5D+Tuck+Prologue

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__=
 * 1) ===These are the strange and __breathless days, the dog days__, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after. //The author is describing the extremely hot days of summer when the temperature is so high that it almost feels difficult to breath.//===
 * 2) ===The wood was at the center, the __hub of the wheel__. //The hub of the wheel is the center of the wheel where all the spokes meet.//===

[[image:wheel_hub.jpg width="133" height="116" caption="Wheel hub"]]
=__Vocabulary:__ balmy, smear=

=__Question # 1:__ If you could live forever, staying at the age that you are now, would you choose to live forever? Why or why not?= =**__Question #2:__ In the prologue, the author describes three things that happen on one day and seem unrelated. What are those three things?**=

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