Terms and Vocabulary
A pecan candy treat.
What is praline.
y'all
What is "you all"?
He is the only resident of Marshall who stood up to fix in the past.
Who is Mathu?
Turnip greens
What is Gran Mon cooking in the opening chapter?
What does Miss Merle think of Candy's confession?
The point of view from which a narrative it told (e.g., first person, etc.).
What is perspective?
teef
What is "teeth"?
She is trying to protect a man and a community that helped to raise her and whom she loves.
Who is Candy?
To tell the old men of Marshall to gather at Mathu's house.
What is the news that Candy wants Snookum to spread?
She believes that their tractors are tearing up her family's land.
What does Bea think about the Cajuns and their use of her family's land?
The process of forming a complex and combined language that is separate and passed through generations.
What is creolization?
'cause
What is "because"?
Who was Dirty Red?
Fix
Who is coming now that Beau is dead, according to Janey?
Calvin Harrison who played halfback and Gilbert Boutan who played fullback at LSU?
Who were Salt and Pepper?
"a member of any of the largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana formed by descendants of French Canadians, specaking an archaic form of French (OED)."
What is a cajun?
What is "small"?
His brother, Silas, was the last sharecropper, and Cajuns beat him for being good at sharecropping.
Who was Tucker?
That she killed Beau Boutan.
What does Candy confess?
A late-night television show that depicted fantastical or horror story lines and a Flemish artist who depicted humans with bulging eyes that stared off into the distance. Sully associates both of these with the scene at Marshall Plantation.
What was the Twilight Zone and Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
The 1896 case, arising over the desegregation of railroad cars in Louisiana. The Supreme Court case resulted in the social practice of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What is "over there in the distance"?
She was upset that Beau leased the plantation, where her ancestors had worked as slaves.
Who is Cherry?
She drove recklessly to the quarters and told Janey to pray.
How does Miss Merle react to receiving the news of Beau's death from Janey?
That all surviving participants are on probation and cannot carry weapons for a period.
What is the verdict of the final trial?