Chapter 6 Into the rain forest

Task: Befor you read chapter 6 predict what Alex tells Tom when he meets him for the first time after16 years.

Alex is very excited and surprised if he see his father .

Because of this,in my opinion would Alex speak in a diffident way to his father .
They would talk at the beginnig very sparsely and quietly.
Maybe Alex ask his father why he never contact his son and both of them would be more reserved about their relationship.

Task²: After reading chapter 6 what did Alex say? Where you right? Give evidence from the text.

After a greeting Tom began to be very nervous I think , because he wants to impress his son with making jokes and laughing a lot .Alex became very angry and he wanted to know why his dad don´t contact his son(p.31 l 23-27) and he began to cry (p32 l 2).
The way I see it, is Alex very disappointed about the reaction of his dad.

I was very shocked that Tom only said that he is very sorry to left Alex and his mother and that he got it very wrong (p 32 l 9).
After this little argument Alex felt somehow that he had lost a father , but found a friend.
If I was Alex I would feel very sad about this result.

I think I was right about Alex´ beginnig to talk with his father why he left their (first) family.