Penny in the Dust questions

Penny is the Dust
1. Flashback is used in literature to refer to a time that has happened in the past. The flash back in “Penny in the Dust” started around the beginning after they began reminiscing and ended just before then end when you find out that the father has passed away and the funeral is starting.
2. The major conflict in this story is when Pete lost his penny in the dirt. The people in involved in the conflict were Pete, his father, his mother, and everyone else who was looking for Pete after he lost the penny. The conflict was resolved when Pete’s father found the penny.

Penny in the Dust questions
1. I think the meaning of him feeling like he “struck” his father was because he felt that he was being dishonest with his father.
2. I think that Pete’s father kept the penny because it was a memory of a father son moment.
3. His father shows love to him by helping him when he struggled to get on the cart, when his father franticly sheared for him, when he suggested looking for the penny and by give him the penny to him in the first place.
4. His father would feel awkward and conscious of trespass if he entered into Pete’s imaginative world because he is very serious. Pete would feel awkward if his father came into his imaginative world because Pete is very imaginative.
5. I think that Pete’s father was all teary because of the simplicity and anxiety of his son’s answer to why he lost the penny and also because Pete was imagining a better life for the family.
6. This story is symbolic because a penny is not worth all that much and that the penny really can’t make life better but with a little imagination life can be better.
7. The father was a very serious man. He worked all day long and never had to hurry. He never held his son, never laughed, and was kind of scary. He is nice man and cared for others in his own kind of way.