Character Identification
This character struggles to navigate between their personal identity and social identity until they decide for themselves that they can be whomever they choose to be
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
The process of abandoning your culture to be accepted by the dominant culture. Can be forced or self-imposed.
What is assimilation?
A feeling of being accepted, safe, and valued in a group or place
What is belonging?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
A comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
What was the name of the actual avenue in Chicago that inspired Cisnero's writing that she did not want to use for fear that it would make people think of something else?
What is Campbell St?
What does Esperanza want to change her name to?
What is Zeze the X?
This character struggles with the desire to assimilate to American culture as their lived experiences are simply too different from the lives of their peers
Who is Qian?
How you see yourself
How others see you or define you
What is social identity?
When a writer assigns human like qualities to inanimate objects
What is personification?
A device that is used to express sound in writing
What is onomatopoeia?
What is Ponyboy's middle name?
What is Michael?
This person is Ponyboy's close friend who dies at the hands of the police, often confused with Ponyboy's older brother due to similar sounding names.
Who is Dally?
These characters use writing as a means of finding their voice and defining themselves in a world where they otherwise would not know how to
Who are Esperanza, Ponyboy and Richard?
When you are shaped by your natural traits and inner workings
What is your nature?
When you are shaped by the surrounding environment and your lived experiences
What is nurture?
A major exaggeration used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
A literary device that helps paint a picture in your mind.
What is imagery?
What is the name of the poem that serves as the prologue to A Raisin in the Sun and who is it by?
What is "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?
What real life discriminatory housing practice inspired Hansberry's play?
What is redlining?
This character did not want their eggs scrambled and damned all the eggs there ever was when they got upset about something else
Who is Walter Lee Younger?
The experience of viewing oneself through the eyes of others. Unique to marginalized people's experiences.
What is Double Consciousness?
The experience of being pushed to the edges of society, not being treated equally to others and experiencing oppression
What is marginalization?
The intentional use of repetition of a sound in writing
What is alliteration?
When an object is used to represent a particular idea or theme
What is symbolism?
What is the historical context of China in the 1960s that forces Qian's family to flee the country?
What is the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
True Son lived with which indigenous American tribe?
Who are the Lenape people?
These characters navigate life in search of themselves and seek to understand who they are.
Who are all the protagonists from the books we have read?
The process of adapting to a new culture while still keeping parts of your original culture
What is acculturation?
A term describing the ways aspects of our identity overlap and impact our lived experience.
What is Intersectionality?
The intentional positioning of two opposing ideas or images to highlight tension or make a point
What is juxtaposition?
A recurring symbol in a text that alludes to a theme or represents a deeper message
What is a motif?
This motif shows up in the final few vignettes of The House on Mango Street representing longing, women's desires for freedom and observation
What are windows?
Which book is the oldest book that we have read and when was it published?
What is Black Boy in 1945?