This animal symbol frequently appears in times of stress, like the boys with bb guns or the speeding car.
A bird
100
Teenagers don't qualify as people
Ari
100
This is where Ari and Dante meet
The pool
100
Dante's father's job is...
A college professor
100
The State bird of Minnesota
The loon
200
For Ari, this a symbol of freedom, but it just worries Ari's mother
Ari's car
200
Dante is worried that because he is light skinned and doesn't speak Spanish, people won't think he is ______ enough
Mexican
200
This is where Dante moves about halfway through the book
Chicago
200
This is Ari's brothers name
Bernardo
200
Ms. Pederson travelled to this state over the summer.
Tennessee
300
This topic is present throughout the entire text, and focuses on what it means to be a good man.
Masculinity
300
"Someday, I’m going to discover all the secrets of the universe."
Dante
300
This is why Ari's brother is in prison
He murdered a transvestite prostitute
300
This character 'dated' Ari briefly, but disappeared. Ari later found out she was dating a gang member
Ileana
300
This superhero doesn't actually have any super powers.
Batman
400
The term for the literary device when a character remembers important events from the past- like, for example, Ari remembering being with his older brother, or happy memories of his Aunt Ophelia
flashback
400
"And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn’t stand my own cruelty."
Ari
400
This is why Ari beats up Julian
Revenge for Dante being hurt
400
Ari is named after this figure, who is famous for this
Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher
400
The author of the previous book that we read
Octavia Butler
500
The book is set in this decade.
The 1980s
500
"It is too a real sport. I’m real. You’re real. The tennis shoes are real. The street is real. And the rules we establish- they’re real too. What more do you want?"
Dante
500
Ari and his father's relationship suffers in this way, because of his father's memories of this war.
The Vietnam war, and never feeling close to his son/ being distant or unreachable