Cory returns to Zephyr 25 years after leaving it commenting that "Zephyr was my home, and it hurts to think it's changes so much" (McCammon 565). Why is it important to the novel as a whole that McCammon take us and Cory back? Try to use some of your favorite quotes from this chapter in you answer.
Look over the titles of "Winter's Cold Truth" remembering what each chapter was about. How do they connect to each other and to the section's title, "Winter's Cold Truth?"
Many things have happened to Cory at this point . Choose one or two events from "Burning Autumn" and explain how it has shaped Cory's character and you see it affecting the final section.
"Twighlight came upon us. at I climbed on Rocket, the other guys got on their bikes, and we left the ball field and our summer dreams. Our faces no were turned toward autumn... We pedaled on, four buddies with the wind at our backs and the roads leading to the future" (McCammon 270). Continuing to build on our understanding of the seasons as representing something more than changes in the weather, what does the language of this quote represent for Cory, his friends and his childhood? Consider everything we read in section two and remember to think about where we have been and where we are going.
"What word in the English language would speak of youth and hope and freedom and desire, of sweet wanderlust and burning blood? What word describes the brotherhood of buddies, and the feeling that as long as the music plays, you are part of that tough, rambling breed who will inherit the earth?" "Cool!" (McCammon 183).
Was it a song, a movie or maybe a television episode? What was it that changed the way you saw the world. Share one memory that changed your perspective on the world in the same way The Beach Boys "I Get Around" changed things for Cory. Your response should be at least 150 words. T.S. Eliot said that "April is the cruellest month" while Frost noted that "Spring is the mischief in me." Support both of these claims with events from section one of Boy's Life
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