Sections 1 & 2
This is the number of weeks running a customer had to default to lose their policies.
What is two weeks?
This is why Vesta Lotte Battle did not receive any more help from her daughter from Detroit.
What is Pearl (her daughter) had died?
This is what Jerry resists at first when he goes to Lila's funeral.
What is sing/move to the music?
The type of characterization when the character trait is directly state about or by the character.
What is direct characterization?
The type of figurative language is used in the following quote:
"The Wedgwood cup, week to week, healed like a stupid perfect little garden vegetable on her second kitchen table."
What is a simile?
This is what Jerry sold before starting to work for Windlass Funerary Eventualities.
What is encyclopedias or a vegetable cutter?
This is how Jerry felt after he gave up his non-paying customers to Sam.
What is relieved?
This is what Jerry does in a desperate moment of guilt at the funeral at the baptist church.
What is donate his money and car?
This is the type of characterization found in the following quote:
"Locally I was one of the first. I considered myself something of a pacesetter."
What is direct?
The type of figurative language is used in the following quote:
"'Soon as some next-of-kin comes in here with the legal death certificate, I pay off like clockwork.""
What is an idiom?
Instead of calling him by his name, his customers called Jerry this.
What is "Assurance"?
Sam calls Jerry out and this is what happens during a meeting in this section of the text.
What is he gives up his non-payers/customers that have defaulted?
This is the reason that Jerry goes to the funeral at the Free-Will Afro-Baptist Church.
What is his guilt about missing Vesta Lotte Battle's funeral?
This is the type of characterization found in the following quote:
"I knew that if I walked up to any of the dry people on their cody porches and asked for help, I'd get help. That was the deal. But I couldn't ask. I was too young. a man, too care-proud to be broken down on a street of walkers..."
What is direct?
The type of figurative language is used in the following quote:
"'Buddy? Something's off, right? College material like you, and with bags down to here.'"
What is hyperbole or idiom?
This is the reason Vesta Lotte Battle didn't feel like she owed Jerry when he started paying for her.
What is she never asked him to?
This it the individual's funeral that Jerry attends when the neighbor kids shun him and ignore him.
Who is Pearl's/Mrs. Battle's daughter?
This is who the old white lady was to Lila.
What is her employer?
This is the type of characterization found in the following quote:
"Why'd I settled for their nipping at me? Why hadn't I properly defended myself?"
What is indirect?
This type of figurative language is being used in the following example:
"An empty hearse bloomed big ostrich plumes and small American flags from either silver fender."
What is a metaphor?
This is the reason Vesta Lotte Battle did not know how old she was.
What is the records burnt in a fire?
This is what Jerry does at the end of the section out of guilt for having missed Vesta Lotte Battle's funeral.
What is he picks a random funeral to go to?
Jerry made a lot of his later fortune because he invented something for this type of machine, so that they didn't have to buy a new coin slot mechanism every time they changed the price.
What is a washing machine or dryer?
This is a character or personality trait that this characterization give Vesta Lotte Battle:
"Only stubborn habits keep you moving. Like this making tea. I watched her hands. They went right to each decanter, no nonsense, no waste."
What is deliberate, careful, experienced? (Answers may vary)
Jerry means this in the following idiom:
"My wife says: for somebody like me, somebody with a strong head for facts, it's even more important to empty out that head from time to time. So I am okay? Clearing the books."
What is trying to get over his guilt/getting the story off of his chest?