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Monday, December 12, 2011

Who do we find out later was really the one that told Will he had a nice butt?
It was really Lacey that told Will he had a nice butt, not Beth.

What did Tristan say about why Ivy was always getting lost in Will’s eyes?
Tristan thought that Ivy always gets lost in Will’s eyes because it is really Tristan’s eyes that she is looking at.

How did Tristan react to Ivy’s piano playing when she played at the recital?
It made Tristan sad, because that was the last song she played him before he died, and he wanted to yell at everyone listening that she was really playing that song for him.

After the recital, what does Lacey help Tristan come to a conclusion about?
Tristan and Lacey come to conclude that it wasn’t Will or Tristan that Ivy had her eyes on, but it was Gregory.

What was the first time that Philip mentioned Tristan at all, since he had died?
The first time that Philip mentioned Tristan was when they were at his grave for the first time.

How did it help Ivy that Philip was finally starting to talk about Tristan?
It helped Ivy because it gave her hope that if he is being accepting and trying to move on, then maybe she can do so as well.

What did Philip say about Tristan coming back?
Philip told Ivy that Tristan was his angel, and that he was at the art show with them today, but that maybe he would be back tonight so he could be with them again.

What did Ivy do after she got home from the graveyard?
Ivy went and practiced the piano with her cat, and fell asleep next to the piano, with the door wide opened.

What did Ivy wake up to after she had fallen asleep by the piano/
Ivy woke up to the door creaking opened, and feeling a man behind her, and screaming.

Who did Ivy find out that the man behind her was?
The man behind her was Gregory, coming to check up on her.

What did Ivy and Gregory do that night?
Ivy and Gregory laid on the couch drinking tea and eating cookies, and then Ivy rubbed Gregory’s back.

HOMEWORK!!!

Explain why Gregory and Ivy feel such a special connection?

Gregory and Ivy feel such a special connection becuase they both go through a very similar life-changing event. It started with Gregory losing his mother when she commited suicide, and then two days later when the love of Ivy's life, Tristan, was killed in a car accident late one night. Ivy is the only one that can even begin to understand what Gregory is going through, and Gregory is the only one who can begin to understand what Ivy is going through. When Ivy is trying to explain their relationship, she says "Gregory had been there for me, looking out for me, since the night of the accident...perpahs it was because it was his own loss, his mother's suicide, that made him so understanding" (p 39). There were many examples of when Ivy really felt like Gregory was there for her, understood just what she needed, and could see right to her soul and what it yearned for. A specific example is when she came home late one night, after she had a very hard day, and just wanted sleep. She went to go to bed and on the night stand next to her was a picture of her and Tristan that Tristan had given her, with twelve violet roses and "Beside these roses was a note writen from Gregory saying that he knew that these four weeks had been the hardest weeks of her life, but that he would be there for her through the end"(p 58). This was a day that Ivy felt like giving up, and like there was no hope. She couldn't stop crying this day, and when she came home and saw these roses and note, she fell to the floor in tears of gratitude. Gregory knew how Ivy was feeling, and because of his related experiences, he was able to feel empathy for Ivy. Ivy also said that while the rest of the world only saw the surface of her and her feelings, Gregory saw through them all. Ivy said that "While everyone else was encouraging me to remember the night of the accident and to talk about it-becuase they said it would help me heal-Gregory would let me take my time, let me find my own way of healing. There was no better explanations other than he was trying to help me heal, in a way that he wished the world would let him heal-on our own time" (p 124). Gregory and Ivy had both been through the same tramatic event and at the same time, so it was fate for them to connect in a way that they could not connect with anyone else.

Although he hasn't been told by the angel in charge of earthly missions, Tristan believes he already has his mission figured out. What does Tristan feel is his mission on earth as an angel, and why he is persuing it so quickly?

Tristan has died in a car accident a month ago, but after the accident he was sent back to the earth just moments later to complete a “mission”. Tristan has not been told yet what his duty and reason was for coming back to earth, but no matter what any other of the angels tell him, Tristan believes his mission is to save Ivy’s life, which he so earnest believes is in danger. The first time Tristan realizes that the car accident was really no accident at all, Tristan says “The pedal. The break. It shouldn’t have given out like that. What if it wasn’t an accident? What if it only looked like one? Those breaks were in perfect shape. I am positive somebody messed with them. You have to help me reach Ivy” (p 93). Tristan thinks he has figured out his mission, and he is frantically trying to communicate with Ivy, to help her stay away from danger. Later in the story, when Tristan still hasn’t been able to warn Ivy her life is in danger, he complains saying “I have to communicate with her again, we have to reach her! She has to know that the night of my death wasn’t an accident. Somebody wanted both of us dead”(p 109)! Tristan is sure that the only reason he came back to earth as an angel, was to save Ivy’s life. No matter what he has to do, he is convinced he is going to let her know, by working through someone else, that she needs to protect her life. Another time is the final time before Tristan first succesfully reaches Ivy, when he says “You have to help me, guide me. Tell me what I need to do to get to my love. I have to warn her, I have to tell Ivy that someone out there is wanting her life to be over”(p 155). Tristan is anxiously trying to save his love’s life, and is willing to give up anything in order to do so. He is persuising his mission so quickly, because he feels that there is no time to waste. Every second he wastes as an angel, is one second closer to Ivy becoming dead.