Chapter 1
Pg 9- Jess gets up early to run
• ‘hot as popping grease’
Metaphor/ simile
• mad as flies in a fruit jar
Pg 10- Jess leaves the house quietly so as not to wake the rest
Pg 11- He greets the cow and starts the run
Pg 12- Jess likes running because of the positive attention he gets
Pg 13- Jess is called in for breakfast
Pg 14- Jess’ sisters demand that he wash up, Jess asks Maybelle to fetch him a shirt
• Grits is a type of corn porridge and a food common in the Southern United States consisting of coarsely ground corn.
Pg 15- The spoilt sisters get away from doing the chores and get their mother to give them some money for shopping.
Pg 16- Jess realises that a U-haul is parked into Old Perkins’ place. People are moving into the neighborhood
Pg 17- Maybelle passes him his shirt

Chapter 2
Pg 18- Jess makes peanut-butter sandwiches for his sisters
Pg 19- Jess goes to his room to find some peace through drawing
Pg 20 – Jess doesn’t usually show others his drawings as they’re usually frowned upon. Only Ms Edmunds, whom he has a crush on, appreciates it.
Pg. 21- His mother thinks Ms Edmunds is a hippie
• Originally, hippies were part of a youth movement composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults, between the ages of 15 and 25 years old, who inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from the earlier Bohemians and the beatniks. Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs to expand one's consciousness, and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom, perhaps best epitomized by The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love (extracted from Wikipedia)
Pg 22- Jess finds that he and Ms Edmunds have a lot in common
Pg 23- Jess milks the cow. He feels lonely in his house of females
Pg 24- Jess is irritated when Maybelle intrudes on his privacy but feels bad for sounding curt. His dad returns and May Belle runs to greet him
Pg 25- Instead of being greeted by his father the next morning when he’s out running, he’s greeted by a new voice
Pg 26- His new neighbour, Leslie Burke, introduces herself and Jess returns the introduction briefly.