Reading Log Questions

1. In the book Friendswood Willa is Dani's bestfriend and Dex's assigned partner in class. Willa's relationship with her parents was healthy, after her dad's schedule at work changed recently she hasn't been as willingly open to them. She hadn't told her parents about her visions. "She wrote down a list of the visions that had appeared so far. There had been a little girl, reaching up with both arms for Willa to hold her." She had visions in her dreams about people and flashes of certain colors. I believe the origin of these visions came from an affect of living in a neighborhood that was chemically contaminated. Willa could have also gotten these visions has a birth defect, because Willa's parents were friends with Lee and Lee's daughter died because of the chemical contamination in Rosemont so I concluded that Willa's parent's could have lived there before.

3. Hal is Cully's father and he is a real estate agent. In the book Hal has been struggling to sell off houses, sometimes he's successful at other times he's not, such as now. His relationship with Darlene isn't 100% put together because Hal is having an affair, but it seems like Cully has a good relationship with her and as a family are happy.

4. Lee is the mother of Jess and the ex wife of Jack. While living in Rosemont because of the chemical exploitation in that town, her daughter Jess dies from blood disease. Because of her daughter passing, Lee started trying to get closer out of finding proof of reasons why her daughter died. Towards other people in town Lee looks out of it and crazy, but many sympathy her lost.

5. The chemical dumping that happened in Rosewood ending up having people get cancer and die from it. It started off as something only miner and people were just questionable about the soil, but EPA kept tasting the soil and clearing it for being clean. Then things like a slug that was able to cause pain and leave sores on people started happening. The EPA and Garbit Company were responsible for the chemical dumping and it's effect on the town. The community outside of Rosemont use the chemical dumping as small talk and how it had an effect on some people in town, such as the guy at the gas station who has a mental issue.

6. Friendswood in a way reminds me of the Flint, Michigan story. The Flint, Michigan story is of how the water became contaminated through the lead pipes. It started about 2 years ago in April when Michigan changed there water source, because the pipes were contaminated with corrosive chemicals and lead. People who drank the water became sick much like how the chemicals in the oil caused people in Rosemont to become sick.

7. As the role of EPA they are supposed to make sure the communities environment is safe. The governmental agencies did not fulfill their role properly as they were supposed to make sure when they tested all the things they tested that they were clean and in no way damaging to life.