<p> Lose Now, Pay Later</p><p>Read p.95 aloud. 1. What is this part of the narrative called? </p><p>2. What have you learned about the setting? Who are the characters? What might the problem be? Make notes on your graphic organizer. Continue to add notes as we read.</p><p>Pause to read the prompt on p.96. Continue reading until the prompt on p.97. 3. What sequence of smaller events can we break this section of the story into?</p><p>4. What examples of tension or a problem can you find in this part of the narrative? </p><p>Read page 98, including the prompt: 5. What do you learn about the setting? Add it to your graphic organizer.</p><p>6. What clues help you make inferences about when the story takes place? </p><p>Continue to read until the prompt on p.101: 7. What events take place that are part of the rising action? </p><p>8. How does Deb feel about the slimmer before and after she tries it?</p><p>9. What are people told is the reason for the pinpricks? </p><p>10. What events create tension in this section? Continue to read, pausing to discuss the prompt on p.102. Finish reading the story: 11. What do you suspect that Deb doesn’t at the end of the story? </p><p>12. Is the ending a surprise?</p><p>After reading: 13. How effectively does the author, Carol Farley, use the narrative elements and form? How would you change the story if you could?</p><p>14. At what point in the story did you realize that there was going to be a surprise ending? What inferences did you make that helped you determine that?</p><p>15. In narrative, perspective—or point of view—is provided by the narrator. How would this story be different if Trevor were narrating instead of Deb?</p><p>Discussion questions:  Explain the three traps that Deb falls for and how you might have acted in her situation. </p><p> To what extent are Deb and Trinja blind to her real addiction to body image? How widespread among teens is concern over body image? </p><p> How were Deb and Trinja, and other people, manipulated? What point might the author be making about people and the way they respond to advertising and fads? </p><p> Brainstorm what might happen in a sequel to the story—what happens to Deb, Trinja, and Trevor? </p>