RECAP GAMEChs. 12-30

NAME THAT THEME

TotalitarianismConformityLonelinessRebellionFreedom

“Everybody ought to be safe. And nobody should have to use bribes just to walk down the street or go to a mall or take a ride in a car…” (Haddix 87)

TOTALITARIANISM

“I would die without someone to talk to.” (Haddix 86)

LONELINESS

“Luke felt pangs of guilt now. Perhaps someone was starving someplace because of him.” (Haddix 93)

CONFORMITY

“‘WE AREN’T FAKES! WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HIDE!’” (Haddix 97)

REBELLION

“No more hiding, no more pretending—just being free.” (Haddix 84)

FREEDOM/FREE WILL

“‘Hundreds of children are hidden, mistreated, starved, neglected, abused, even murdered—for no reason. Forcing children into the shadows can be counted as genocide.’”(Haddix 93)

TOTALITARIANISM

“Sean’s even got a brother, Pat, who’s a fourth child.” (Haddix 86)

REBELLION

“ ‘Don’t you ever feel like saying, ‘I can’t take this anymore’?’” she asked… “‘Don’t you ever want to just walk out into the sunshine and say, ‘Forget hiding! I don’t care!’?” (Haddix 98)

REBELLION OR FREEDOM

GUESS WHO? Breaks into the Sports family house

Has never had really good junk food before

Becomes Lee Grant

LUKE GARNER

GUESS WHO? Cannot grow plants indoors Forgets to turn the radio on at lunch

Has been “checking around, some, quietlike, to see if a third child could live a normal life.”

DAD- HARLAN GARNER

GUESS WHO? Praises her son’s bread making skills,

even though the bread isn’t that great. Sobs uncontrollably when she learns her

son must leave. Says, “Would it be all right if we gave

him a good-bye hug? We’ve gotten kind of fond of him…in the time he’s been here.”

MOTHER- EDNA GARNER

GUESS WHO? Pretends to be poisoned by his brother’s bread.

Becomes obsessed with basketball.

Looks serious, for the first time, when his brother leaves.

MARK GARNER

GUESS WHO? Holds Luke at gunpoint. Hides Luke in a closet while the population police search his house.

Sabotages the Government by working for the Population Police.

Helps Luke become Lee Grant.

JEN’S DAD- GEORGE TALBOT

GUESS WHO? Luke is sure that he would never betray

him. Becomes obsessed with his girlfriend. Seems to have “outgrown” his brother.

MATTHEW GARNER

GUESS WHO? Has two brothers Organizes a rally for third children’s freedom

Is shot and killed by Population Police

Says, “No, just among the hidden. Not the same thing [as being alive] at all!!!”

JEN TALBOT

QUESTIONS

Tell how Luke plans to get from his house to

the Sports family house.

QUESTIONS

Why do you think it took so long for Luke

to get up the courage to go across the yard to the Sports family’s

house?

QUESTIONS

Why was Jen so scared when Luke

mentioned the Population Police?

QUESTIONS

What name does Jen use for third children?

QUESTIONS

Name one similarity and one difference between Luke and

Jen’s lives as shadow children.

QUESTIONS

How did Luke feel after he read the

books about population?

QUESTIONS

Why do you think the Government doesn’t

want Dad to experiment with

hydroponics?

QUESTIONS

Why do the Barons have pets and junk

food while no one else can?

QUESTIONS

Why does Luke not want to go to the

rally?

QUESTIONS

Why did Jen come over to Luke’s house in the middle of the

night?

QUESTIONS

Why did the government shoot all the Shadow Children

at the Rally?

QUESTIONS

There is no evidence of the rally on the

radio. Why?

QUESTIONS

Why do you think Jen’s dad offered to

get Luke a fake I.D.?

QUESTIONS

Explain why no one knows the truth about

the population numbers or the food shortage any more.

QUESTIONS

What excuse was Jen’s dad trying to

give the Population Police for why he was

in the chat room?

QUESTIONS

Why does Luke decide to get a fake I.D.?

QUESTIONS

Why is Luke’s mother filling him with

childhood memories?

QUESTION!!

How did Luke feel as he drove away from

the only home he had ever known?

SUPER QUESTION!!

Luke’s new name is Lee Grant. If his name was given

based on two generals from the

Civil War, what could his name symbolize?