Found- Reading Skills

       While I have been reading the book Found, there have actually been some things that I could relate to and understand better, which help me make predictions. The main point so far in the book is how Jonah and Chip are both adopted, and then how they keep getting mysterious letters that say "You are one of the missing". Receiving these letters gets both of them worried, and they do not know what may come next. Knowing these things helps me make predictions.

      Later on in the text, I think Jonah and Chip will have to go to some private meeting place to talk to people who know things about each of them. I make this prediction because Jonah went to a meeting with some man named James Reardon, who supposedly had some information about Jonah but was unwilling to give them the big details. It can lead you to think that Mr. Reardon will probably want to meet up with Jonas at a later point because he didn't give them the important parts of Jonah's questions.

       "Not always," Mr. Reardon said. "Many times we have strong reasons to keep something like this secret. And I can't tell you the reasons without giving away the secrets. Quite a quandry, isn't it?" (Peterson Haddix, 85)

       Mr. Reardon says he doesn't want to give away secrets now, which could mean he gives them away later in the book.

Some things that I wonder are why is Jonah so honest about being adopted, while Chip gets all worrried when people mention it to him? Also, why can't Mr. Reardon even tell them where Jonah was born? I think he should have the right to know where he is from. Finally, why would Mr. Reardon get all snotty with them when all they wanted to know was where Jonah was from and some of his background?

        A text-text connection I can make is to a magazine article I read about adoption. It really was an interesting read because it talked about how some kids react differently to being adopted than others. This is just like Jonah and Chip because Jonah isn't embarrassed to be adopted and tells everyone, but Chip didn't even know he was adopted and got sad when his parents told him.

      A text-self connection I can make is that I have an adopted cousin who is from China. Now she is seven, but she also has a lot of questions about her origins just like Jonah. She sometimes asks who her birth parents were, and why she isn't with them anymore. This is actually really sad to think about, but her family conforts her. Jonah's family does this too and doesn't exclude him from anything.

      A text-world connection that I think of is how people that find out they are from another country want to go back to that place. These peole find out about their origin, and want to go back to where they made their start and see what it's like there. Jonah wants to find out about where he was born and thinks that it would be cool to see his surroundings from when he was born. This adoption story is just like people going back to their home town to see what it is like.
      
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