Dave always seems to be defending himself and Toph. "We are not spoiled and lazy." The collective pronoun 'we' suggests that Dave feels he has to speak for Toph. Also the fact that he uses the word and instead of or implies that people have preconceived ideas about the two of them.
Then again things could change quickly." The tone is very chatty, it seems like Dave is just talking about life in general, since his parents died all he has known is change.
"I cannot in my wildest fantasies see myself making it past fifty or fifty five." Dave isn't very optimistic since his parents died, he always thinks he is going to follow after them. Also the fact that the tone is so casual suggests that he has been through so much that the idea of death no longer worries him.
Good quotes. Make sure you always use at least two (3 or 4 is better) terms to analyse how meaning is made in each of the quotes and be tentative about what they might convey to the reader, giving alternative interpretations e.g. we might read Dave's tone as casual from the ironic joke on his syle - the superlative in "wildest fantasies" is humourous as his fantasies are extrememly wild e.g. he and Toph saving themselves by timed jumps out of a falling car, Stephen as a psychopath etc. However if he "cannot" imagine living, even in his fantasies, this is a very bleak outlook and the negative, enhanced by our knowledge of his obsession and with terror of death/illness/dying that threads through the memoir, gives us the sense that Dave's message is one of his inability to be positive about his future; readers may be struck by how unrealsitic that is, given our knowledge of his future as a successful writer with the wisdom to relfect on these fears and maybe teach a reader to have more hope for the future.
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