LI: To show our understanding of a text using different sentence structures to create mood and character ideas.
The secret slipped. Gretel narrowed her eyes suspiciously. Bruno felt his face grow hot with dread and despair, so he quickly invented a desperate lie. Although he knew it was incredibly wrong to deny his new best friend, he claimed that Shmuel was just an imaginary companion. The suffocating weight of his own betrayal settled deep down into his stomach.
Pure agonizing guilt. “Is he a real boy or not?” Gretel demanded. The heavy tension in the bedroom offered him no comfort. How could he have been so stupidly careless with Shmuel’s safety? He swallowed his fear, forced a nervous laugh, and insisted it was all an act. He realized that protecting his new best friend meant denying his existence.