Prompt: Describe what was either believable or unbelievable about your reading.
Defend your opinion.
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"I see Dad first. Even from several feet away, I can make out the protrusion of the pipe in his jacket pocket. "Dad," I call, but as I walk toward him, the pavement grows slick and there are gray chunks of what looks like cauliflower. I know what I'm seeing right away but it somehow does not immdiently connect back to my father. What springs into my mind are those news reports about tornadoes or fires, how they'll ravage one house but leave the one next door intact. Pieces of my father's brain are on the asphalt. But his pipe is in his left breast pocket." This is what shocks me the most because Mia's dad's brains are on the sidewalk! According to Mia she knows what she is seeing but it can't connect back to her dad. The other thing is while his brains are on the floor his pipe did not eject itself from the pocket, which I thought was weird too.
The next thing I find shocking about the book was when Mia finds her Mom on the sidewalk which is not as gruesome as finding her Dad, but is pretty much cold. "There's almost no blood on her, but her lips are already blue and the whites of her eyes are completely red, like a ghoul from a low-budget monster movie. She seems totally unreal. And it is the sight of her looking like some preposterous zombie that sends a hummingbird of panic ricocheting through me." I find this shocking that there was no blood from any part of her mom's body on the sidewalk. I also find shocking, most of you might have not noticed, in fact I didn't notice until I read it a couple of times. Although in the last sentence "And it is the sight of her looking like some preposterous zombie that sends a hummingbird of panic ricocheting through me." The hummingbird in panic ricocheted through Mia.
Now you might say that simple things blow my mind, well you may be correct but if you read this sentence "you wouldn't expect the radio to work afterward. But it does," this simple sentence shocks me because the radio is still working when the car is eviscerated! Mia says later on in the book that it was quiet except Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3 playing still. That shocks me because the car was just in a terrible car crash which Mia describes as a metal skeleton without seats or passengers,
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