Fire Chapter Summary
In the chapter the Fire Dana is home recovering from her first encounter in another dimension, however, as she is recovering she begins to feel dizzy and sick again, then she appears in a room with a boy who is playing with fire. As Dana watches the boy she sees that the stick he is holding has ambers of fire, as do the curtains. Dana acts quickly by disposing of them, the boy then notices her she begins to question if it’s Rufus. As they get acquainted we discover the boy is Rufus however he is a couple years older, during this encounter Dana discovers what year it is. In addition to finding out the year, she finds out that Rufus could be a very great grandfather and a woman named Alice could be her very great grandmother. Knowing that Dana can not stay in Rufus house for long she ask the child if there is a safe place for her to take refuge, he directs her to Alice’s house. While at Alice’s house she encounters a patroller and has a very vicious fight with him luckily getting away and back with her husband who begins to form a plan to keep her safe if she goes back to that era. This chapter made me think a lot about the prolog, Dana’s encounter with the patroller was very violent, the way she overcame it was amazing but
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Each time I was about to begin the chapter people would appear out of nowhere and distract me from the reading. I was forced to constantly reread the first two pages because I was unable to digest the reading, though because of this I was able to really grasp the concept of where the chapter was going to go. In order to over come these challenges I had read most of the chapter in the late hours of the night because that is when my house is the quietest and I get the most work done. Though when I had difficulty with the text the strategy I use to overcome this was rereading until I fully understood what the author was trying to
Each time I was about to begin the chapter people would appear out of nowhere and distract me from the reading. I was forced to constantly reread the first two pages because I was unable to digest the reading, though because of this I was able to really grasp the concept of where the chapter was going to go. In order to over come these challenges I had read most of the chapter in the late hours of the night because that is when my house is the quietest and I get the most work done. Though when I had difficulty with the text the strategy I use to overcome this was rereading until I fully understood what the author was trying to