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Searching for his roots, Perry returns to his childhood town, discovering saving others is truly a gift. His pursuit for belonging slowly leads him to reconnect with people in the town through history, quirkiness, and the straightforward pleasures of family. An example of a quirky character is Beagle whose eccentric behaviors highlight the peculiarity of the people that make this community distinctive and worth uncovering. Perry, also the author of Truck, grasps readers with his unique literary novel guiding us along his journey to help his fellow community members. Population: 485 is a refreshing mixture of condensed anecdotes touching on death and humor.

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Lit Circle Chapter 12

Today, we discussed the relevance of certain stories, because some of the stories seemed irrelevant, however, upon further examination some of the stories were more important than we originally thought. Chapter twelve discussed the importance of finding yourself, and feeling comfortable with where you are from. We found it fitting that Perry, returned to his roots in New Auburn. Considering that individuals fall back to what they are used to and what they know.

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Lit Circle Chapter 11

Friday we discussed Population: 485 with professor Krusack.  We discussed the chapter Oops and how it provides comedic relief for the reader.  We are currently working on our own side project of mapping out the chapters motifs.  This will help us to like all the ideas in the book together.  We also worked on improving the image of our blog.  On a side not we also discussed the Superhero image of a firefighter and how people expect anyone in a uniform to be perfect.  We found this classification to be unfair.

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The author Michael Perry discusses one of his life experiences in Population: 485

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Lit Circle Chapter 10

Today in class we discussed power struggles. Our group decided that there is not a power struggle in our book. We then  went on to talk about the book cover design, discussed the book with the summary and the discussion questions. In particular we talked about the reoccurring theme of death in this chapter and the book as a whole. We also planned some meetings outside of class to work on our project.

Lit Circle Chapters 8-9

Today we discussed the format of the blog a lot.  We covered the information from the book and analyze several topics including the multiple references to Perry's pager, the strange deaths that are portrayed and their significance, and how Perry's training often wasn't up to level it needed to be to save patients that were in vital danger.  Perry speaks about the awful position he is put in when he knows someone is dead but their family hasn't been informed yet.  This is our third entry and we are already half way done so for the rest of our blog we will be analyzing each chapter piece by piece.

Lit Circle Chapters 6-7

Today, we discussed in great detail the significance of “Running The Loop” chapter, through the discussion questions. We also discussed relationships and building bonds with Perry’s own family and the individuals in the community. Our group also worked on making the blog, posting everything that we have done thus far.  We continue to be intrigued by this book and look forward to reading more of his stories. 

Lit Circle for Chapters 3- 5

As we continued reading on, we are getting used to his writing style. In this Lit Circle, we discussed his occupation as an EMT. We were all very confused on his organization of his stories, due to the lack of dates on his stories. If dates had been present it would have been easier to put the stories into a chronological order.   However, as we continue reading the book it is becoming easier to distinguish the time frame of the story as we become more accustomed to Perry’s writing style.

Lit Circle for Chapters 1-2

Today, we were just getting started. However the first story really captured our attention. We were confused at the structure and the formatting of the novel. But we are all very excited to continue reading on and discover more of this book. We have all decided that the Beagle is the most intriguing part of the book thus far.

Throughout the ages, individuals have sought to answer the world's toughest problems such as transportation, communication, and governmental limitations. Now, a group of people have come together to answer a new question, what is the hidden meaning behind Population: 485. Questions such as, why are there only 485 people. Alternatively, there was a disease, which overran the population leaving only 485 individuals to repopulate the earth. On the other hand, it is the census numbers for a northern Wisconsin Town which the author of the book will base the story. This critic believes that Mitchell, Kenzie, Moira and Stephen will be able to answer this quesiton and many more through their analytical brain power, after reading the book Population: 485 written by Michael Perry. This blog will display our findings in Perry's book in an informative and educational manner.