Illustration - Vivian

This is a picture of a tentacle mouth monster. I drew this picture because Jacob has been having nightmares of this monster who he thinks killed his grandfather. He was so convinced that it would come back for him. This lead his to think that this monster was following him everywhere he went. He decided to never leave the house. In the book the cop introduced Jacob to a sketch artist he then explain how that monster looked so I tried to draw the tentacle monster. The way Jacob describe the monster looks like a man with tentacle in his mouth hence the name tentacle mouth. Do you think the tentacle mouth monster killed Jacobs grandfather? Or do you think its something else or someone else?
       

Mood maven-Michelle

Mood maven -Michelle

1.  "Because we weren't like other people. We are peculiar.”

      The sentence made the mood intriguing. You want to know more about how they are different
      from other people. Jacob was not sure if he can believe his grandfather.

 2. "But why did the monsters want to hurt you?”

      The mood in this sentence is that you can tell that there is curiosity and
      that Jacob is concern about his grandfather. Makes you worried. Makes
      you interested in what will happened.


 3. "Dylan rolled his eyes but did as he was told.”

    The author wants us to see that Dylan is annoyed and mad. His tired of
    being told what to do.
                                                                                                                           

 4. "I fished the emergency money dad given me.”

     The way the author used the word choice by saying ‘fished’
     instead of ‘taken’ is that because he was sneaky about it or to
     give the money and leave as fast as he can.


 5.  "I got in Dylan’s face and said “are you going to show me the
       house or not.”

      In the sentence when the author wrote “ I got in Dylan’s face” you can tell that he was mad,
      angry, and annoyed with Dylan.

Question Creator -Gina McMonagle

1.Why is Jacob so distant from the people who want to help him?



I would like to know why he is so against help, I understand that no one believes him but at this point he doesn’t believe himself either. He refuses to leave the house, but wants to travel to a far away island all by himself. If he talked to his family there might be someone who knows a little about what his grandfather was talking about. We see evidence of this on his birthday when his aunt gives him the book from his grandfather.





2.Is Jacob going to find anyone at the house on the island?



When Jacob arrives there appears to be no sign of footprints in the muddy soil, if it is an orphanage then there should probably be a lot of people making noise but it appears to be quiet and abandoned. If this is not the place Jacob is looking for then where will there plot go? Is he just going to go back home and be afraid forever?





3.If he does find someone living there will he stay?



Jacobs parents are very overprotective in the fact that letting him stay in a strange place with people they never met wouldn’t be an option. If it is where he wants to be how would he explain it to his parents? If he told his parents it’s a place for different kids they would not believe him, how would he go to school if he was living there would he leave for university? If Jacobs does stay these are questions that need to be answered.





4.Does Jacob want to be there?



From the book we learn that Jacobs is scared and tentative about going into the house, which brings up the question does he really want to be there, or is he just going so he can get closure on what happened to his grandpa. Aside from the fact that Jacob is haunted by his grandfathers death, he has an alright life back home, his family cares about him and they are wealthy. Why would anyone want to give up all that for a strange dirty abandoned place where he knows nothing and no one.





5.Will Jacobs father come look for him?



Jacob comes from an overprotective family, so if he stays at the home then his father will get worried about his where about. His parents wouldn’t just forget that they have a son, they would go looking for him and try to find him. Everyone says that if you go up there you probably won’t come back, knowing Jacob went up there would they assume that Jacob is dead?