chapter 11- 18( pg. 58-107) 2/10/09

Summary-----------
Sal discovered that any time someone would touch her, she would flinch. She suspects it's from not being the huggy family they used to be and it made her feel lonesome.
She adores her grandparents and they told her about their marriage bed, When they married, they had a bed that all of her grandfather's siblings had been born in that bed and all of their children had been born in that bed... He wants to die in that bed and feels that nothing or anyone knows more about him than that bed.
On pg. 60 there is another message on the Winterbottom's steps that said Everyone has his own agenda. They all begin to freak out and wonder where these messages are coming from... No one @ the door; no evidence of who sent them. Is it a prank? and who would do this?
She speaks more now of her teacher Mr. Birkway and his passion for English.. The journals they had to write that he read and many other weird elements of himself.
Her grandmother gets bitten by a water moccasin and a boy that was there sucked the venom out of her leg and she had to go to the hospital and was released the next morning.
When Sal was little, she remembers a tree that had a bird in it, but after she stared @ it for so long, it sounded like the tree itself was singing.
Another message was left on the door step... In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter? But Sal feels that after she read this.. . if you lost your mother, it would matter.
Response/reflection----------
These messages are very erie and no one knows who is sending them... Why do they do this and what is the reason for it... Is it a message for Sal to do something or is it saying that someone is in trouble? (Everyone has his own agenda.....In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter? )
Sal feels very alone. She misses her family being whole and wishes that as Phoebe's family is, her family could be too. She flinches... How long has it been since she has been given a hug? Why did things change so drastically? Is she really this alone?
The marraige bed was an important thing to her grandfather. He has mentioned it many times so far, and maybe he will die in it in this story. That would have been his wish, but they don't desire to bed any other bed either. Very important in their culture to stick to their grounds.
Sal's grandma was bitten by a snake and the boy sucked out the venom... He met Sal @ the hospital and felt the need to be there until he knew that her grandmother was well.