Dirk

DIRK

Vocab
1. Impasse: a road or way that has no outlet
2. Absurdly: the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.
3. Rangy: slender and long-limbed.
4. Brindled: gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.
5. Deftly: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.

Connections
1. My next door neighbor has 3 dogs and they come over to my house sometimes and run around in my back yard and if someone they don’t know comes over they will be protective.
2. My friend has a dog and it will always bark and act all tough when someone walks by the window.
3. My grandpa has a dog and it’s all rangy and brindled like dirk.
4. My friend has a dog that bit me because it thought I was going to hurt my friend or something.
5. My sister has a dog that is super protective when people it doesn’t know comes over

Questions
1. Why does Gary live in a small town?
2. Why did the gangs not have guns but they had knifes?
3. Why does Gary get paid so little but works so long?
4. What does Gary mean when he said, but I added to my income so that I could stay above water?
5. How old was Gary when all of this happened

Interesting/Important Sentences or Passages
1. Street kid, that tells what he’s like
2. Seven cents a lane , that tells how much he gets paid at his job
3. Dirk would try to remove some part of Happys body every time he saw him, Dirk was Gary’s bodyguard.
4. First time dirk had wagged his tail, the first time dirk was really happy.
5. Give the beast under the stairs half a burger, a distraction.