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Theme I think the theme of this book is you can’t run away from your problems, they will only get bigger and worse.

Quote 1 :“The….Riverwood? The… Oh God! The Riverwood Clinic? Holy….no,no,it can’t… I wouldn’t I couldn’t. The Riverwood! Kelly sh-h-h-h…hang on,sh-h-h-h… I’ll just be sh-h-h-h.”  I put this quote with pictures of people with question marks above them to show that Dani had no clue what was going on and how she got there, the man with the map.  It shows that you might not know were you are but you can find a way.

Quote 2:  “O-o-o-o number two Pooh Bah was there with number one Pooh Bah?” I put this quote with a face of shock and envy because I think

Scratch envied Dani for getting so much attention from Dr. Thurber in such a short period of time. Scratch being a long time inhabitant of the asylum was bordering on jealousy.

Personal statement: “ One of her best friends instantly became her enemy, in the race to getting out.”    

Quote 3: Dr.Thurber: “We’ll do even better next time.”

Dani: “Dr.Thruber?”

Dr.Thurber: “Yes Dani?”

Dani: “Thanks”

I think this was a very important session in Dani’s healing because it symbolized that she started to get an idea on how to speed up getting out of the asylum and speed her healing. I put a light bulb on that slide to show that’s where she really opened up and went “Oh” I  get how to get out of here.

Personal statement: “When the light bulb turns on, so does the whole hope.”

Quote 4: Dani: Was it him? She sidled up close to the windowpane, framing her eyes against the sun. That stride, shoulders razor-sharp and straight. That stride, that Master of the Universe stride. She could feel the cashmere kiss of him suit from five floors up. “Daddy wait”. I thought that this was a very important because it gave her a sense of pride that she was safe away from her father but sad because she could not talk and forgive him. I put a half and half smiley face on it to show that she was happy but had mixed feelings of sadness.

Personal statement: “When he walks away you must realize that this might be the last time you see him.”

Quote 5: : “Dani, your mother says that you are good through and through. All the time. Nonstop, she talks about how pure you are. Are you hearing this? She said you are good.”

Dani: “She did?”

Dr.Thurber: “She did.”

Dani: “That’s good. Right?”

I put this in because I think this was a key moment to see if Dani had actually gotten better or was just faking it the entire time. I put a worried face on because of what Dr. Thurber said what her mom said, “she talks about how pure you are. Are you hearing this? She said you are good.”  I thought that this was sort of a test so see how Dani would react. The worried face is for the last sentence  that Dani said “That’s good. Right?” This told me that she was put off guard on this question. The worried face is what I think is what was on her face when she said this.

Quote 6: Dr.Thurber: “Try to entertain this for a moment. Your mother did break out of her prison. You saved Saraya The game is done. Your mother is Free!”

Dani: “But Mother was not Saraya. We had rules. We, Kelly and me, didn’t bring them into the Game in any way shape or form. You haven’t been paying attention!” This is where I think the worst of Dani came out. I put frustrated faces there to show that this is a very stressful moment for her. I think she was put back weeks because of thinking and focusing on ‘The Game” again, not her therapy.

Personal statement “Yelling is a sort of healing.” 

Quote 7:  Dani inhaled and adjusted her power, trying to shift it lightly. “Mother, we’ve never had a cup of coffee together.”

Dani’s mother: “Exactly,” said her mother.

) Dani inhaled and adjusted her power, trying to shift it lightly. “Mother, we’ve never had a cup of coffee together.”

Dani’s mother: “Exactly,” said her mother.

I think this is my best slide. I chose this quote and picture to go together because the box is random. You don’t know what is going to come out of this good, bad or anything. I think this is much like them going out to coffee together. You don’t know what will happen this is their first coffee together. There is no previous conversation to lead with so you don’t know if it will go good, bad or if anything will come out of it.

Personal statement “You don’t know what will come out of the random box.”

The Game
By: Teresa Toten
Summarizing Blog

Can I summarize this character in a nutshell?…. I don’t think you can really describe Dani in short and still get her full figure and mindset. Throughout the whole book except the start I did not think that Dani should have been put through all the care that she was made to go through. To me it looked like they were trying to keep here there as long as possible.

A central idea running through this book is…. The Riverwood center is an intimidating place. I think it is more ran like a prison that a help center. How they have very strict schedules is an intimidation factor to get all the kids to behave and have no problems in their big and little group discussion.

The book has this title because……. The book is called ‘The Game” because Dani and her little sister used to a game called “The Game” at home. The game was, in a nutshell, a imagination land that she took very seriously. The objective of the game was to save the goddess but they kept adding new challenges every time they would get close to keep the game going and to escape real life. Dani played the game so much that it started to affect her personal life inside the institution. Almost all of her therapy sessions were about the game and trying to end it.i think it is called the game because she is trapped between the world of her and Kelly’s game and the game of life.

The Game
By Teresa Toten
The author did something unexpected when…….. Dani was taken from her original holding cell that she was in at the start and but here in a bigger one with roommate , Scratch. The author doesn’t say how long Scratch had been in the river wood institution for troubled kids. Scratch comes off as the pro on how to get out of there the fastest you possibly can.

I had changed my mind when I realized…….. When Scratch said “O-o-o-o Number Two Pooh Bah was there with Number On Pooh Bah?’’ This told me that they thought Dani was a very special case. This also showed me that they thought Dani had been in more trauma than the author first told you about.

I changed my opinion when…….. Dani was in the office of Dr. Thurber and she was not talking. When she just sat there and he was talking to her. At the very end of her session she just said ‘’thank you’’ and walked away.