Slam (tasks)

Checkpoints along the way

1. I think Sam hopes it could be "anything" going on with Alicia, anything but pregnancy.
2. Alicia says that "Because while the baby`s in there, it`s my body. When it comes out, it`s our baby." Alicia is saying that she`s the only one to make the choice if she wants the baby, but when it comes out Sam have to take care of the baby too, because then he has a responsibility of her choice in life.
3. Sam feels nervous and maybe dizzy and pale, because of his heart beating to heavy. I haven`t felt like this yet, I think.

 

Check points after reading the text

1. Sam is telling the story.
2. It`s told from a first-person point of view. The difference between a first-person and a third-person point of view are first-person is "me" and "I", but from a third-person point of view it`s a person out of the story looking in.
3. The main character in this novel is Sam.
4. Alicia wants to keep the baby.
5. Alicia insists that Sam is going to use the word "we" while he`s talking about Alicia and himself.
6. Alicia wants to tell the news to her parents right away, but Sam wants to wait.
7. They decide to wait to the next day at the evening.
8. Sam was most worried about telling his mother, because he knew that it would break her heart.
9. Sam was looking down his shirt while they were waiting for Alicia`s parents to come home, because was so nervous that he felt like there was a little man wanting to come out of his chest.