Reading Log questions: Pages 1-60

     1. Who is Willa Lambert?  Describe her relationship with her parents.  Write about her “visions.”  Based upon the evidence that’s been presented in the novel, what’s the origin of these visions?

     Willa Lambert is a teenage girl who lived in friends wood and has a crush on one of the other characters names cully.  Willa has visions or hallucinations every so often where she see's monsters and many other dark visions. 

     2. Who is Dex?  Describe his relationship with his mother.  Describe his relationship with his sister.  Based upon the evidence that’s been presented in the novel, discuss Dex’s relationship with his friends, footballs player.

        Dex is another character from friends wood who is very shy and considered an introvert. Dex is very close to his mom, and is very popular in school because of his status as a football player. 

       3. Who is Hal?  What does he do for a living?  How would you describe his career?  Talk about Hal’s relationship with Darlene, with Cully

        Hal is Cully's father who used to be a football player ion friends wood but is now a real estate agent who cheated on his wife and was an alcoholic. His career is not going well and he is not able to sell a good amount of houses as a real estate agent. Darlene is the women who helped him back to sobriety.

 4. Who is Lee?  What significant tragedy happens in her life?  Discuss how this event affects her.  Thus far how is Lee perceived by community members?

      Lee is a wife to jack and a mother to jessie  who had just died of cancer, this event affects her metal state throughout the book. Her husband left her after the death of their daughter. she is perceived but the community as crazy because she is still on the land she used to live on investigating. 

     5.  Make the connections between Friendswood and one of the significant environmental calamities that’s occurring now: Standing Rock, Flint, Michigan, and East Chicago, Indiana.  Be sure to include when the event happened, why it happened, and how the environmental calamity effected the community. (If you aren’t familiar with these events, please research them.)

     Making a connection to an event that is happening in todays society would be the water crisis in flint Michigan  In flint they have been having a contamination of there drinking water, since 2014. This connects to friends wood because of all the chemical dumping that is happening int he town causing children and regular town citizens to have birth defects and high rates of cancer just like in flints water crisis today. 

     6.  Discuss the role of protection and the EPA.  Is this governmental agency fulfilling its role as it relates to the community members of Friendswood?

      EPA is the Environmental protection agency that the federal government created to protect human health and the environment  in the community of friends wood The EPA is not fulfilling its roles for the members of friends wood because of all the chemical dumping and harm that is causing to the citizens of friends wood.