Change+of+Heart+by+Jodi+Picoult

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** ..................................................................................... O F ............................................................................... H E A R T    .. ** **...... ............................................................................ ** **B Y ...................................................................... J O D I P I C O U L T          ** Nicky Tintle, Nicky Costabile, Kristina Boele, and Jaryn Pitkowsky = __September 25__ = = =
 * Nicky Tintle (food)**
 * KRISTINA (CHARACTERS)**

In this story, there are many characters. there is June, Claire's mother. Claire, who his the daughter of June and Kurt. Claire needs a donnar heart in order to live. Maggie is also a character in the story, she is writing a story about shay's life. Shay is a man who is now in jail because he killed Kurt and Elizabeth. Kurt is a police man who helped June get through the tragedy of her husbands death, they eventually get married and have a daughter, Claire. Elizabeth is June's daughter with her first husband. there is also Micheal who his a preist in the story. And then there is Lucis, he is in the jail cell next to shays. Lucis killed his boyfriend because he caught him cheated in him. There are many characters in the story but they all relate somehow.

** Jaryn (QUESTIONS) ** 1. Pick a character from the story and name two things that relate to you.

2. What is the meaning of the story so far? -So far we know that Claire is in need of a new healthy heart. There is June her mother,Maggie who has been writing for Shay, Michael who is the Priest, Lucis who is in jail next to Shay who killed June's husband(Kurt) and daugheter (Elizabeth). 3. Why do you think Shay killed Kurt and Elizabeth? -We did not find out what Shay has against their family yet. 4. Why do you think Shay wants to give his heart to Claire once he is excuted? -I think Shay wants to give his heart to Slaire once he is excuted because he feels that its the right thing to do. Once he saw Claire on the Television in the jail cell, he realized he needed to pay Claire back in some way because he killed her father and sister. 5. Why do you think Lucis thinks Shay is like Jesus? -Shay cured the sores in Lucis' mouth and he brought the robin back to life. Also, Shay split one peace of bubble gum between seven, greedy men. Our meeting on Friday, September 25 went very well. Nicky Tintle brought in bagels then we all ate while discussing the book.If we had any confusions about the book, we all talked through it and helped each other. We first began to talk about all the different characters. There is Maggie,Michael, Shay, Claire,June and Kurt and Elizabeth who was murdered by Shay. We read one fifth of the book and now have a basic understanding of what is going on and what type of person each character is. Were all confused on what type of person Shay is. We think he wants to do good because of how he wants to give his heart away. He also cured Lucis' sours,brought the bird back to life, and somehow shared one piece of fum for everyone. Jaryn then took out her questions as we all worked together to answer them correctly. We discussed what is happening in the book so far and all of the different events that occurred. Shay killed June's husband and daughter and now June is left with her one daughter, Claire. We all talked about how terrible that is how Claire is her only daughter she has and is now in need of a new heart. Claire almost got a new heart, but the doctor said is wasn't healthy enough. Now, they are waiting for a healthy heart to save her. We all think that Shay may give his heart to Claire but were confused on why he would after what he did in the past. Overall this book club went very well helped us all get a better understanding on what we have read so far.
 * Nicky Costabile ( MEETING)**

=__** October 2 **__=

Nicky Tintle (vocabulary)
In the second portion that we had to read this week, the vocabulary in the story was easy to understand. There were little to none words that were difficult, or challenging. Jodi Picoult is a great author and her choice of words make the story easy to understand. The words are sophisticated, yet easy to understand.

**Nicky Costabile(Questions)** 1. What were Micheal's intentions when he went to visit Shay in jail? We think Micheal's intentions were to reconcile him if he was or wasn’t being executed.

2. Do you think Shay wants the attention of giving a heart or really wants to do good? We think he wants to actually do good now to cover up for his past.

3.Why do you think Claire somehow remembered Shay when she saw him on the tv, even though she wasn’t born and has never seen him? We all feel like Claire either had a feeling it was him or has seen him somehow because he is all of the place.

4.Explain Maggie’s relationship with her mother? Her mom wasn’t nice and couldn’t be happy of her success on tv because all she cared about was what she wore. It seems that her mom always wants more of her and what she does is never good enough.

5. How did Shay feel about Michael coming to talk to him? Shay felt like someone was there for him for once when Michael came to visit him.

Jaryn Pitkowsky (Meeting)
This weeks meeting went very well. As usual, somebody brought food and this week it was Kristina. We enjoyed Blue Ranch Doritos with Arizona ice tea. For the first 5 to 10 minutes we were aloud to talk and discuss the book so we had a blast doing that. Then it was time to get serious. We went through all of the questions, discussed and answered all of them and any confusions were worked out. If somebody did not understand one part, somebody else would help and catch up. Our main focus was to find out who Shay really is because he is sending mixed messages whether or not he wants to do good. We discussed how Michael is now starting to visit Shay in the jail cell pretty much everyday. Michael is trying to help Shay find his faith before giving his heart. There is a lot more to come and we are all very anxious to find out more.

__**October 9, 2009**__

** Nicky Costabile ( Mood/Tone) **
We have now learned that Maggie has a closer relationship to her dad. She went to him for advice when she didn't know if she should help Shay donate his heart or if she should prevent it. Maggie's dad is a rabbi who always gives advice so she went to him after fighting with her mom. Shay is now getting advice from Micheal the priest constantly when they meet every day. We learned something new about Shay's __mood__ is no mater what he doesn't want to live. We know this because when Maggie said to Shay that what if she helps him to be forgiven by June and not have to get sentenced to death that he would kill himself. We now know that Shay doesn't want to live no matter what. Michael is still trying to explain faith to Shay and what is in the Bible is true. Shay doesn't believe in anything and Micheal is trying to show him that faith is truly what is important in the Catholic Religion. These are all steps so that Shay can be find forgiveness with God if or if not sentenced to death.

** 1. Do you think the relationship between maggie and her mother is strong? **
- Not strong because her mother always wants her to do better no matter what.

** 2. Do you think the relation ship between Maggie and her father is strong. **
- It is stronger then her and her mom's relationship.

** 4. What was your reaction when you found out Shay was sexually abusing Elizabeth? **
- Shocked because it was something that we didn't expect.

** 5. How do you think Shay knew what Luicus' was tattooing on his chest? How do you think Shay got the same tattoo that Lucuis' finished on his chest, on Shay's hand? **
We don't know and are all very confused on what type of person Shay is now.

**Nicky Tintle (Group Meeting)**
Today, in our group discussion, we talked a lot about how Lucius and Shay both had the believe tattoo. When Lucius was finishing the tattoo on himself, Shay showed his hand to Lucius and he already had the tattoo on his hand. We wondered how the tattoo was already on his hand, and how he did it. When we found out Shay was abusing Elizabeth, we were all surprised.

= OCTOBER 16 =

= Nicky Costabile( Foods) = = = = = = = = = = Kristina Boele ( characters) = The themes of this part of the book, when claire's heart was having a problem, i could picture what was going on in my mind. and also when they were in the hospital and claire said no to the heart. When we found out Kurt was molesting Elizabeth, I could picture the horror on the peoples faces.

= = = = = Nicky Tintle( Questions) = 1. How do you think the story will end ? we think that the story will end by Claire getting a new donar heart not from shay.

2. Explain the main events that occurred in this part of the book. Claire finds out that her donor heart is from the man who killed her father and step sister.

3. What do you think will happen to Claire after the transplant ? i think she will be better, and will not think about that it is shays heart.

4. Do you think Claire will get any weird side-effects like the kids did in her moms research? No, i dont think Caire will get any weird side-effects like the kids her mom researched.

5. How do you think Claire's mommy feels about the whole idea of Claire getting the transplant from shay ? I dont think we can even compare ot be in that situations, we would feel like we are murduring someone to save someones ife.

**Jaryn Pitkowsky ( Group Meeting)** Our meeting today, October 16, was very interesting. Nicky Costabile brought in Chex Mix Arizona ice tea and kettle corn. Heathy right? i know haha. Okay so anyways, back to business. Kristina found out more about the characters. She found out that Claire did not want the heart because it was Shays. Also, Claire had to go to the hospital, and we think it really brought out how much June really cares about Claire.

= October 23, 2009 = = Food ( Nicky Tintle) =

= Nicky Costabile ( Responding to the Text) = We loved this book! If anyone likes constant cliffhangers we would advise them to read it. For example, when Shay Bourone copied a tattoo on himself of Lucius's tattoo we all wanted to know how this was possible. This book sends very good throughout it and we always wanted to know what would happen next. The main cliffhanger throughout the book was weather or not Claire would survive or who would end of giving Claire her heart to survive in the end. This is the type of book where is you read half of it you just need to finish it or it would bother you if you don't know the ending. We all over all enjoyed reading this and are glad we chose this. We would say the main theme of this book is obviously your heart. It shows you that when you do things it has to be truly from your heart and not for yourself. = = = = = = = Questions (Kristina Boele) =

Yes because it shows how much she really cares about Claire.
= Group Meeting (Jaryn Pitkowsky) = Our last group meeting on October 23rd was the most interesting we have had this whole time. We discussed everything that happened within the book and explained the overall characters. Everything came together when we found out what Kurt did to Elizabeth. The group was very sad when Lucius died because he was shays only good friend. Nicky brought bagels and arizona ice tea as always and it was very yummy. Our whole group has a good time doing the book clubs and we are looking forward to the upcoming clubs.