The Subject: Betrayal
Integrate question number 1:
If Shay had not become pretty, how would the friendship between Shay and Tally have changed once Shay had found out that Tally betrayed her and the other Smokies, by telling Special Circumstances about the Smoke?
Integrate question number 2:
Why would the women not give Lucas a chance to explain what he was actually doing, and why he wasn't betraying her daughter's privacy?
The Subject: Confidence
Integrate question number 3:
How does Jamie Tait, in the book Lucas, lack confidence in both his personality and the way he acts around others?
The Subject: Empathy
Integrate question number 4:
How does Cait's empathy get shown or told by the author for her dad and for Lucas?
Integrate question number 5:
Why would the author let you know about the empathy that Tally had for her friend, Shay and the other pretties that had lesions on their brains, from during the surgery of becoming a pretty?
The Subject: Manipulation
Integrate question number 6:
How could the way that Lucas makes Cait feel and act when she's around him, be considered manipulation on his part, whether he knows he's doing it or not?
My Paragraph:
Lucas manipulates Cait in ways that he talks to and even
moves around her and he makes her feel and act differently than she normally
would around everyone else in a variety of different ways. For example, “I
waited until he was out of sight and then I moved toward Lucas. I didn’t think
about it. It just happened. It seemed the most natural thing in the world. But
when I reached him and went to hold him, an embarrassed look crossed his face and
he took a step back. ‘What’s the matter?’ I said. ‘Cait…’ ‘What?’ Without
saying anything, he looked me in the eye…I stepped back feeling a bit foolish.
‘Sorry.’ Lucas grinned, ‘Me, too.’ “(Brooks, Lucas 229). This shows that he manipulates her because he is making
her feel foolish by backing away from her when she went to kiss him, so instead
of saying ‘no’ or something else, the way he acted and moved away made her feel
foolish. Another way that he manipulates her is, “… ‘I know.’ ‘Jamie’s got some
rough friends.’ Lucas shrugged. ‘I think they might be planning to set you up.’
‘For what?’ ‘I’m not sure-something to do with a girl on the beach, I think.
Some kind of sex thing.’ ‘Sex thing?’ I felt embarrassed. ‘You know what I
mean.’ He held my gaze for a moment, then lowered his eyes and looked away
without saying anything.” (Brooks, Lucas
189). In this quotation, it shows that Lucas manipulates her because he again,
is making Cait feel embarrassed even though he most likely already knew what
she was talking about, because he was involved in the ‘some kind of sex thing.’
One last example of how Lucas manipulates Cait is, “…Cait…I feel his hand on my mouth. Cait…it’s me…I taste the
sweet rain on his skin. Cait…wake up…
I open my eyes…open myself… ‘Cait?’ ‘Lucas?’ ‘shh…’ the voice was real. The
fingertips on my lips were real. The face above me was real. It wasn’t a dream.
Lucas was standing beside my bed, leaning over me, his figure framed in the dim
light. I could feel the touch of his breath on my skin.” (Brooks, Lucas 303). This shows that he is
manipulating her feelings, because normally (if it had not been Lucas) when
Cait woke up, she would have been surprised or scared. She would not have been
as calm as she was. She is always indirectly saying how he makes her feel so
calm, which is him manipulating her feelings, for good reasons. The author
makes it seem as though Lucas did not intend on manipulating Cait. Maybe that’s
what the author wanted you to think all along, but there was a truth hidden in
the way that he had Lucas speak and act around Cait.
Works Cited
Brooks, Kevin. Lucas. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic,
2003. Print.
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