Teaching "How I Live Now" - Recently Updated Pages

Themes to Ponder

babygirl1983 — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:00:51 CDT

Starvation

Reality vs. Illusion

Utopia connection

Eating disorder

War & Survival

~ The Boy Scout Handbook plays a large role in the novel for many of the characters. My brother is still in scouts and I can bring his in to class Wednesday to glance through. I posted various pictures of the cover of it through the years on the image page.

Family Conflict- relates to death of a family member, parents dating/marrying new people, etc.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Terrorism

Magical realism

Coming of Age

Young love

Telepathy

Identity

Self Injury

Animals and Humans

Staging an Intervention

Home

babygirl1983 — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:55:59 CDT

Stony Brook University

English Methods 2

Here is where we will be creating our class wiki to discuss teaching approaches for **Meg Rosoff's novel, How I Live Now. Jump right in.**

Here is the start of an outline. Just add new pages or edit these.

The Book	Resources	Further Discovery
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Concordance Connections to Other Literature	Book Reviews Useful Links Vocab. words Images	Favorite Lines Themes to ponder Cultural references Film connections

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twettyboo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:30:41 CDT

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mgil — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:38:56 CDT

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mgil — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:30:47 CDT

SONNET 110

Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there

And made myself a motley to the view,

Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,

Made old offences of affections new;

Most true it is that I have look'd on truth

Askance and strangely: but, by all above,

These blenches gave my heart another youth,

And worse essays proved thee my best of love.

Now all is done, have what shall have no end:

Mine appetite I never more will grind

On newer proof, to try an older friend,

A god in love, to whom I am confined.

Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,

Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.

Favorite Lines

PHeim — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:15:56 CST

cousin"Then he moved his head to the right just enough so he could brush his cheek against the part of my arm that was near his face and after that he closed his eyes and fell asleep while I lay there and wondered if that's the feeling you're suppose to have when your cousin touches a totally innocent part of your anatomy that's even fully clothed" (page 29, Ch. 6)

"We couldn't go on. We went on" (155).

"I felt a little pissed off at all those spy shows where the guy gets blindfolded and thrown onto the floor of the backseat and finds his way home by the noise of a chicken here and two bumps in the road there and a dog barking in the key of D which I can tell you now from experience is a load of crap, well who'd have guessed it" (72).

"I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say" (77).

"No matter how much you put on a sad expression and talked about how awful it was that all those people were killed and what about democracy and the Future of Our Great Nation the fact that none of us kids said out loud was the WE DIDN'T REALLY CARE" (42-43).

"After looking at me for a few seconds more she put her hand up very gently and pushed the hair off my face in a way that for some reason made me feel incredibly sad..." (Chapter 4, p. 15)

"I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of." (Ch. 29, p. 162)

"It was only a few months ago that there was finally a pause in the thousands of wars being waged all over the planet. Or was it one big war? I forget.
I think everyone has." (Chapter 2, p. 171)

"We were quiet for the longest time just listening to the rain on the window with his leg resting against mine and a feeling flying between us in a crazy jagged way like a bird caught in a room." (44)

"Early the next morning I was strolling around as usual in my unpleasantly populated subconscious..." (Chapter 5, p. 17)

"It's a shame, starting out your first day on the planet as a murderer but there you go, I didn't have much choice at the time." (Chapter 5, p. 19)

"the fact that none of us kids said outloud was that WE DIDN'T REALLY CARE." (chp 9, pg 43)
"I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us" (chp 14, pg 64)
"actually doing something might stop us from dying of boredom, which I was starting to realize was a major killer in a modern war." (chp 17 pg 88)

"...but I guess what you really want to know are the things you can't ask like Did she have eyes like yours and When you pushed my hair back was that what it feels like to have your mother do it and Did her hands look serious and quiet like yours and Did she ever have a chance to look at me with a complicated expression like the one on your face, and by the way Was she scared to die." (Chapter 5, p. 20)

"...and Edmond just lay there smoking and telling me he loved me without saying anything out loud..." (Chapter 13, p. 64)

"We didn't speak but I held Piper's hand and told her over and over that I loved her through the blood beating in my veins and running down through my hand and into her fingers." (Chapter 26, p. 144)

" I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss.
The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could stand at the time. Later, I wrote more, my grief muffled but not eased by the passage of time.
When I go back over my writing now I can barely read it. The happiness is the worst. Some days I can't bring myself to remember. But i will not relinquish a single detail of the past. What remains of my life depends on what happened six years ago..
In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening." (Chapter 1, p. 168)

"The fact of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices." (p.193)

"It was getting to be like Walt Disney on Ecstasy outside the house what with squirrels and hedgehogs and deer wandering around." (Chapter 11,p. 53)

"Everyone else stayed home and used the Internet, less worried about the quality of the information than the suicide bombers."(Chapter 2, p. 171)

"That room seemed like the safest i'd ever been in my life, which just goes to show how wrong a person can be out whats in store for them but here I go jumping the gun again." ( Ch. 3, P9)

"So I lay there all dreamy and thought about Aunt Penn, and my life so far, and got a little bit of a flashback of what it was like to be happy." (Ch. 5, P18)

"The tabloids waxed nostalgic for the good old days of WWII, when the enemy all spoke a foreign language and the army went somewhere else to fight."(Ch. 3, P176)

"I slipped off to be with Edmond and we said even less than usual only climbed inside each other for comfort and oblivion and fell asleep that way wrapped in black sheep blankets and together dreamt a single dream that there was no one left in the world but us" (Ch14, P67)

"So there we are carrying on our happy little life of underage sex, child labor and espionage when someone came to visit us, which, after weeks of Just Us Five kind of took us by suprise, to put it mildly." (Chapter 12, P 57)

"...one of the thoughts I had was how you could love someone more than yourself and any worry about getting stuck in the middle of a war and ending up dead was transferred onto worrying about keeping them alive." (Chapter 16, P 79-80)

"...but later when you look back on the whole story you realize that the moment she left was exactly the moment we all started skewing off into crisis like how Archduke Ferdinand getting killed started WWI even though the connection, to me at least, was never that clear." (Ch. 6 p. 24)

"...it felt much nicer than usual to be alive even if it meant a bunch of fish were going to have to die." (Ch. 5 p. 17)

"...and even though I didn't know what to do with an egg straight from a chicken's bottom I thought it was a nice thing to do." (Ch. 4, p 13)

"It was the first time as long as I could rememberthat hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction" (Ch. 11, p 53)

"The only thing I knew for certain was that all around me was more life than I'd ever experienced in all the years I'd been on earth and as long as no one shut me in the barn away from Edmond at night I was safe." (Ch. 11, p56)

"...I wondered very quietly to myself What Was Happening Here but of course it doesn't matter how quietly you wonder things when Edmond is listening. It takes a whole lot of practice to get used to being careful about what you think in the privacy of your own brain." (Ch. 9, p44)

"He even smiles occasionally, remembering, and that's when I turn sideways and look at his face, trace his scars with my finger and without speaking I tell him again and again that I'm home." (Ch. 6, p.193)

"Which one would you choose, the rock or the hard place?" (Ch.1, p19)
"'That's it,' Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone" (Ch.5, p191)

"...Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like that and if you don't believe me it means you've never met one of them yourself. Which is your loss" (Ch. 10, p. 49).

"If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is No time at all" (Ch. 21, p. 111).

"In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening."

"That nigth I slept the deep dreamless sleep of the dead" (ch. 26, p.147).

"I tried eating a little bit of bacon today because Edmond particularly asked me to but it tasted like pig and I gagged," (34).

"You could zig zag and make turns on a sudden whim and stop for tea and cut across a few back streets and decide that today would be a good time to do something totally different and try that bakery that none of you normally went to when in actual fact you had plenty of bread already at home so there'd be no reason to be in a bakery at all, and the next time you looked up Isaac would be right at your elbow, totally casual, like he'd been there all along or possibly just followed your train of thought through the crowd," (36-7).

"...with all that time on my hands I couldn't help wondering why life in a windowless barn thousands of miles from America surrounded by soldiers felt more real than most of the real life I'd ever lived through," (117).

Some Images

wetpaint — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:42:38 CST

Boy Scout Handbook covers through the years

History of the Boy Scout Handbook

Book Reviews

wetpaint — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:27:55 CST

Book Review

Another Book Review

Chapter 1

wetpaint — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:26:13 CST

My name is Elizabeth but no one’s ever called me that. My father took one look at me when I was born and must have thought I had the face of someone dignified and sad like an old-fashioned queen or a dead person, but what I turned out like is plain, not much there to notice. Even my life so far has been plain. More Daisy than Elizabeth from the word go.

But the summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part of that was because of the war, which supposedly changed lots of things, but I can’t remember much about life before the war anyway so it doesn’t count in my book, which this is.

Mostly everything changed because of Edmond.

And so here’s what happened.

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Connections to Other Literature

LKopec — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:16:43 CST

Marvel's poem The Garden uses gorgeous imagery to portray the garden as a retreat from public life, where body and mind can seperate and grow. When I read it for another class I immediately thought of Rosoff's description of the garden and the relationship Edmond develops with it.

The Garden

Andrew Marvel

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays,
And their incessant labours see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-verged shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose!

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence thy sister dear?
Mistaken long, I sought you
then In busy companies of men.
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow.
Society is all but rude
To this delicious solitude:

No white nor red was ever seen
So am'rous as this lovely green.
Fond lovers, cruel as their flame,
Cut in these trees their mistress' name.
Little, alas, they know or heed
How far these beauties hers exceed!
Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound,
No name shall but your own be found.

When we have run our passion's heat
Love hither makes his best retreat.
The gods, that mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race:
Apollo hunted Daphne so,
Only that she might laurel grow;
And Pan did after Syrinx speed,
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.

What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine, and curious peach,
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flow'rs, I fall on grass.

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness --
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.

Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There like a bird it sits and sings,
Then whets and combs its silver wings,
And, till prepared for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.

Such was that happy garden-state,
While man there walked without a mate:
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet!
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there:
Two paradises 'twere in one
To live in Paradise alone.

How well the skilful gardener drew
Of flow'rs and herbs this dial new;
Where from above the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run;
And, as it works, th' industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckoned but with herbs and flow'rs!

Songlist

PFoote — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:25:29 CST

Here are some songs that might relate to How I live Now

Superman's Dead- Our Lady Peace
Its the End of the World as We Know It -REM
I Have Seen the Rain- Pink
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
There'll Always Be An England - Parker & Charles
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Under the Paving Stones - The Like
Too Late - The Like
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Where Is The Love- Black Eyed Peas

Cultural References

evogel — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:00:09 CST

"My father took one look at me when I was born and must have thought I had the face of someone dignified and sad like an old-fashioned queen or a dead person..." (1).

"...some is just starting to bloom in an acidy yellow color which Edmond says is rape as in rapeseed oil but the only kind of rape I know is the kind you read about in the paper ten times a day and always ignore unless the rapist turns out to be a priest or someone on TV," (8).

"...all it said was NO NETWORK and I thought Oh boy so much for civilization and felt a little freaked out and thought of that movie where they say No One Can Hear You Scream," (10).

"...so far I was finding Life With My Cousins more than OK and a huge improvement over my so-called life at home on Eighty-sixth Street," (16).

"...the moment she left was exactly the moment we all started skewing off into crisis like how Archduke Ferdinand getting killed started WWI even though the connection, to me at least, was never that clear," (24).

"...a shoe store that also sold raincoats and waterproof boots and footballs and penny candy and Tweety Bird backpacks," (26).

"...don't look now but there's a Smurf with a hard-on in your pants," (33).

"It turns out to be true that an Object in Motion Remains in Motion. Well than you, Miss Valerie Greene, science teacher badk at dear old Nightingale-Bamford School for Girls," (47).

"From my point of view this made any doomsday scenario even harder to get my head around, especially having grown up in the Concrete Jungle, which possibly overstates the case given that the Upper West Side is fairly leafy, as concrete jungles go," (52).

"It was getting to be like Walt Disney on Ecstasy outside the house what with squirrels and hedgehogs and deer wandering around with ducks and dogs and chickens and goats and sheep and if anyone looked totally disoriented by this whole war thing it was them," (53).

"...all I could think was this would not happen in America but of course for all I knew the Green Berets were already holed up in Bloomingdale's," (66).

"...but do you know anyone, even in the middle of a war, who's going to take on a group of five kids especially ones like us who don't exactly remind you of Little Women even on our best day?" (67).

"...I figured we'd gone about fifteen or twenty miles by the time we got where we were going, what with speed divided by time equaling four birds in a tree singing Melancholy Baby," (73).

"...I had to squint and think of Piper to keep my fake smile from turning into something more like Jason in Friday the 13th," (74).

"...the closest you ever got to Agricultural Produce was a corned beef sandwich from Zabar's..." (85).

"All in all I felt a little guilty about the fact that while us kids had been living the Life of Riley, a whole bunch of other people had been scurrying aorund like lunatics trying to keep the Social Fabric from Unraveling..." (87).

"Strange as it sounds, he visited me, not exactly like god visiting Moses or angels telling mary she's knocked up with the Christ Child, but come to think of it not cocmpletely unlike that either," (89).

"...I wouldn't have recognized a hazelnut if it tapped me on the shoulder and asked me how to get to Carnegie Hall..." (124).

"I felt full of rage and despair, like Job shaking his fist at god, and all I could do was sit whith her and stroke her hair and murmur enough, enough, because that's what we'd both had," (154).

"...I settled for Old Faithful," (156).

"What we really needed was a huge Amana refrigerator-freezer with ice maker and root beer dispenser," (159).

"I tried doing the thing they do with dogs in the movies, saying JET FETCH EDMOND! and pointing in the general direction of th Wide World but he didn't bound off like Lassie follwoing a hot scent..." (160).

"...I moved into a derelict office building near what used to be Grand Central," (170).

"Around the corner was The New york Public Library, Main Branch, Forty-second and Fifth," (171).

Literature Connections

lmatuza — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:36:52 CST

In The Country of Last Things, by Paul Auster. Read the first chapter here and see the connections!

Useful Links

PHeim — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:46:45 CST

Youtube Interview with Meg Rosoff

Listen to an Interview with Meg Rossoff

Meg Rosoff Interview

Meg Rosoff: short autobiography

Amazon review and information

Penguin Teacher's Guide

Interview with Meg Rossoff - (This is the one we dicussed in class on Tuesday October 31st)

Wikipedia's: How I Live Now

Part Two-Chapter 1

abowcock — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:16:55 CST

I ended up in a hospital, where they kept me for months after I arrived back in New York, staring at a wall, stunned silent, frozen rigid with anger and grief. My willingness to eat confused and annoyed the staff, confounded their efforts to understand what I was doing there. For months, an explanation for my presence escaped them completely. But I wasn't about to help them with that problem.
Eventually they were forced to release me, still unable to diagnose the obvious.
So here it is, finally, and I hope they're paying attention.
I was in the hospital because it was convenient. It was the only way to get me out of England. I was not interested in starving, killing, slashin, depriving, maiming or punishing myself.

Film Connections

mgil — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:19:05 CST

1. Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS - this movie has several depictions of what happens to human nature in the face of extreme hardship and fear, and also of how the fabric of society holds (or not) under the pressure and chaos of "The Decline of Western Civilization" (page 48 in the book). Chapters 9 & 17, in particular, highlight society's reaction to the circumstances of war.

2. Thin - http://diets.aol.com/newsandtrends/lauren-greenfield-thin-documentary - Lauren Greenfield discusses her film about cultural attitudes towards women and their bodies. In this documentary, she cronicles the stories of four women with eating disorders - premieres on HBO on November 14, 2006 at 9PM ET. See trailer.

VOCABULARY WORDS

mgil — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:54:03 CST

Vocab. words

Ch. 4
Harpy
Hyperventilating
Imminent
Intrepid
Vivid
Ch. 5
Futile
Oslo
Pious
Ch. 6
Carnage
Cobbled
Crestfallen
Epicenter
Foraging
Foreseeable
Picturesque
Populace
Solemn
Ch. 9
Anarchy
Embargoes
Exigencies
Grimace
Premises
Rationing
Ch. 10
Illicit
Thrall
Ch. 11
Clandestine
Epidemic
Fringe
Increments
Jaunts
Milling
Quarantine
Queue
Spores
Ch. 12
Surplus

Ch. 14
Lackey
Sequestered
Sullen
Ch. 15
Chauffeur
Discretion
Expendable
Hordes
Juncture
Lark
Marauding
Mnemonic
Morse
Pillage
Plight
Vacate
Wildebeest
Ch. 16
Breach
Desolate
Ch. 17
Osmosis
Scurrying
Ch. 18
Conjured
Siblings
Ch. 19
Angling
Aptitude
Bleating
Epidemic
Fodder
Pensive
Ch. 20
Forum
Rationing
Sterilize

Ch. 21
Schizophrenic
Substantial
Ch. 23
Bivouac
Surreal
Ch. 24
Hieroglyphics
Ch. 25
Blewits
Deprivation
Phenomenon
Ch. 26
Barren
Exhilaration
Incarnation
Paddocks
Putrid
Speculate
Ch. 27
Adamant
Booty
Provisions
Retching
Stowed
Ch. 28
Meandering
Pixie
Spuds
Ch. 29
Mystical
Portents
Uncanny

Chapter 3

kbrunet — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:46:59 CST

I fell asleep in the jeep because it was a long way to get to their house and watching the highway go by always makes me want to close my eyes. And then when I opened them again, there was this welcoming committee staring at me through the window and in it were four kids, and a goat and a couple of dogs who I later was told were called Jet and Gin, and in the background I saw some cats scooting around after a bunch of ducks that for some reason or other were hanging around on the lawn.
And for a minute I was so glad I was fifteen and from New York City because even though I haven't actually Seen It All, I have in fact seen more than plenty, and I have on of the best Oh Yeah, This Is So Much What I Usually Do kind of faces of anyone in my crowd. I put on that face right then, though let's be fair, all of this was taking me pretty much by surprise, because I didn't want them to think that kids from New York City are not at least as cool as English kids who just happen to live in huge ancient houses and have goats and dogs and all the rest.

Before I tell you what happened then, I have to tell you about the house, which is pretty indescribable if the only sort of houses you've lived in before are apartments in New York City.

Chapter 2

jeaniet — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:04:04 CST

2

I’m coming off this plane, and I’ll tell you why that is later, and landing at London airport and I’m looking around for a middle-aged kind of woman who I’ve seen in pictures who’s my Aunt Penn. The photographs are out of date, but she looked like the type who would wear a big necklace and flat shoes, and maybe some kind of narrow dress in black or gray. But I’m just guessing since the pictures only showed her face.

Anyway, I’m looking and looking and everyone’s leaving and there’s no signal on my phone and I’m thinking Oh great, I’m going to be abandoned at the airport so that’s two countries they don’t want me in, when I notice everyone’s gone except this kid who comes up to me and says You must be Daisy. And when I look relieved he does too and says I’m Edmond.

Hello Edmond, I said, nice to meet you, and I look at him hard to try to get a feel for what my new life with my cousins might be like.

Now let me tell you what he looks like before I forget because it’s not exactly what you’d expect from your average fourteen-year-old what with the CIGARETTE and hair that looked like he cut it himself with a hatchet in the dead of night, but aside from that he’s exactly like some kind of mutt, you know the ones you see at the dog shelter who are kind of hopeful and sweet and put their nose straight into your hand when they meet you with a certain kind of dignity and you know from that second that you’re going to take him home? Well that’s him.

Only he took me home.

I’ll take your bag, he said, and even though he’s about half a mile shorter than me and has arms about as thick as a dog leg, he grabs my bag, and I grab it back and say Where’s your mom, is she in the car?

And he smiles and takes a drag on his cigarette, which even though I know smoking kills and all that, I think is a little bit cool, but maybe all the kids in England smoke cigarettes? I don’t say anything in case it’s a well-known fact that the smoking age in England is something like twelve and by making a big thing about it I’ll end up looking like an idiot when I’ve barely been here five minutes. Anyway, he says Mum couldn’t come to the airport cause she’s working and it’s not worth anyone’s life to interrupt her while she’s working, and everyone else seemed to be somewhere else, so I drove here myself.

I looked at him funny then.

You drove here yourself? You DROVE HERE yourself? Yeah well and I’M the Duchess of Panama’s Private Secretary.

And then he gave a little shrug and a little dog-shelter-dog kind of tilt of his head and he pointed at a falling-apart black jeep and he opened the door by reaching in through the window which was open, and pulling the handle up and yanking. He threw my bag in the back, though more like pushed it in, because it was pretty heavy, and then said Get in Cousin Daisy, and there was nothing else I could think of to do so I got in.

I’m still trying to get my head around all this when instead of following the signs that say Exit he turns the car up onto this grass and then drives across to a sign that says Do Not Enter and of course he Enters and then he jogs left across a ditch and suddenly we’re out on the highway.

Can you believe they charge £13.50 just to park there for an hour? he says to me.

Well to be fair, there is no way I’m believing any of this, being driven along on the wrong side of the road by this skinny kid dragging on a cigarette and let’s face it who wouldn’t be thinking what a weird place England is.

And then he looked at me again in his funny doggy way, and he said You’ll get used to it. Which was strange too, because I hadn’t said anything out loud.

Concordance

cmrichter25 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:37:09 CST

HOW I LIVE NOW
CONCORDANCE (List of most frequently occurring words)

207. Piper
118. Edmond
116. get
107. things, time
102. got
99. day, little
97. down
92. looked
90. even
87. thought
85. people
78. going
76. pretty
68. house, kind, something, went
64. see, now, started
60. war, know, anything, lot, still
56. few, good, night, say, look, Isaac
54. big, first
51. everyone, think
48. away, face, food, seemed, trying, without, left, life, Osbert
46. again, came, dog, go, looking
44. enough, barn, army, feeling, felt
42. knew, put, tell, told
40. new, eyes, getting, might, guess, hand, jet, water