Problems
Fear
My Father
Religion
Literary Terms
100
His mother became ill and could no longer support him.
What is Why Richard had to go to an orphans' home?
100
He found out that a boy had died in the bed in which he slept at Uncle Clark's house. That made him afraid to sleep in the bed, and Aunt Jody and Uncle Clark would not let him sleep anywhere else. He became exhausted and could not get along living there anymore.
What is fear forced Richard to ask to leave Greenwood?
100
". . . my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city -- . . . ." Chapter
What is how Richard describes his father at the end of the chapter, in retrospect?
100
She was a very religious woman who believed all pleasurable things were sinful, that one would burn in hell for enjoying anything.
What is What is Granny wants Richard to read story books?
100
A literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw actions and events as resulting from biological or natureal forces.
What is Naturalism
200
She brushed his questions off with a few bare facts. He later said, "She was notconcealing facts, but feelings, attitudes, convictions, which she did not want me to know
What is her reaction to him. ( On the trip to Arkansas, Richard becomes more aware of the separations between blacks and whites)
200
"My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread; the meaningless pain and the endless suffering. Her life set the emotional tone of my life, colored the men and women I was to meet in the future, conditioned my relation to events that had not yet happened, determined my attitude to situations and circumstances I had yet to face. A somberness of spirit that I was never to lose settled over me during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart and look upon excessive joy with suspicion, that was to make me self-conscious, that was to make me keep forever on the move, as though to escape a nameless fate seeking to overtake me."
What is the effect that Richard's mother's illness had on him?
200
Mr. Wright smiled and lied to the judge, saying he was doing all he could. The judge ruled in his favor. Richard saw the injustice and lost any respect he had had for his father. He didn't want to see his father any more.
what happened in court, and what effect it had on Richard's attitude towards his father?
200
Richard whispered to her that if he had seen an angel like Jacob had, he would believe, in God too. She misunderstood and told the preacher that Richard had seen an angel. When things got out of hand, Richard confessed that he had said "IF," and he scolded her in front of other members of her church.
What is How Granny became embarrassed in church
200
It is the difference between appearance and reality. A statement is made that impies its opposite.
What is Irony?
300
He did not know the content of the papers; he just wanted to read the magazine section of stories and to make a little money.
What is; Why did Richard sell the anti-Negro newspapers?
300
She was teaching him to stand up for himself--to fight back and survive in the real world.
What is Why Richard's mother makes him go to the store even though she knew he might be beaten again?
300
my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city -- . . . ."
What is Richard describe his father at the end of the chapter
300
He decided to go to this go to this place to talk and be with his friends.
What is Why Richard begin attending Sunday school?
300
The story of a person's life, written by that person
What is an autobiography
400
His mother had a stroke, and the children had to move in with relatives. Richard chose to live with Uncle Clark because Greenwood was the choice nearest to his mother.
What is Why Richard moved to Greenwood with Uncle Clark and Aunt Jody?
400
Why did Addie beat Richard, and what was his reaction? She had a preconceived notion that he was a bad boy--from things she had heard in the family. At school she assumed he lied to her about the nuts. When he tried to defend himself, she grew angrier. At home she tried to beat him as additional punishment for his infractions at school, but Richard refused to be beaten unjustly. He defended himself with a knife, and Addie left him alone
What is Why Addie beat Richard, and his reaction to it
400
Richard hanged the kitten. His father, in anger and trying to get some peace and quiet so he could sleep, told the boys to kill the kitten. He didn't mean it literally, but Richard did kill the kitten as a way of hitting back at his father and showing his hatred.
What is How and why Richard killed the kitten?
400
He did it out of love for his mother, not love of God. He didn't want his mother to be humiliated.
What is Why Richard finally consent to being baptized into the church?
400
His or her purpose, or goal.
What is the author's aim
500
Richard tried to sell her to a white woman, but then he refused to sell her because of his anxieties about white people. A week later the dog was run over in his own neighborhood. He then did not have the dog or the money.
What is what was ironic about Betsy's death?
500
White men shot him because he would not heed their threats. They were jealous of his flourishing liquor business.
What is ; What happened to Uncle Hoskins?
500
He was an illiterate sharecroper
Who is Nathaniel Wright
500
A Seventh Day Adventist was virtuay a white in appearance. Had eight surviving children.
Who is Granny
500
a point by point presentation of one thing as though it were another
What is an extended metaphor
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