Stop The Sun by Gary Paulsen. Genre: Historical Fiction. Pages read:9 ( 25 mins)

The words I chose are veteran, persisted, involvement and afterthought. A veteran is a person who served in the armed forces, such as the navy, air force, or army. Persisted means refused to give up; continued in a stubborn way. Involvement means the act of being a part of or taking part in something. An afterthought is an idea that occurs or comes to mind later.

I read this for English. It's about a boy named Terry and his dad who has Vietnam Syndrome. His dad always stares off into space, lost in a memory. Terry decides to find out what's wrong with him after he finds him crying and crawling on his stomach in a hardware store and he gets embarrassed to be around him. He asks him when his mom's at the store since she doesn't like him talking about it. He says that he was the only one to survive an attack on his group. He had to hide under the only half of his dead friend's body that was left to survive. Terry will now try harder to understand his dad's pain.

I think that Terry will be able to understand his dad a bit more. He will also not be afraid to be around him. He will not be embarrassed around him too. I wouldn't either.