Background Information

Everyone's family history is interesting. Discuss your family histories. What type of work do siblings do? Is everyone in the immediate family still living? Also discuss what dreams you had as a child. What type of work did you see yourself doing? How about the rest of your family? Are you proud of your family?

Questions

1. Who raised Bud after his mother died?

2. What does it mean if you are strong willed?

3. Why do you think going to the cemetery and talking to his dead father make Bud feel better?

4. What is a torpedo?

5. How many jobs did Bud's brother work at?

6. Use the word freight in a sentence.

7. Do you think Bud is proud of his family? Why?

8. Why did Bud's sister work as a riveter during the war?

9. What does the word retire mean?

10. Do you think that Bud's life has been easy or hard and why?