Kelly+C.

Her grandparents ask her to tell them a story, her grandmother wants one about her mother, and her grandfather wants one of her good stories. She said that it was an excesivly strange story. A good story. She decides to tell a story about Pheobe Winterbottom, because she is a new friend of Sal. She doesn't want to tell them what Pheobe had told her about Mrs. Cadaver, so she decides to tell them what Pheobe is like.
 * 2. Who does Sal decide to tell her grandparents a story about? Why did she choose to tell this story other than another story? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.**

**4. Explain why blackberries reminded Sal of her mother. Explain something that reminds you of another person.** Sal had gone to Pheobe's house for dinner. Mrs. Winterbottom was making blackberry pies. Sal couldn't help but remembering that her and her mother used to go out in the fields and pastures in Bybanks picking blackberries. She missed her mother because she had left Sal and her father and went to Idaho. Mrs. Winterbottom, couldn't help but notice the expression on Sal's Face when she saw the Blackberry pies sitting on the counter. She had asked Sal what was wrong, and if she didn't like blackberries. Sal did, But didn't want to admit it. Something that reminds me of another person is when I see farms, because my grandma used to live in one, and i would visit her there.

**3. If you were Mrs. Winterbottom, how would you have felt about the way in which your family treated you?** If I were to be Mrs. Winterbottom I would feel like nobody cared. I would have to keep secrets from my family and cry every night because I couldn't handle it. I think that her kids and her husband don't really help her when she is in need of it. If I were to be Mrs. Winterbottom, I would tell them that I don't appreciate the way they treat me as a mom. Prudence and Mrs. Winterbottom's husband don't pay any attention to her like Pheobe does. Hopefully they will realise how much they hurt her inside.


 * Feelings about the novel:** I think that when Phoebe's mom left them, Phoebe took most of her anger out on Sal and other people. When Phoebe slept over at Sal's for the weekend, she was very rude and unkindly towards Sal. When Sal finally cracks she says, " I suppose your mother made a big sacrifice when she left." I thought it was rude of Sal to say that, but it wasn't nice for Phoebe to take thinks out on her as well.