Penny In The Dust

1. Flashback is when you think back to something that happened in the past. In the story the flashback is pretty much the whole story. It started after the first paragraph.

2. The dad and the little boy are involved in the conflict. The little boy got the penny from his dad. The boy cherrished the penny that his dad gave him. He always played a game with it, when he would bury the penny in the ground and than digging it up pretending it was tresure. But one time when he was playing that game he lost the penny in the dust. He was too scared to tell his dad that he lost the penny, so he hid. When his parents found him hiding, he told his parents what happened to the penny. So his dad said that they will go find the penny. To their luck, they found it in the dirt. But the dad did not give his son the penny back. This is because the dad kept the penny as treasure.

Questions:

1. I think this means that the dad was shocked that his son thought he would beat him.

2. The father doesn't return the penny to his son because he keeps it as a treasure.

3. His dad shows his love by giving his son the penny, than helping his son look for it after he lost it, tearing up when his son was talking about how he wanted to buy a vehicle to ride into town with and ride down the streets with his father, and another way he showed his love is by puttin his arm around his son for the first time in 7 years.

4. The father felt awkward and out of place when he's with his son. He also felt concious of trespassing. And the son's world was foolish and fragile.

5. It was how the son said that he was imagining that he bought his dad a mowin machine so he could get done work early every day so the father and him could go into town in the big vehicle he imagined he bought his father and everyone would watch them drive down the street. Both of them laughing, talking, and smiling.

6. The penny was symbolic in the story, because the father gave it to his son and it was treasure to them.

7. The father is a quiet guy, but he can be very caring. He truely loves his son, but sometimes doesn't know how to show it correctly. This could be because he isn't used to being around his son and bonding with him. This is a problem because than it'll be just awkward between them.