Sydney.+Entry+1.+The+Normals

** Honors English 4B  ** ** Pages read: ** 1 to 30 ** Title: ** Evaluation and Interpretation ** Date: ** Thursday April, 29th Significant Quote (include page number): ** “He gets dressed. On goes the recently purchased disguise: acid-washed blue jeans; //Cats// T-shirt (feline eyes glowing from the nipple region, NOW AND FOREVER written on the back); I ♥NY baseball cap; cheap mirrored sunglasses. Billy inspects himself through streaks of rubbed-away steam. Not bad. He could be a Times Square tourist composing postcards in his head. An old familiar fantasy, that he’s a spy, bubbles up from the wellspring of memory when as a child he would sneak around his house and search for evidence, nothing specific, just random traces of something in the sleepless night, once planting a tape recorder under his parent’ bed so he could catch their whispers after goodnight,” (4). This quote is significant because it shows how creative Billy thinks. On numerous occasions such as this he describes how he would take on the role of another person, such as being a spy in this quote. Also the author uses a light-hearted tone when writing showing how Billy can be sarcastic and doesn’t tend to take things seriously. This might be evidence that shows that Billy seeks comfort in portraying himself as someone he’s not and being sarcastic as to not reveal his true identity and emotions. Is the human drug testing study really as clean cut as Mrs. Baker-Blau describes it? In the novel the person interviewing Billy for the drug testing study is a woman named Mrs. Baker-Blau. Her description of the study sounded very commercial, as if she was trying to persuade Billy into buying into a scam. Considering the study is on human drug testing it makes one think that there could be making a risky choice by choosing to be tested on. I can connect with the main character, Billy, in two ways. The first being, Billy can have a very sarcastic tone which I share with him. Both Billy and I share this sense of sarcastic humor in things. Also, it is clearly shown in this novel that Billy has a fascination with illnesses and even the human behavior which I also am fascinated it. Because of these characteristics I can connect more easily with the main character’s thoughts.
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