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Person C & D- Questions and Answers- Nicole & Kelsey

**Did you think that Dr. Finch was going to take advantage of Deirdre, after all of his help and support?** Yes because he was a little weird and he had a really close relationship with her. He also was okay with the relationships between family members and people different ages.

**When they say they are running with scissors, why do you think they were talking about their futures?** Because they don't know what they are going to do with their lives, so many things have happen to them and they have to deal with them all at once.

**Did you expect what happen at the end of the book? What did you think was going to happen that was different?** No i didn't think that Bookman was going to leave Augusten and I also didn't think that Deidre would have so many relationships with other women. I thought that at the end Augusten and his mother would become closer and he would make up with his dad.

**Do you think Augusten should of supported his mother or the finches?** I think that he should of supported his mother because she is his mom and overall she does truly love him.

**Why do you think Bookman never decided to come back, and why did he leave to begin with?** I think that he got obsessed with Augusten and he really loved him but their relationship was not going well, and Augusten wasn't treating him nicely.

**Person A- Tayler and Lauren** Discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning?

Theme & Images - Running with scissors is about how life can be dangerous. "Running with scissors" is a saying that is used when your in a dangerous situation, and Augusten was living a hard and dangerous life. The lifestyle he was living was so hard and dangerous it was like he was always "living with scissors."

**Theme & Images** - Another theme is **change.** He started off in the book being an innocent little boy and then he was brought up in a world with all different kinds of people. He was gay, and he encountered different situations which he had to deal with. He became more mature and learned so much from his experiences he had went through in his life. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">-Another them is **trust**. He first lived with his mom and had to trust that she would take care of him and when she didn't take care of him properly he had to move out and live with someone else. He had to trust many people in his life to take care of him and also trust himself.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">**Family**- Even thought he was raised by a normal family, there was still always disfunction. His mother gave him up to live with the Finches with was a weird and strange family. Family was a big theme in this because the whole book revoled around family issues and even though everyone was dysfunctional he always had a family to go to. The whole book showed the problems and the changes the family had to go through. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">**Dr. Finches Office& House-** Augusten was there for most of the book and most of the things that happen to him or he went through happen in these two places.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">**Person B- Summary- Allyson & Lauren** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> Today we talked about the theme and images about Running With Scissors. We discussed how we foreshadowed that Dr. Finch was going to take advantage of Deirdre. We felt that Dr. Finch and Deirdre’s relationship was a little weird because he was okay with the relationships between family members and people that are different ages. We also discussed the meaning of the title “Running With Scissors,” which felt that they don’t know where their lives are going and many different things happen to them and how they have to deal with them all at once. Overall, are expectations were different. We thought it would be a happier ending rather than Bookman leaving Augusten. Also we didn’t expect Deidre would have so many relations with other women. We thought that Augusten and his mother would become closer and make up with his father. We believed that he should have supported his mother because she is mom and the fact that she truly loves him. We discussed also how Bookman never decided to come back. We think he got obsessed with Augusten and he really loved him but their relationship wasn’t going well and Augusten wasn’t treating him well.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">We also talked about the overall theme and imagery. We discussed the dangers of life. Also, how the saying “Running With Scissors” is a used in dangerous situations and how hard Augusten’s live was. Another theme was change because he starts out a innocent little boy but ends up living a hard life being gay and all the different situations he encountered. One of the images of the book, was how even though his own blood and flesh left him, he still had people who loved and cared for him.