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Why does Beth leave Ordinary People?
Beth packs her things to leave Calvin and Conrad. She claims she is leaving because she can’t stand the way Calvin looks at her.
What grade is Conrad in in Ordinary People?
11th grade
They chat as they drive about schoolwork and tests, and we learn that Conrad is currently repeating the 11th grade after failing to take any finals the previous year. They drive past a girl named Jeannine Pratt, who is relatively new at the school because her parents moved to Lake Forest only the previous year.
What reason does Conrad give Burger to explain why he hasn’t told his mother he quit the swim team?
That afternoon, in his session with Berger, Conrad says that he has not yet told his father about quitting swimming because he does not want his father to worry.
What is the setting of novel Ordinary People?
Ordinary People is set in Lake Forest, Illinois, during the 1970s. The action focuses on the Jarrett family–Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the action of the book begins, there was a second Jarrett son–Buck–who was killed in a boating accident over a year before the novel begins.
What was the point of Ordinary People?
Ordinary People illustrates the idea that humans always undergo moments of experience, many of which we do not even understand until we look back on them from the future. Many of the moments portrayed in the novel seem to show that the present is a blur that we do not really understand until it has become the past.
When did Conrad quit the swim team?
Chapter 10 When Stillman calls him a “flake,” Lazenby and Van Buren defend Conrad. Disgusted by them, Conrad goes to Coach Salan and quits the team.
What effect does Conrad’s meeting with Karen have on him?
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| A | B |
|---|---|
| What effect does Conrad’s meeting with Karen have on him? | He feels ashamed he is seeing a doctor,he is mad at her because she doesn’t need him. |
| Why does Conrad resist Bergers suggestion that he drop a course or 2? | Because he is behind already. |
Who is it that Conrad realizes he has to forgive?
Conrad then feels a revelation as it occurs to him that perhaps he should forgive him self rather than wait for Beth to forgive him. Berger tells Conrad to recognize her limitations. He suggests that the suicide attempt may have been an effort on the part of Conrad to one-up his mother.