• Craig and Joan's families do not get along at all.
• Craig and Joan went out to a peace motarium and didnt call / return (parents worried).
• Craig was close to his family, wasnt the type of person to run away.
• Debbie (Joan's Bestie) knew deep down from all the commotion that she was out there dead somwhere
• teacher had a "gnawing anxiety" towards their disappearance.

4Questions

• Why didnt Craig's mom tell his dad that they were missing
• "Id better be around when he got back because he was going to need me to help him out when Dad got on him" - is dad violent?
• Did Gail respect the fact that Craig had a girlfriend?
• What specificly made debbie edgy about Joan's situtation?

3Vocab

• Moratorium: a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt b: a waiting period set by an authority; a suspension of activity.
• Dissension: Difference of opinion; disagreement.
• Colicky: Severe abdominal pain caused by spasm, obstruction, or distention of any of the hollow viscera, such as the intestines. Often a condition of early infancy, colic is marked by chronic irritability and crying.

2Literary Devices

• Metaphor: Bloody bucket road.
• Metaphor: and the bottom dropped outta me

1Summarizing Sentence

• This section of the book is about the coping and assumptions of Craig and Joan's disappearance