Essential+Questions


 * __Essential Questions__ **


 * 1) What is the irony of the name Gentlehands ?
 * 2) What sort of emotions does the Gentlehands poem evoke?
 * 3) What was the irony about the saying "Nothing is so cruel as the steel trap. I saw a baby raccoon caught in a steel trap being gnawed and pulled apart by drooling dogs" when Grandpa Trenker said it ?
 * 4) How the game of Monopoly might be a metaphor for Buddy and Skye's relationship ?
 * 5) What is the concept of borrowed glory ?