chapter 5

•1. Larry is so mean probably because before he became a foster child he was a victim of bullying in one way or another. Now that he his bigger than the other children he enjoys feeling the power himself.
•2. David’s new found passion is riding his Murray bicycle.
•3. The incident with Larry was started when David was defending Chris. Larry meant that hell beat David up when he said clean your clock.
•4. To stick up for himself he did not let Larry talk to him like he was small. He countered Larry by asking him how he would like to be bullied by someone bigger.
•5. Chris’s parents had abandoned him as a small child.
•6. Chris has been in a dozen foster homes before moving in with the Catanze’s.
•7. It was Chris’s last year in foster care because he was soon turning 18 years old and would have to make it on his own.
•8. Larry probably wanted David to call him uncle to make it known that he is David’s superior and can boss him around. He did it to feel powerful.
•9. Lilian took David to a psychiatrist so that David could get help with the confusion he still has about his family and his past.
•10. I think the doctor was acting in the rather demanding way that he did so that he could study and analyze David’s reactions. David did not react wrong. There are no right and wrong ways to act when being helped by a psychiatrist.
•11. The doctor kept calling him Daniel. If I were David I would have reacted the same way, because he had repeatedly told the doctor his name was David with no avail.
•12. The sessions are somewhat intense and twisted. David recounts many horrible acts that his mother performed and makes them known to the doctor through screaming a physical reactions.
•13. Big Larry and David decide to ride by David’s old house. This is definitely a bad idea because in doing this David is risking everything. His mother could claim that the foster mother has no control over David and he could sadly be taken away.
•14. I think that David wanted to go see his old house because he was feeling as if his mother could not get him no matter what. He wanted to prove to himself that he could go on mother’s turf and survive.
•15. David got punished for biking passed his old house. His punishment was not similar to his old ones at all. He was simply grounded.
•16. Her serious talk with Rudy was about how she had been on the phone with David’s mother all day, and how David’s mother was ranting and raving about how David was terrorizing the streets.
•17. He was upset about his mother’s number because he felt she had changed it as a part of one of her sick games. He felt as though he did not have the privilege of her number.
•18. No, the dad never showed up for the 7 am meeting with his son, although David was sure that every car that drove by would be him.
•19. He wished that this time was going to be different, that his father was going to make it and they would have a great time.