Wednesday, October 14, 2009

"Green Grass, Running Water"

In the first paragraph, retell the situation that Lionel finds himself in. Do you think his situation is funny?

In the second paragraph, relate to his situation, and explain a time when you found yourself in a similar situation.

In the third paragraph, reflect on the consequences of Lionel's actions, and explain whether or not you believe he got what he deserved.

15 comments:

  1. lionel wants to get his tonsels removed so he can miss school and get icecream and treated better from the teachers when he goes to school.
    i dont think its funny because maybe he didnt even need to get them removed so it was just a waste of time.

    I pretended to be sick so i didnt have to go to school when i was younger?
    kind of the same i guess.
    and i sat at home all day,
    but then i didnt get to go out and do anything after school when everyone was done at school, it was gay

    i think he got what he deserved because he just wanted to miss school and get all this other stuff just to get his tonsels removed.
    but he went to the wrong hospital and got scared and he thought he was going to get heart sugery so he ran away so he didnt have to,
    but he said he felt better afterwords so that he didnt have to get his tonsels removed.

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  2. The First Thing i am goig to write about is that the story has noting to do at all with the title.
    I also thought that Lionel was a lion and the docter that he went to was a frog. :)

    I do not think the situation was no funny but just dumb. I will now kinda retell the situation. His throat hurts and he goes to the doctors and thinks about Lois and her tonsils. She got tones of attaion at school and got to saty home for two weeks.

    They drove into Calgary for like about a 2 hour drive and went to the hostable. He somehow flew to Toronto and back witch is a good 3 hour flight one way and 3 hours back.

    I never found myself in any situation like that. Wow what a aquird situation.

    He did not get what he deserved because it was a bit to extream waht they did tim by axidint for just lieing about his toncils although he might not have lied you would never no.

    But look on the bright side he now has a ciminal record for running away from the hotable and calling someone in from a pay phone in hoatable cloths and barefeet.

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  3. lionel wanted his tonsels out because he wanted time of school and that he had an infection.
    but he ended up in the wrong hosiptal , that was for a heart surgery .
    Yes i found that very funny because he was lieing about hes tonsils being sore and he ended up in the wrong hospital for a heart surgery , So he learned not to lie about things the hard

    uh .. there was a time that i didnt want to come to school , actualy there has been many . I lied about being sick and my mom sent me to the doctors
    and the doctor said there was nothing wrong with me so my mom realized i was lieing ):

    I think he deserved what he got because his parents would have been paying alot of money for him to get his toncils removed , when he only wanted them to get out of school , so yea i do think he got what deserves .

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  4. well their post are to long for me so mine will be shorter.
    the story was funny and the kid was lieing but dont we all i lie all the time for so little crap but ya he should ofthought about what could happen if he was lieing.

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  5. The younge boy named Lionel wanted to get his toncils removed so that he could leave an get time off of school an that he had an infection,but in the end some how he ended up in the wrong hospital that was ment for heart surgery.
    I thought it was funny that he lied about getting his toncils removed an he ended up in a heart surgery hospital beause he whent though all that lieing an he ended up in a heart surgey hospital.
    I think he got what he diserved an he shouldnt of lied cause his parents whent though alot for him an they would of spend alot of money on him.
    PCEEE !

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  6. I think in the first paragraph it was funny.

    Will some thing like that happen to me to when i was taking my tooth off i though i won't be going to school but i had to my mom and dad said i had to go.

    i think he did deserved what he got.

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  7. yeah this book is really good.. i can kida relate to because my brother was flown from london hospital to sick kids hospital to have a heart transplant. so this is a good book.

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  8. Ugh.... No, I don't. I also don't feel like retelling it. But he is in a situation that is funny, because he simply fails... Sigh.

    One time, I tried to avoid school, too, by lying to my mom that I was sick, but she felt my head and thought it wasn't bad. I was angry. She was too smart for me.

    He.... Didn't. He didn't really get in trouble except for the transplant thing. Ugh. I apologize for my failage.

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  9. in this story a kid named lionel goes to school and finds out that her one friend is sick just had sergery and get special treatment. lionel thinks he should be aloud to have special treat ment just like his class mate. so he fakes sick and goes to the hospital and almost gets sergery on his heart by mistake. and thats when he relised that he should tell the truth.


    i have felt the same way because i can never stay home and when i do im not aloud to go outside after school with friends. my mom says im to sick for school and im to sick to hang out with friends. so his lesson is like mine.

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  10. sohail you think its all funny not just the first part thats a bad lie

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  11. The situation that lionel found himself in is he heard that a girl got her tosil taken out and got to miss some school days. So he told his mom that his tosil hurt so she took him to see dr gloomis, he suggested that he will do an operation in the summer but lionel didnt agree. He wanted it during school so he sent lionel on a plane to Torornto. The doctor wanted to do a heart operation on lionel he said no 'Im fine'. He was worried about being away from his mom that he ran out of the hospital . but the cop brought him back to hospital , later they found out that they were expecting thomas instead of lionel. I think that this wasnt funny because i felt bad for lionel because he was worried because he wasnt with his mom. A time that i was in a similar situation is when i was 3 yrs old i also got my tonsil taken out. The consequences that lionel got was he was away from his mom and he was worried and went to a different city just to find out that they werent expecting him they were expecting someone else. I think lionel deserved it because now he would think twice about what he doing and the consequences that he getting into.

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  12. 1)Lionel wanted to get his tonsils removed to miss school like some girl in his class did.
    And i thought it was funny because its a really stupid thing to do.

    2)I didnt really want to go to school because I thought my teacher was gay so I pretended to be sick and it worked.

    3)In the third paragraph Lionel went to the hospital in toronto to get his hart removed for a new hart but then they found out they had the wrong person and yes he does deserve that because he lied to skip school.

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  13. what happened whas that lionel wanted to get his toncelles out to skip school. so he went to the hospitl but they were not expecting him they were expeting some tall indian kid not a short white kid .. but when he was in the hospital they found out he had a heart problem. so they sent him home. 25 years later he forgot all about it.

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  14. What do you mean - you thought your teacher was gay? Why do you think it is ok to be critical of someone's sexual orientation? Is it any different than making racist comments?

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