Hands by Torrey Maldonado
Choose one of the following prompts to respond to:
- Why doesn’t anybody want Trev to know how to fight?
- Trev realizes he has a village to help him deal with his stepfather. Who is part of your village, the people who can help or guide you?
Nobody wants Trev to know how to fight because fighting leads to cops and cops lead to jail. His family wants him to use his brain not his fists.
nobody wanted Trev to learn how to fight because hell use his hands and not his brain
Trev wanted to be a boxer but his mom wanted him to be an artist and he wants to be a boxer cause his step dad hit his mom.
1- He wanted to fight to protect his mom from his stepdad, but nobody wants him to because he could get in trouble that way.
My village is my closest friends and family like my mom and siblings and my best friend.
2.)
My village is my wiener dog
Nobody wants Trev to know how to fight because, they dont want him to get involved with anything about the police like his stepdad. But, Trev wants to help protect his family from his stepdad. They want him to not use his hands but his brain to use.
Because trev has had a very hard time with his dad so if he gets to mad then he will get in a fist fight and get the cops called on him and he will get in trubel and peaple don’t want that to happen to him because everybody knows that he is a very nice kid and no one wants him to tern him into a bad kid.
2. My father, my mom, and all the friends and family I can trust.
My village is my close family and friends like my brother or my grandpa.
2. all the people who love and support me
No one wants trev to fight because they think he wil end up like his stepdad
Nobody wants Trev to know how to fight because his mom wants him to use his brain and not his fists
They do not want trever to know how to fhight so he does not huret anyone.
His family doesn’t want him to know how to fight, because his mom wants him to use his brain and not his hands/fist or so he doesn’t want to hurt anybody.