Discussion+Summary

March 25, 2011 we had our first group discussion. It was the best group chat we had so far. We had so many topics to talk about. We had a lot of difficulties with the book, but we figured it out by team work. We were like " Wow, I never knew that! Hahah we are stupid!" We talked about connections for around 30 minutes. Mostly our connections were connected to Jane. She was around our age and she thinks like a normal teenager does. One of the connections that we all agreed with is; when we are so curious we go all the way 'till we finish and we won't let anything ruin it. The connections were the best topics ever because we were talking about so many things that happened to our past life. Questions were so much fun, we had fights about the answers, and people were screaming! The questions that we had were, " Why did she do that, I thought she was?" We just go on and on, then finally we find out the answers by our great team mates. Words that we dont know? It was very hard for us to find words we dont know because we basically knew all of them, some people didn't know some words but overall we did. Our group members sometimes had the same words that we didn't know, but it was good because we discussed so much. We said, " Oh ya I knew that." Then we finally we figured it out.

Our second discussion was very interesting. It was better then the first discussion because it was more detailed and more adventurous. A question that led to big discussions were, " Has Reeve always been into her? Is she afraid that if she calls the number she will find out more than she wants to know." We thought that Reeve just liked Jane because she was younger and fresh, while in his grade there are girls who are very mean and kind of FAKE? Some people disagreed with some people and that was alright because eventually we will fined out and see ho is right or wrong. One of the topics we are suppose to talk about is passages that we liked and what felt like something that is good. One passage that we all liked was on page 56, She loved driving. The power of it! Even diluted from her mother and father's panic, power filled her body. We all chose that because it was very strong how she described how she loved driving with the power of it. You can almost feel how much power she had. What it made us think was, what happens if she can't get her license. She would feel terrible!

Our third disscussion was very interesting because we just got too the climax of the book. All the action was happening. WQe were talking about how would her parents feel now that they told Janie about Hannah. Some of our questions contained weather or not the parents would be more protective. All of us think that they would be more protective because they are afraid that Janie would become like Hannah. Also we were all shocked that her parents were her grandparents. Now Janie sees how they are old and she looks at her life differently. Even though they are her grandparents she realizes that they raised her so she says: Mother and daddy are all i have, and all i want. ** She is showing that she stills loves them no matter what. All of the passages that we chose had a lot of meaning to them because this chapter had a lot of thinking because it was the climax. Also our connections we were connecting with the confusion that Janie had. She was lost in her own world.
 * They are my mother and father, she thought. They raised me. They love me. I love them.

Our fourth discussion was all about Reeve and how they ran away together for a day and skipped school. The reason we were all involved in this conversation was because we were so interested in how much time and effort they took into find who Janie really was. This shows that Reeve cares for Janie and wants her to be happy. Reeve thinks that skipping school for Janie is important. The reason we know Reeve means a lot to Janie is because she chose to tell Reeve about her problems and let him help her instead of her best friend who she knows will stick with her. Why? This is because Janie has a lot of love for Reeve. All our paragraphs that we chose had to do with Reeve and her on the day that they ran away together. All the paragraphs were about happy times like Reeve's smile, The drive, and then coming home to 4 angry parents. Even though the parents were angry they were happy that they spent time together. The place when they explained coming home was really good because all the sentences related to going in or out: “I don’t want to go in at all” But there was no need to go in. Four angry, screaming parents came out instead. ** We all thought this paragraph was good. We also lliked the art when she explained his smile: This is showing who he is to her an how much emotions that have for each other. Our connections were about the curiosity that Janie has for New Jersey and all. She also gets to involved in her mission that Reeve gets a little bit annoyed and wants to get her mind off it.
 *  “I don’t want to in alone”
 * His wonderful joyful grin split his face and he turned back into Reeve, her trusty, rusty, next door neighbor, and he gr abed her waist and swung her around, then stood very still, kissing her. **

Our fifth discussion was orbiting around all of the oldness that Janie could start seeing in her family. She was noticing it more as we talked about a little in the last discussion. Janie was pointing out that she could see the lines in her dad's face as he yelled at her. We were wondering why getting yelled at was such an honor? To JAnie she liked feeling like a kid for a while. We also were wondering why she would risk everything and run away causing so much fear between her family. She would cause so much fear.. Her parents would think it would be Hannah all over. I think that as her maybe she has a possible explanation. Personally, I think that she is going to far with the milk carton thing. I know she wants to figure it out but sh eis letting go of what is important: Her family and friends.