1. Give a brief explanation on the following based on the first chapter of your novel:
Protagonist (the main character): Grace and Sam
Setting – Time: Present
Setting – Place: Woods, School, and Grace's home
Internal Conflict: Grace wants to talk to Sam who is a wolf that watches her every day at the edge of the woods in her backyard. No matter how hard she tries to reach him, he would always melt into the undergrowth before she could cross the distance between them. Grace just waited until he was ready to talk to her. She knew that Sam waited too but she didn’t know what he was waiting for. It felt like she was the only one reaching out. Sam was always watching her, never any closer to her, but never any farther away, either.
External Conflict: Grace’s mom thought the wolves are peaceful creatures but after another attack happened Grace’s mom opinion about the wolves changed. Grace’s mom started to be terrified of the wolves now. When another attacked happened it refreshed Grace’s mom memory about Grace’s incident with the wolves that happened six years ago.
Protagonist (the main character): Grace and Sam
Setting – Time: Present
Setting – Place: Woods, School, and Grace's home
Internal Conflict: Grace wants to talk to Sam who is a wolf that watches her every day at the edge of the woods in her backyard. No matter how hard she tries to reach him, he would always melt into the undergrowth before she could cross the distance between them. Grace just waited until he was ready to talk to her. She knew that Sam waited too but she didn’t know what he was waiting for. It felt like she was the only one reaching out. Sam was always watching her, never any closer to her, but never any farther away, either.
External Conflict: Grace’s mom thought the wolves are peaceful creatures but after another attack happened Grace’s mom opinion about the wolves changed. Grace’s mom started to be terrified of the wolves now. When another attacked happened it refreshed Grace’s mom memory about Grace’s incident with the wolves that happened six years ago.
2. Find two quotations from the novel that include examples of imagery (descriptive language that appeals to one of the five senses).
“Their tongues melted my skin; their careless teeth ripped at my sleeves and snagged through my hair, pushed against my collarbone, the pulse at my neck.” – Page 1
“I could smell her blood, a warm, bright science in this dead, cold world” – Page 2
3. Copy 4 quotes (could be the narration or dialogue) from the novel that would help describe the protagonist to someone who has never read the book.
Sam
“I remember this: his yellow eyes.” – Page 2
“He was large enough to tear me from my swing, strong enough to knock me down and drag me into the woods. But the ferocity of his body wasn’t in his eyes. I remembered his gaze, every hue of yellow, and I couldn’t be afraid. “ – Page 6
Grace
“ I saw one of them sweep up her dark blond hair and twist it into a long ponytail.” – Page 8
“I watched the way the sunlight streamed through the windows, catching the individual flyaway hairs in her ponytail and turning each one into a shimmering gold strand.” – Page 10
4. Choose four interesting words from the first chapter and define them.
Recoiled: to draw back, start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
Ferocity: a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness
Imperceptibly: very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road
Furtive: taken, done, used, etc., by stealth; secret: a furtive glance
Insatiable: not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge
Diorama: a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background
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