James' Homework:
(1) The boy’s father and mother represent two different attitudes toward life. What are those attitudes and how do you know that?
The way that the boy's father's attitudes toward life is to keep silent. The symbol of his attitude is showed when he was being taken away by the police. He choose to keep silent and only obey. And the way that the boy's mother face life is to sing out the strong heart. We have read that on her way to the store, she sang, and she sang to the boy, too.
(2) What are the boy’s feelings about the man in the jail who ruins the cake and how do you know that those are his feelings? In other words, what from the book would prove your point?
In the book , the writer mentioned may rude actions and words such as ruin and git that the man did to the boy. So it is a very clear symbol to prove that the boy hate the man.