37 PST

The construction of this novel is especially interesting because the climax, which usually comes closer to the end of the book, actually occurs about a third of the way through, in Chapter 3, when Brent meets the mother of the girl he killed face-to-face. In this courtroom encounter, Mrs. Zamora gives him a bus pass and requests that he place a whirligig at each of the four corners of the country in memory of her daughter, and as a form of...

Brent Bishop, the main character, does not interact well with others at...

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:58:32 PST

Brent Bishop, the main character, does not interact well with others at the beginning of the story. His family has moved around a lot, and Brent, constantly trying to fit in with his peers, is so concerned with trying "to impress without being made fun of" that he can never just be himself (Chapter 1). His sensitivity to how others perceive him is so great that, after being humiliated at a party, he becomes suicidal, and causes the...

Brent causes a car accident which kills a girl. He agrees to the...

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:45:20 PST

Brent causes a car accident which kills a girl. He agrees to the suggestion made by the girl's mother as a repayment for the girl's life. The mother has asked that Brent travel to the four corners of the United States and build a whirligig which displays her daughter's face. A whirligig is a contraption that has moving parts which move with the wind--it may or may not be designed to act also as a sort of windchime.Brent changes...

A whirligig is something that has one or more pieces which spin around...

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:41:39 PST

A whirligig is something that has one or more pieces which spin around in the wind. In this story, the main character builds whirligigs to repay a mother whose child has died in a car accident.Mostly, Brent is the character who changes. He begins the book as a self-centered boy who is desperately trying to fit in by having the right clothes, car, music, and enough money to spend. After the car accident in which a girl dies, everything...

How does the main character of Paul Fleischman's novel,...

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:14:14 PST

How does the main character of Paul Fleischman's novel, "Whirligig," interact with other characters?

What changes do the main characters of Whirligig go through?

Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:41:31 PST

What changes do the main characters of Whirligig go through?

What is the climax and resolution of Paul Fleischman's book,...

Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:38:46 PST

What is the climax and resolution of Paul Fleischman's book, "Whirligig"?

On the last two pages of Chapter 4, the street sweeper, who is taking a...

Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:49:48 PST

On the last two pages of Chapter 4, the street sweeper, who is taking a drive by himself to find peace from his family situation, comes across a little marching band made of wood nailed to a restaurant on a pier. The marching band is actually a whirligig, made by Brent and placed in Florida (see Chapter 7, "The Apprentices"). The marching band leads the street sweeper to come to an understanding and...

The story takes place at various periods of time.The accident in which...

Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:30:11 PST

The story takes place at various periods of time.The accident in which Brent kills Lea takes place in May. Brent's hearings and meeting with Lea's mother take place in the following weeks, and Brent's journey to place the whirligigs at four corners of the nation begins in early July and ends three weeks later.Alexandra and Steph are inspired by the whirligig in Maine during Christmas break. The street sweeper reminisces about...

What is the time during the year in the story Whirligig?

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:17:46 PST

What is the time during the year in the story Whirligig?

What is the basic situtation of the story Whirligig?

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:31:02 PST

What is the basic situtation of the story Whirligig?

The book flashes forwards in a reverse chronology to stories within the...

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:05:51 PST

The book flashes forwards in a reverse chronology to stories within the story about how the whirligigs effects those who see them. Although i do not have the book in front of me, I'm sure that this is probably what is confusing you.

What is the significance in Ch. 4 of Whirligig? It makes no reference...

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:20:01 PST

What is the significance in Ch. 4 of Whirligig? It makes no reference to either building or seeing a whirligig, and I can't make the connection.