Tristan Strong Themes
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
By Lauren Ayube
Tristan Strong is a seventh grader who lost his best friend Eddie in a tragic bus accident they were in together. Consumed by guilt and grief, Tristan holds tight to the one piece of Eddie that he has left: his journal. Their journal. When Tristan arrives in Alabama to spend a month with his grandparents, a creature shows up in the middle of the night and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan has no idea what adventures await him as he sets off to find the journal, and himself.
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Storyboard Description
Have students illustrate themes in Tristan Strong Punches a Hole In the Sky
Storyboard Text
- GUILT
- My name should've been Tristan Coward, or Tristan Failure, or Tristan Fake.
- Tristan feels a tremendous amount of guilt when his best friend Eddie dies in the bus accident and he does not. Tristan also feels guilty when he loses a boxing match, and feels that he has let his family down.
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