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Deer Hunting Chapter Summary

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This chapter begins with Jack still playing baseball with his team, but that doesn't last long. Soon, his mother is there and chases him around the bases until she grabs him and drives him home. The only thing she said to him was when she threw him in his room. Right before the door slammed shut she shouted YOUR GROUNDED at the top of her lungs and stomped away. When Jack was laying in his bed doing nothing, he remembered his first hunting trip with his father. While on the drive there, his father told him about gun safety and other key things. One of those key things is not to pass air, or fart, because that would scare the deer away. When they arrived at their tree house in the woods, they caught sight of a deer. Jack thought the deer was beautiful, and right at that moment he decided that he didn't want to kill the deer. He did the one thing his dad told him not to do, he farted. His dad just looked at him and knew instantly that he did something because his nose was bleeding. That was Jack's last deer hunting trip. During this chapter Jack's mom tries to do something that only happened in the old Norvelt days. She tried to trade one thing for another, and not for money. She asked the local doctor is he could fix Jack's nose for …show more content…

One of Miss. Volker's "spotters" called. Her "spotters" are her secret group of spies that she has looking over the original Norvelters. One of her "spotters" thought Mrs. Dubicki had died. So, Miss. Volker called Jack over to help her and told him to wear his Grim Reaper costume. When they arrived at Mrs. Dubicki's house, Miss. Volker sent Jack in to see if she was really dead. He found her laying on the couch and pinched her to see if she was alive. When he pinched her, she jumped right up and kindly asked the Grim Reaper, or Jack, to take her away after her grandchild's birthday in a few days. Jack didn't know what to do so he said okay and ran out of the house with a bloody

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