Signpost-Aha+Moment

= //AHA MOMENT// =

== //When you're reading and suddenly a character// //relies, understands, or finally figures something out, stop and ask yourself:// ==

= "How might this change things?" =

=== If the character figured out a problem, you probably just learned about the conflict. === === If the character understood a life lesson, you probably just learned the theme. ===

//Bone: Quest for the Spark Book 1//, p. 210 - "This must be why the Dreaming thought the Rat //Creatures were important,he thought."//

//Loser//, by Jerry Spinelli p.108 - "Even in bed that night, Zinkoff can still feel the shake and shimmy of the old rattletrap, and coming through loud and clear is a message that was never said. He knows that he could lose a thousand races and his father will never give up on him. he knows that if he ever springs a leak or throws a gasket, his dad will be there with duct tape and chewing him to patch him up, that no matter how much he rattles and knocks, he'll always be a honeybug to his dad, never a clunker."

//Loser//, by Jerry Spinelli p. 185 - "And Zinkoff saw in that moment something that he had no words for. He saw that a kid runs to be found and jumps to be caught."

 The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton  p. 38 - "That's why we're separated," I said. "It's not money, it's feeling - you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently."  p. 76 - "But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read."  p. 88 - "I thought about it for a minute. Darry and Soda were my brothers...  p. 98 - "In that second, what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me all came through..."   p. 138 - "I'd never thought about it before, but they would just get worse as they got older..."   p. 152 - "Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew..." <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">  p. 175 - "Neither of us realized what it was doing to Soda when we fought..." //**Please delete this page**// //**no**//