I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Week of 4/9
** Draw 4 objects that represent your reading. Write a sentence for each, telling what each item says about what you’ve been reading.
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 I drew this unicorn to represent the first chapter in this book. In the first chapter, the author talks about how she got a pony, horse, Pegasus, etc, toy from each of her boyfriends. She kept her toy collection under her sink until she finally couldn't live with them under there anymore. She stuffed them all in a garbage bag and left them on the subway. Sloane imagined a woman seeing a sketchy bag on the subway and becoming horrified at the idea that it's most likely a bomb on the train.

When Sloane was a kid, she would often say "Skyblankeyspeechkim". Yes. All one word. She explained that each of the words actually meant something to her, and that's why the whole mess of words became something she said frequently as a child. Sky, short for Skyler, was her beloved childhood cat. Kim was her imaginary friend, blankey was her favorite blanket. Speech, didn't really mean 'speech'. It symbolized the end of the day when she would line up all her toys and talk to them about her day. In my drawing, I drew all these things the way I imagined a kid might draw them. All in different colors, all next to each other, and the weird in-the-corner-and-triangle-sun. I drew "Speech" as a sun because she would tell her toys about her day, so that seemed to fit.

I drew a thermometer that reads 2057 degrees because of the last chapter in the book when she has a health/death scare. I chose this chapter because she talked about how, when she thought she was going to actually die, she did absolutely nothing. When  she found out she was going to be OK, she was relieved, but she was also disappointed in herself. The whole week, she did nothing exciting even though she was positive death was near. I chose to draw that thermometer because she mentioned how she once faked a fever as a child. She put the thermometer in the microwave and gave it to her mother in hopes of staying home from school. Sadly, the temperature was 2057, and she had to stay home.

As you can probably already tell, this final picture is of 9/11. Sloane talks about how the twin towers were both attacked when she was quitting her job as an apprentice to a fashion magazine writer. Near the end of the chapter, the towers are hit and everyone at the office watches it happen on TV. Since 9/11 is a significant date in history and I also really enjoyed this chapter, I decided to draw the TV the office workers were watching.