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Prompt:What are two emotions the character has felt? What has made the character feel this way?
-Write down one word from your reading that you didn't know. What is your guess about what it means? How did you make this guess?

          An emotion that Kyle has felt is loneliness. He feels this way because he has no one in his life besides the maid and tutor that are being paid to live with him. His dad bought him a house, a maid, a tutor, and gave him his credit card. He also feels this way since both of his parents left him to live on his own. He is not allowed to go anywhere besides his house due to the way he looks, and being afraid of what people might do. This causes him to feel even more lonley. He never gets to meet anybody new or talk to people like the way he used to.

          Another emotion that Kyle feels is betrayal. Kyle feels betrayed by his dad because he wants nothing to do with, and since he promised that he would never see or visit him again. His dad only cares about being rich and about being good looking. Kyle had hopes that his dad wouldn't leave his side even since his mom did when he was young. Ever since he turned into a beast, his dad left him alone, and this is why he feels betrayed. He also feels betrayed by his friends, since he overheard them talking about the way they really feel about Kyle.

          A word from my reading that I didn't know before is deafening. This word was used in my text when Kyle says "This was my chance to impress her. But the silence of my stupidity was deafening." I had thought that this word meant ruining the chances of, or making it a less possible chance of it happening the way he wants it to. I believe this is the definition because in these sentences he talks about his chances of impressing her, and then uses a negative tone as if the chances were very slim do to his "silence of stupidity". The dictionary definition is "to make deaf".