Montana+Group+2

DATE: GROUP #:2 MEMBERS:Jason, Nick, Dylan
 * Book Group Template**

For your reading of //Montana 1948//, book groups will meet four times to discuss the novel and address each aspect listed below. Take notes on your wiki for each of your meetings and save it to your group’s Wiki, noting the date and members names at the top.

**This is the reading/book discussion schedule. Be sure you have completed each part prior to the book discussion day.**

1) Part One, Monday, March 21st 2) Part Two, Thursday, March 24th 3) Part Three, Monday, March 28th 4) Afterward/Epilogue, Wednesday, March 30th

**Directions: Write your notes for every category below on your group’s wiki space. Be sure to discuss in your groups:**

· Imagery/ Symbolism

· Character Behavior or Psychology: For Part one you **must** focus on characterization of the main characters listed below. **For each character, discuss all three modes of characterization:** You must use textual evidence for each of these three elements of characterization
 * 1. What the character says **
 * 2. What the character does **
 * 3. What others/narrator says about the character **

__Part 1__ Tells his wife that he doesn't believe his brother is as bad as other people say he is. How he acts is he acts like everything is ok and his brother didn't for anything. Neighbors, family, and many people in the Indian community are starting to think that something might be up with Uncle Frank.
 * Narrator’s Father **

Tells her husband that s ﻿ he doesn't believe Frank for examining David. Doesn't leave Marie with him cause she understands how worried she is. David realizes his mothers anxiousness, then he also becomes worried.
 * Narrator’s mother (Gail) **

__ Part 2 __ Narrator’s Father Starts off by saying that his father was beginning to investigate what happened between Marie and her brother. He wants to take the family on a trip to Yellowstone National Park. David tells his father what he saw, he notices his father's injured knee. We learn that David loves to go to the bowling ally with his dad.

Mother delivers a short soliloquy on the geography of Montana, and the geography of her youth. David interprets this as her way of saying "she wanted a few moents of purity. Mother didn't want to go to dinner with Uncle frank and Father got mad because he thought she was just blowing his family off.
 * Narrator’s mother (Gail) **

Marie and Ronnie Tall Bear Uncle Frank (and Aunt Gloria) Grandfather

· Interesting Passages (at least two passages, cited in proper MLA format)

· Questions/ Predictions you have:

· Connections to modern life or your personal life

introduction The reason for all the problems in the family is the father Mr. Wes Hayden is a sheriff and he has to follow the law. He causes all the trouble through out the family because of what the brother does. He forces the family apart causing pain in all of his family members including himself. As a sheriff in Mercy County he has to uphold the law of the land. When his brother breaks the law he tears his family apart.

Section 1


 * The reason for the family to have problems was because Mr. Hayden, he felt like it was necessary to listen to the law because he is the sheriff, even if it is family that he arrested.


 * " David, I believe that in this world people must pay for their crimes. It doesn't matter who you are or who you relations are; if you do wrong, you pay. I believe that. I have to" (156).


 * "This isn't about family, this is a legal matter" (116).


 * These are quotes that represent what were are trying to say that Wes Hayden is the reason for the problem in the family because he arrest his brother, which we are trying to say in the quotes we have

It’s hard to do what’s right sometimes.

- Mr. Hayden knew that what his family member did and was horrible and he has to arrest him.

Family comes first

- Mr. Hayden loves Frank but knowing what Frank did there is no way he can just let him off the hook for it. So when he took action it pulled the family down also.

Overpower

He thinks that since his is the sheriff he can do anything he wants. So after he gets frank in trouble he brought everyone down with him. He took his job in front of his family. “ It would never have occurred to my father to refuse.” (page 21) It says how he would never refuse a job regardless of anything.

Section 2

Grandfather


 * The Grandfather feels the reason for all the problems in the family is his Wes


 * “Bring him out here, now right god now.” (Watson 115)


 * Wesley, Get you’re a** in gear and get your brother out here right now” (Watson 115)


 * The reason that these quotes are good is because the grand father is defending the one son and not the other during this situation, he is cursing and very upset at Wes about this whole thing