1)The term "flashback" means to look at the past and kind of re live it. The flashback occurs after the first paragraph when they start "searching" for the penny.
2)The major conflict in this story is to find the penny that was lost. The father and the young boy were the two that were involved the most in the conflict. They were trying to find the penny that the young boy had lost and that penny meant lots to him. It was resolved by them finding it at the end. The boy made a game with the penny. He was playing with it in the dirt and burried it and tried to find it as a treasure but he ended up loosing it.
Questions:
1) When the boy says he "struck" his father, he means he would have shocked him. I think he would have tried to tell his father what had happened, while trying not to make him mad. The father would not have beat him anyways.
2) He was keeping the penny as treasure so that they boy could eventually do something wiht it.
3)The dad loves him. He shows it by giving him the penny, than helping him find it and shining it and keeping it.
4)The dad of the young boy felt like he was out of place and awkward when ever he was with his son.
5)The father felt so profoundly because he was proud of his son for taking care of the penny he was givin and being so upset when he had lost it.
6)The penny symbolises the father and the boy.
7)The father was a caring but didn't really show it until the boy had lost his penny. He is the type to do things on his own with out telling people. He is a quiet man, there for the son is scared to tell him he lost the penny because he thinks his dad will beat him. He keeps the penny to show that he cares about the son and his future. He was keeping the penny so the boy had something to look back on when he gets a little older and remember his dad.
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