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Where has Ed DeBose been all these years? That is the question, Branden wrote in his Big Book of Questions. Please write your ideas why Branden has not seen his grandfather ED DeBose before the day at the mall. After writing your comment please write a response to three other comments. Remember they must be detail thoughts not just to agree with them.
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112 Comments
Pooja
8/25/2014 05:23:01 am
He was probably staying away from Brendan because he didn't want to see him.
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Jake
8/25/2014 07:57:50 am
I think that he wanted to see Branden but he didn't want to see Branden's mom or dad.
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Evan
8/25/2014 07:47:09 pm
I think you might be right he probably wants to spend time with his grandson ,but the mom and dad aren't happy with that because Brendan's mom gets mad when Brendan asks about grandpa Ed Debose.
Divya
8/26/2014 09:15:12 am
I think you might be correct because maybe Brendan's parents got into a fight with Ed De Bose. Also Brendan's parents could have thought that Ed De Bose would be a bad influence, and he didn't like that thought. That might be why Ed De Bose hasn't seen Brendan.
Hannah
8/31/2014 03:23:10 am
Jake, I agree with you because what grandparent does not want to see his grandkid? However, Ed does not want to see Brendan's parents since they upset him.
Rahma
9/1/2014 05:28:07 am
Jake, I think that is true because Ed Debose was fine when he was talking to Brendan at the mall, but when Gladys came to Brendan she freaked out about who he was talking to.
Elijah G.
9/1/2014 07:39:18 am
Jake I agree because Brendan did nothing wrong. He just thinks the dad was a bad choice of marriage.
Noah
8/25/2014 09:20:49 pm
Probably not because he didn't want to see Brendan, because I personally think that since he didn't recognize Brendan at the mall he may not even know about Brendan.. Or probably he has just changed a lot since he was a baby.
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Ryan#9
8/26/2014 05:06:35 am
You dicribed that very well and it makes a lot of sense.
Divya
8/26/2014 09:28:06 am
I disagree with you because Ed De Bose couldn't be mad at Brendan because he didn't know that Brendan was even alive or who he was. So Ed De Bose could not stay away from Brendan because it said in the book that Brendan hasn't even seen Ed De Bose, so there is no possible way that Ed De Bose couldn't want to see Brendan.
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Lauren
8/28/2014 05:41:53 am
I agree with you Divya Ed Debose couldn't have been mad at Brendan because he hasn't seen Brendan and couldn't not want rto see him. But in chapter three Brendan aked his mom if Ed knew about him and she said yes.
avery
8/27/2014 07:04:05 am
Maybe Ed Debose didn't know Brendan even existed. It is also possible that he never had the guts to look for him. Based on how well they got along at the mall it is had for me to imagine that Ed Debose wanted to stay away from Brendan.
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Nicholas
9/1/2014 08:20:14 am
Pooja, I disagree because ED Debose probably wants to see Brenden but does not want to see his mom or dad.
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Ethan
8/25/2014 05:38:46 am
He probably got divorced with his wife before she had a baby and didn't come back to see Brendan because he did know he existed.
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felipe
8/25/2014 06:23:51 am
you might be right because they haven't mentioned the grandma on his mothers side.
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Sean
8/25/2014 07:27:00 am
In the book it said that his other grandma died when he was born so he didn't get divorced.
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Hemasai193
8/25/2014 07:39:39 am
Yeah,it said that Brendan's grandma from his mom's side died before he was born.
Juan Pablo
8/27/2014 04:41:18 am
I think your right because all it said was the grandma died. He might have gotten divorced before mom was alive. Ed might not have known about Brendan.
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Hannah
8/31/2014 02:57:47 am
Juan Pablo, I disagree with you I think Ed DeBose did know about Brendan. When Brendan was bugging his mom he asked if Ed DeBose knew him and his mom said yes Ed DeBose did know him.
Benjamin
8/28/2014 05:31:12 am
I do not know why you are making the assumption that Ed Debose got divorced with his wife because it says nothing about Ed getting divorced in the book. I think that he did not like who his daughter married which is a black man.
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Nicholas
9/1/2014 08:26:11 am
I agree because it dose not say any thing about getting a divorce. Its probably because he was made that his daughter married somebody that was not in there race.
Maxwell
8/30/2014 11:07:09 pm
You're right Ethan. Maybe Ed got a divorce with the grandma on Brendan's mom's side but he knew Brendan was alive.
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Simone
8/25/2014 05:39:54 am
Ed does not like to communicate with his daughter's family because they are black.
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Hemasai193
8/25/2014 07:36:29 am
I also think that Ed doesn't like black people
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Jessica
8/25/2014 11:29:24 am
I think this might be true because he stayed away for so long and he might have still been mad at his daughter. I also think this might be true because Brendan never saw him.
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avery
8/27/2014 07:12:03 am
Simone, you have a great idea. Maybe Ed Debose left Katherine and her family because they where black!
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Benjamin
8/28/2014 04:55:10 am
In the book it says that Ed Debose told Brendan that you should not judge a rock by its color. He is actually doing the same thing but with people. He does not like that his daughter married a black man.
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Simone
8/25/2014 05:41:26 am
And he does not like black people [so rude]
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Manasi 14
8/31/2014 12:16:42 am
I think you are right Simone. Maybe Brendan's grandpa disapproved marriage of Brendan's mom marring a black person.And yes even though in the time where all of our grandpa were in there 30's white would marry white and black would marry black but now this is the present where any skin tone is allowed to marry any skin tone so Grandpa debose is very mean to disapprove the marriage.
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Rahma
9/1/2014 05:21:59 am
I agree with you Simone. That is very disrespectful to Brendan and his family because it is not appropriate to be biased to African Americans.
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Simone
8/25/2014 05:43:49 am
[ last time ] and he doesn't like her choice of marriage so they never communitcate
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camryn
8/26/2014 05:07:23 am
I think your right Simone beacause mabey people didn't like blacks marrying whites.
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Kylie to Simone
8/26/2014 11:01:39 am
This might of happened a long time ago when whites and blacks didn't always get a long quite as much as we do now.
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Lauren
8/28/2014 05:35:04 am
I think you are right Simone because maybe he didn't approve of the marriage choice and didn't like that she was going to marry a black man.
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Elijah
8/25/2014 05:49:00 am
She doesnt want brendan seeing him
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Sean
8/25/2014 07:40:32 am
Elijah I agree with you that she doesn't want Brendan seeing Ed but you don't specifify the reason why.
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madeline
8/25/2014 05:56:36 am
He probably didn't want to do anything with the dark people.
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Jessica
8/25/2014 11:34:23 am
I think he didn't want his daughter to marry an African American. I don't know why he would get mad about this.
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Maxwell
8/29/2014 09:36:05 am
Madeline you are right. I think he did not want to get into a situation where someone says that family does not match.
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Manasi
8/31/2014 12:24:35 am
Madeline maybe Grandpa debose didn't like black people.
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Madeline
8/25/2014 05:59:57 am
I a question. Does he not want to see the family because they are black or is it another thing that happened?
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Hemasai193
8/25/2014 07:44:06 am
It's probably because he doesn't like black people.
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Ryan #9
8/26/2014 05:01:24 am
Maybe Yah think so to.
avery
8/27/2014 07:19:42 am
Please, he isn't rude. Back then people thought it was weird for black and white people to marry. Ed Deboes must of thought that to. Maybe at the end he will see that black people aren't so bad and will be sorry for his mistake.
Camryn
8/26/2014 05:13:22 am
I think its beacause he doesn't like black people.
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Kylie to Cam
8/26/2014 10:58:58 am
Yes he's very rude, I wonder why?
Manasi
8/31/2014 12:27:51 am
Its most problably because they are black
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felipe
8/25/2014 06:21:36 am
i think grandpa de bose doesnt like that her daughter got married with someone black.
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Jake
8/25/2014 08:03:00 am
Maybe Ed De Bose has problems from his childhood so he does not like black people because there was segregation when he was young.
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Evan
8/25/2014 07:54:18 pm
That could be right because back when Ed was a child I'm sure things were a lot different about who you could marry
Divya
8/26/2014 09:21:58 am
That could be the case because maybe when Ed De Bose wads a child white and black people weren't even aloud to do thing together. Back then maybe nobody black would ever marry a white person, and nobody white would marry a black person. That might be why Ed De Bose doesn't interact with Brendan's family.
Juan Pablo
8/27/2014 04:53:01 am
He might have been segregation like you said and disagreed with Martin Luther King Jr.. He also might have broke up with mom, when mom maried dad. The reason for this is because a white maried a black.
Elijah G.
9/1/2014 07:48:06 am
Jake your right there has to be a reason he didn't like black people. Maybe because he didn't get along with one when he was young.
Noah
8/25/2014 06:55:00 am
Brendan probably doesn't know about Ed DeBose because once Brendan's mom and dad got married, he probably got mad at his daughter for marrying a African American, therefore either not talking to her anymore or moving away.
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Sean
8/25/2014 07:36:07 am
Noah, while I partially agree with your paragraph you said at the that Ed Debose moved away but he didn't. In the book, Brendan talks to his mom and she says that Ed Debose lives in the same spot that he did when she was little.
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Noah
8/25/2014 09:18:01 pm
Very true. I guess I just forgot it said that when I was typing the paragraph.
ryan
9/1/2014 11:17:00 am
I agree, but the question is, how long have Brendan's mom and dad been married sense Brendan has been born because if he was born like about 9 and a half months after they got married [which is highly uncommon]then Ed Debose might still been there, packing his bags ready to leave to another city.
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JAKE
8/25/2014 07:00:47 am
I think Ed De Bose does not like that Brandens mom got married to a black man.
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Noah
8/25/2014 09:24:42 pm
That is probably most likely right. After all, he was probably born in a generation (Ha Ha! Latin root word!) where blacks and whites were not treated equally, making him as a white person to not like his daughter's choice on who to marry.
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Adyant
8/27/2014 05:02:26 am
Jake, I disagree because in my paragraph I said that mom said he was a soil tester so maybe he got interested in rocks and quit his soil testing job and started a rock selling job. The family didn't like it because a rock selling job is a job that you do not get a lot of money, so they said either quit the rock selling job or leave the house, so Ed Debose left
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Jake
9/1/2014 10:04:15 am
That's very interesting Adi.
Benjamin
8/28/2014 05:08:21 am
If I was Brendan I would feel angry if my grandpa got furious of who his daughter married. I will feel angry because it does not matter the color of your skin. It should matter if your kind, helping, and loyal.
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Sean
8/25/2014 07:19:02 am
I think that Ed Debose was just living his normal life all these years. I don't think he knew that Brendan existed. Also, I don't think that Grandpa Ed Debose was trying to avoid Brendan. He just didn't know.
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Evan
8/25/2014 08:06:28 pm
That's a very good idea he probably had an argument with his mom and never talked to her again which means there is no way his mom would tell him about Brendan.
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Camryn
8/26/2014 05:20:31 am
You might be right Sean beacause he might of knew that Brendan's mom was pregnent, but he did not know when she was going to have Brendan.
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Kylie
8/26/2014 11:09:14 am
You could be right Sean but would he forget/didn't know about this grandson for 12 years... it doesn't seem right. That would be cruel to forget someone in your family. Or its about the mother not being close to him and they don't tell each other things about them or there life.
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Adyant
8/27/2014 05:13:45 am
Sean, I agree because I think Ed Debose was a nice person. He talked nice to Brendan at the mall.
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Hemasai193
8/25/2014 07:33:30 am
I think Ed Debose has been avoiding the Buckleys because he didn't like black people.I also think Ed has been trying to meet Brendan but didn't want to deal with Katherine,his daughter[also Brendan's mom].
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Evan
8/25/2014 08:27:11 am
I think something may have happens between Brendan's mom and grandpa Ed Debose which stops him from seeing Brendan.
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Jessica
8/25/2014 11:31:47 am
I agree with you because most grandparents would visit their grandchildren if they had the chance. They probably got into an argument.
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Adyant
8/27/2014 05:27:43 am
Jessica, What if when Ed Debose got from the house, The Buckley's might have moved to a different home so Ed Debose could not visit
Adyant
8/27/2014 05:29:35 am
Sorry I meant "Got out.
Ryan #9
8/25/2014 10:15:36 am
I think it is the BLACK and WHITE thing in history so he hasn't been seeing Brandon because of racism.
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Jessica
8/25/2014 11:27:13 am
I think Brendan did not see his grandfather, Ed DeBose, because his mother probably got into an argument with Ed. Brendan's mother is white and she married an African American. I think Ed might have gotten mad so his mom didn't want to talk to him anymore.
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camryn
8/26/2014 05:00:26 am
I think Ed is mad at his dauter for marrying a black person.
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Jackson
8/26/2014 05:00:46 am
I think Ed Debose got into a fight with Brendan's mom. If that happened, then he might not want to visit.
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Ryan#9
8/26/2014 05:03:41 am
That does make a lot of sense.
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Jackson
8/26/2014 05:05:45 am
Your right Jake... Grandpa Ed could have not liked black people. Especially his daughter getting married to someone who was black
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Jackson
8/26/2014 05:10:52 am
Sean, you could be right. Maybe Ed Debose didn't know Brendan was alive.
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Jackson
8/26/2014 05:12:46 am
Good point Pooja... Maybe Ed Debose didn't like his daughter's family.
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Divya
8/26/2014 09:09:49 am
I think that Brendan has not seen Ed De Bose until the day at the mall because the rest of Brendan family doesn't think that they should meet each other. Maybe Brendan's mom had a huge argument with her father (Ed De Bose) and they decided that they should be separated forever and never see each other. Or maybe all of Brendan's family wanted Ed De Bose to never see them again because they thought that he set bad examples and wasn't a reliable man. Maybe it could also be that Ed De Bose didn't want to be around his family.
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James1
8/26/2014 09:27:50 am
I think Ed might had done something terrible like harming Brendans mother of his mother.
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Kylie
8/26/2014 10:55:28 am
I think Ed DeBose isn't happy that his white daughter married an African American and he might of tried to harm the mom and dad. Maybe since Brendan is part black he might of tried to hurt Brendan and his parents were protecting him from getting hurt.I wonder why Gladys was involved, can any body answer my question?
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Adyant
8/27/2014 04:38:20 am
Kylie, I disagree because when Brendan met Ed Debose at the mall he was really nice to him.
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Juan Pablo
8/27/2014 04:57:07 am
If he tried to harm brendan he would have tried to do it at the mall. things what if brendan has changed a lot from a baby. I still stick with the first one though.
Maxwell
8/29/2014 09:22:05 am
Kylie I don't think Ed DeBose would try and hurt the mother or the father because the father is a policeman, and he would not have wanted to hurt the baby.
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Nicholas
9/1/2014 10:07:53 am
I do not think that ED wants to hurt Brenden because a old man would'nt want to go to jail. Would he? Plus I think its because Brendans mom married a black person.
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Hailey
9/3/2014 05:44:02 am
I will answer your qustion.I think that Gladys met Ed during one time period to maybe persuade her to get her son to change his mind about marrying his daughter.Gladys disagreed.
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Juan Pablo
8/27/2014 04:31:54 am
I think Ed Debose and mom never got along. Ed Debose might've tried to see Brendan but Mom said no. There must have been this big fight between mom and grandpa.
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Elijah G.
9/1/2014 07:32:49 am
I disagree I think when Brendan's mom got married he said I don't want to see you anymore because of the marriage choice.
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Lauren
8/27/2014 06:28:38 am
I think Ed Debose did not want to visit Brendan and his family because he did not approve of Brendan's mother's marriage choice. Back then blacks and whites did not get along as well. Maybe Ed did want to meet his grandson but Brendan's mom said no.
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Benjamin
8/28/2014 04:42:47 am
I do not think that Ed Debose has any clue who Brendan is. I think Ed Debose has been living his own life without his daughter. I think Ed Debose did not like that his daughter married an African American man. So he was not part of the family.
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Lauren
8/28/2014 05:31:04 am
I disagree with the sentence about Ed Debose not knowing who Brendan is. I disagree because in chapter three Brendan was aking his mom questions about Ed and Brendan asked "Does Grandpa Debose know about me?'' and his mom said yes.
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Adyant
8/28/2014 07:59:32 am
Maybe mom was lying when Brendan was asking questions.
ryan
9/1/2014 10:53:22 am
just because his son-in-law is African American doesn't mean that he isn't a part of the family.
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Maxwell
8/29/2014 08:52:21 am
I think Ed DeBose got into a fight with Brendan's parents.
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Nolan
8/30/2014 02:35:33 am
Wow! I never knew how to make a catapult. I'm going to try!
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Nolan
8/30/2014 02:43:02 am
Maybe DeBose did something bad and his parents think he is a bad influence.
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Hannah
8/31/2014 02:41:38 am
Nolan, I agree with you. I think Brendan's family does not like Ed DeBose because, he does not like his daughter's choice in life since he likes the everyone to marry the same race as they are. Therefore, they think Ed DeBose would be a bad influence on Brendan.
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Nolan
8/30/2014 02:50:43 am
Sorry that I wrote about the catapult in the Brendan section. 😞
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Jaiden
8/30/2014 03:15:20 am
I think Brendon's mom got in a fight with Ed Debose about Mom married a black guy , and haven't spoke with Brendon's mom for a while.So he doesn't know about Brendon.
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Manasi
8/31/2014 12:02:41 am
I am thinking that Branden's mother and Grandpa got in a fight and got separated. He must be hiding from his daughter so that he can avoid talking to her.
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Rahma
9/1/2014 05:08:54 am
I agree with you Manasi because when Brendan was asking his mom questions she kept getting irritated. She also asked Brendan ''Where is all this coming from?'' he just said that he was curious about Grandpa Debose.
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ryan
9/1/2014 11:09:17 am
I agree, but maybe it was because of Brendan's mom's marriage, because it says nothing in the book about a fight but it does say something about how the dad is a different race that the mom but I do agree on the fact that they got separated.
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Hannah
8/31/2014 01:10:42 am
Ed DeBose did not like his daughter's choice of marriage since Brenden's dad is African American. When Ed DeBose was younger people married only people that were the same race. So, Brendan did not meet Ed DeBose because Ed DeBose didn't talk to Brendan's parents since he was upset with them. Brendan's parents might not even have told Ed DeBose Brendan was born.
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Jake
8/31/2014 10:16:12 am
Hannah, I agree with you. Ed DeBose did not approve of his daughter's interracial marriage.
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Rahma
9/1/2014 05:00:54 am
I think Ed Debose did not want to meet Brendan or his mom because he was mad that his daughter married an African American. That is why I think Brendan's mom got mad when he kept asking questions.
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Elijah
9/1/2014 07:26:14 am
I think Brendan hasn't seen Ed because Ed thinks that Brendan's dad was a bad choice of marriage. Proof is even if Ed was a long way away Brendan's mom would still talk about it.
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Elijah G.
9/1/2014 07:28:22 am
I think Brendan hasn't seen Ed because Ed thinks that Brendan's dad was a bad choice of marriage. Proof is even if Ed was a long way away Brendan's mom would still talk about it.
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Nicholas
9/1/2014 08:14:01 am
I think Branden have not seen ED Debose because. Maybe he was mad that his daughter married a man that was not his own race. Or him and his daughter got in a fight.
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Ryan
9/1/2014 10:49:13 am
I think Brendan hasn't seen Ed Debose because he might've been disappointed or angry that Brendan's mom didn't marry his own race because he was from a generation where you should or could only marry your own race
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Hailey
9/3/2014 05:32:20 am
Maybe Brendan's parents wanted to marry each other but wouldn't listen to Ed when he might have said no.Ed probebly thought they didn't need him.So,he didn't care for them.
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