Characterization
Theme
Chapters 1-8
Chapters 9-14
MISC
100

The characterization that uses SLANT to describe a characters personality 

What is indirect characterization?

100

The 3 themes of Black Boy

What is race, hunger, and power?

100

Richards education consists of

What is some formal schooling and lots of self directed reading 

100

Richard begins fo steal because

What is to earn money to leave the South?

100

Voice used when we say "Richard" 

What is character voice?

200

STEAL is

What is Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks?

200

“It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as white people came from the fact that many of my relatives were white-looking people. My grandmother, who was white as any white person, had never looked white to me. ”

The theme shown

What is race?

200

Richards relationship with granny

What is filled with conflict and hostility?

200

Richards favorite aunt

What is aunt Maggie?

200

The 3 types of Style

What is sentence length, repetition, and symbolism? 

300

"The faint cool kiss of sensuality when dew came onto my cheeks and shins as I ran down the wet green garden paths in the early morning."

The characterization used

What is direct characterization?

300

"Indeed, the white brutality I had not seen was a more effective control of my behavior"

The quote shows the theme of

What is power?

300

Richards relationship with his mother

What is frequently conflicted, but she is still the most loving/ supporting from his home?

300

Richard feels- when he first comes to Chicago

frightened and bewildered 

300

The P in PIE

What is persuade?

400

“I had begun to notice that my mother became irritated when I questioned her about whites and blacks, and I could not quite understand it. ”

Part of STEAL shown

What is thoughts?

400

“Had a black boy announced that he aspired to be a writer, he would have been unhesitatingly called crazy by his pals. Or had a black boy spoken of yearning to get a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his friends--in the boy’s own interest--would have reported his odd ambition to the white boss. ”

The theme showed is

What is racs?

400

Richard’s only source of encouragement when he publishes his first story in the local newspaper

What is the newspaper editor?

400

Richards plan when he has enough money

What is bring his mom to Memphis?

400

"The North symbolized to me ... a place where everything was possible."

The north symbolizes 

What is a dream?

500

"Professor" Matthews isn’t quite as gross, but he’s even more scary: "His lips were thin and his eyelids seemed never to blink"

The part of STEAL shown

What is Looks?

500

The theme pro dominantly showed throughout the book

What is race?

500

Richards reaction after his mothers stroke

What is beginning to feel that the world is a hostile place?

500

The white man who tried to force a fight between Richard and Harrison

What is Olin?

500

The reason why Richards family treats Richard so harshly 

What is Richard genuinely offends them and can be a threat to them?

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