Wednesday 12 November 2014

Chapter 18: The Dragon Hoard

Answer the questions below by commenting on this post.



1. Why did Matt feel sick? Use evidence from the book to support your answer. Do you have any guesses as to why Matt is feeling sick?
2. What has happened to El Patron?
3. What is a piggyback donor? Why couldn't the doctor's perform a full heart transplant?
4.What brings back the colour to El Patron's cheeks?
5. What is a dragon hoard? Does it make the dragon happy? Would it make you happy?


7 comments:

  1. 1. He probably felt sick because of any toxic chemicals he ingested while at eejit pens. I think this because in the book, Matt though it might have been because of the eejit pens, because he started feeling sick right after being there.
    2. El Patrón had a heart attack, but did not die. Matt is rushed to the hospital, probably because El Patrón wanted to see him.
    3. A piggyback donor is when they put a heart next to another, to help regulate a beat. They do this when the donor heart is too small to do the job on its own.
    4. When Matt suggests that El Patrón should give some of his things away to people who needed it, El Patrón became furious. He says that he worked too hard to gain all of his wealth, and there is no way he would ever let it go. Tam Lin said it was a clever move on Matt’s part, bringing a little bit of life back to him.
    5. A dragon’s hoard is a pile of all the gold a dragon has ever stolen, that he keeps in a cave. The dragon sleeps on it, and if anything is stolen, the dragon will know about it and will burn the person who tried to steal from him. It probably makes him happy, guarding all that he has worked for his entire life, but I wouldn’t like doing that. It would be pointless having all of that wealth and not doing anything useful with it.

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  2. 1. I think Matt is feeling sick from the dead air at the eejit pens. I think this because he felt very sick and dizzy while he was at the eejit pens and he really didn't feel well.
    2. El Patron has had a heart attack but he is not dead yet. Matt is taken to the hospital because El Patron wanted to see him.
    3. A piggyback transplant is when they take a donor heart and put it next to his to regulate the heartbeat. However, the donor heart was too small to do the job.
    4. Matt brings color back to El Patron's face by suggesting that he give some of his treasures away to some people who need actually need it. El Patron then becomes extremely mad to the thought of this idea because he thinks he has worked too hard to give it away.
    5. A dragon's hoard is a massive pile of gold that the dragon has stolen throughout its life. It makes the dragon very happy and he sleeps on it. A dragon hoard would make me very happy because I could sleep on a big pile of gold every single night which would make me feel very important and proud.

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  3. 1.Matt was probably sick because he went to the eejits house and there was a lot of chemicals in the air so he probably took some in when he was there.I think this because Tam Lin said that there is a lot of chemicals in the water.
    2.El Patron did not die but he did have heart attack. El Patron was not acting normal, Matt spent a lot of time with El Patron because of El Patrons condition.
    3.A piggy back donor is when they put two hearts beside each other to compare beats. This is to test if the donors heart is good enough to go to the other person.
    4.the thing that brings back the rose in El Patrons cheeks is when Matt said that he should give things away. Tam Lin was happy because Tam Lin was taking it to easy on El Patron he said that he needed that.
    5.A dragon hoard is a dragon that sits on a lot of gold, all the gold he has. Then what people try to do is steel it if even one piece is stolen the dragon will know. Then when you take a piece the dragon wakes up and then he kills you. This probably would make the dragon happy because he is teaching the man or women a lesson. This would not make me happy because I would be dead. I would only be happy if i got the gold.

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  4. 1) Matt felt sick from the air st the eejit pens. it said " he felt sick from the air at the eejit pens. I also think that he is felling sick because of all the time he was under the farm patrols boot, so he couldn't breath properly
    2) El patron had a heart attack. Matt was then rushed to the hospital because el patron wanted to see him.
    3) A piggyback transfer is when they put a small heart in el patrons heart to help it be stable. They could'nt do a full transplant because the donor heart was to small.
    4) This all happened when matt suggested to El patron to give things away. El patron was furious and was saying that also of people that gave things away were not as rich as he was, and was saying that he worked to hard to just give things away to people.
    5) a dragon hoard is when you keep all your riches treasures and wealth in a cave then he sleeps on his hoard.When something is stolen the dragon knows about it and then will kill the person who stole from it. As tam Lin says "I suppose it does, what other pleases can a creature whose life consists on making everyone else misrible"

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  5. 1: Matt probably felt sick because of the "dead air" near the eejit pens. The lack of oxygen can cause you to become nauseated, so it is most likely the cause.
    2: El Patron's heart has failed, so he needs a new one.
    3: It is when you use a smaller heart to help kick start a larger one and keep it going. They couldn't perform a full transplant because Matt wasn't there to donate his, and the heart that El Patron was given was to small to fully take over.
    4: The colour comes back to El Patron's cheeks when Matt suggests giving away some of his dragon's hoard.
    5: A dragon's hoard is the pile of treasure that a dragon hoards to its self. Dragons are supposedly very possessive and selfish and keep everything to themselves to stay happy. If I was as rich as El Patron I would have no problem sharing some of it with the needy, but El Patron is very selfish and hoards it all to himself.

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  6. 1. He felt sick felt sick from the smell of the eejit's building, he didn't like the way they were treated. He thought that those two farm control body guards had a scary look in their eyes unlike Tam Lin.
    2. El Patron was very sick, El Patron had a heart attack. This mad Matt very sick and he threw up.
    3. This is when they take a donor heart and put it next to another heart to regulate the beats but this donor's heart was to small to help El Patron.
    4. Matt had suggested to give things away which made El Patron really mad and he got up. He said I worked so hard to become rich and you say give it all away. Tam Lin said it was very smart of Matt to bring back some life in El Patron.
    5. It is when a dragon steals a lot of gold and sleeps on it. This person becomes really rich which makes him really powerful which this dragon lives off of and if someone were steal even a little bit of it, the dragon would get someone to kill because of all the power this dragon has. In this case, the dragon is El Patron.

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  7. 1. Matt felt sick because of when he went to the eejits pen. And the eejits pen has really bad and polluted air. I also think he feels sick from nerves because he found out that El Patrón had a stroke and now he wasn’t doing very well.
    2. El Patrón had a stroke
    3. A piggyback donor is when the put the donors heat next to his so his heat stays at a regular heartbeat. The doctors couldn’t preform a full heart transplant because the donors heart was too small to do the job by its self.
    4. El Patrón gets the colour back in his cheeks when Matt suggests that El Patrón give some of his things away because Saint Francis lived a long time and maybe that would help El Patrón live longer.
    5. A dragon hoard is a dragon that is very wealthy and at night he sleeps on all of his treasures. Tam Lin said that he doesn’t know but he was guessing that it would because he is making other people miserable. I don’t think it would make me happy because I am not a mean person.

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