Lucky Charms
"Biting the hand that feeds you...."
metaphor
Look out there Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as live and the family survives, you never have to.
Papa
As the children walked to school in the mud and rain, why do they continually look over their shoulders?
They are afraid they will be sparyed once more by the white school bus.
Mr. Granger stood to go, a smile creeping smugly over his lips as if he knew a secret but refused to tell.
forshadowing
formidable
fearful looking
indignant
showing displeasure
The racist store owner who are responsible for burning the Berry brothers.
The Wallaces
In early chapters, Cassie has told us that when there is trouble Papa, unlike Uncle Hammer, does not lose his temper but thinks through the problem. Why does he not do that now?
Papa rubbed his mustache and looked up at the trees standing like sentinels on the edge of the hollow, listening.
simile/personification
haggard
weary looking
interminable
never ending
Got me better friends than yall! They give me things and treat me like I am a man...and they're white too...
Tj
Why does Harlen Granger order the mob to give Tj to the sheriff and to start fighting the fire?
Granger knows the fire is heading to his land so he wants to put a stop to it so he doesn't lose any of his belongings.
The man was a human tree in height, towering high above Papa's six feet two inches
metaphor
admonished
cautioned
pondered
thought about
young black girl who doesn't quite understand nor except racial predejudicies
Cassie
What news does Mr. Jamison bring and what will this mean for Tj?
Tj will be thrown in jail or be apart of the chain gang. (hung) This mean Tj will most likely die.
In the ripening fields, the drying cotton and corn stretched tiredly skyward awaiting the coolness of rain that occasionally threatened but didn't come, and the land took on a baked, brown look.
personification
resigned
to give up
oblivious
unaware
You think my brother dies and i got my leg half blown off in the German war to have some red-neck knock around anytime it suits him?
Mr. Jamison
Tj longs for the pearl handed gun in the mercantile store. Why?
Tj believes it will protect him and that nobody would want to be near him.
I got this gut feeling it ain't over yet. It's too easy.
Forshadowing
condescending
pretending one is equal to a supposed inferior