Victor

Think about a time when you or someone close to you was very sick. How did the illness affect you? Did it change the way you looked at life?
My grandpa he was a man that when he get around his 60 he had Arthritis and stared to get worse while he get older. I was so little and I couldn't understand very well what was happening aruond me and my grandpas ill. But I remember him complaying about the pain he felt and see my family worry about him. When the time passes and he got very sick cause of the illness the whole family was together loking for for him we all take care of him including his grandchildren.

These experience change my life in the way of how I look others and to respect them more. And it also change the way of how I look at life. Now I see life in the way that I got to live the life until the hour to die comes and I also learn to help other when they needed.

Do you think the visitors know that Cody hears them?
I think they does not know that him can hears them because in the story they never gives evidence that they talk to him buts the only one that belives that Cody can hear was victor because he always tells him stories.

What details tell you how sick Cody is?
Some of the details are that him can not move and talk.

What kind of boy is Cody?
Cody is a young boy around thirteen years old he also is a imaginative boy because in the story he imagine that the ceiling have shapes like rivers, lakes and so many more thing that he called the Land Above.

What bothers Cody about his father? Why?
What bothers Cody about his dad is that when her mom crys about his situation he strives to don't cry.

What is the "Land Above?" Why do you suppose Cody made up this place?
The Land Above is a place that Cody made up out of his braim and he probably make these place because he was lonely and have anything to distract with and because he couldn'tmove and talk.

What is one thing Victor does for Cody?
One thing he does for Cody is that he help him not to give up to his problem, and also he was the one that helped him to recover by telling him stories and give him an empty box to him to can fillin in a future and it motivate him to never give up.

How did Cody's way of thinking about life changed after meeting Victor?
He learned to never give up on his dreams.

What is Victor like?
He is an old man that helps people or at least he help Cody a lot while he was in the hospital.

How does Victor offer Cody hope?
He offers Cody hope by giving him an empty box

How is Cody's dad dealing with Cody's illness?


Whom do you think the mysterious gift is from? What makes you think so?
I think the gift was from Victor

How does Max show he's a good friend? because it say in one of the questions that he give him the box.
Because he always go to see Cody to the hospital and never live him alone.

How do Cody's family and Max react to the empty box? Why?
They tough it was a joke.

Cody wants to live. What phrases tell you this?

What is the turning point, or climax, of the story?
When Cody started to give signals that he is recoverig.

Why did Victor give Cody the gift of an empty box?

What changes are taking place in Cody and his father?

What "miracle" did Victor perform? How did he do it?

Who gave up on Cody? Who didn't? what makes you think so?

Do you think Victor was a real person? Find proof to support your opinion.

The word victor means "a winner of a battle." What battle occurred in this story? Who was a victor?