Dust Bowl
What are TWO causes of the dust bowl?
Flat land / drought / farming practices / high temperatures
Who is the narrator?
Billie Jo Kelby
Why is Billie Jo named Billie Jo?
Daddy wanted a boy
Simile "Real Snow" page 90.
Like after a fever.
What does the PIANO symbolize?
It represents Billie Jo's mom / their relationship / Billie Jo's passion for life
Name 2 states effected by the dust.
Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico
What are Ma and Daddy's real names?
Pol and Bayard
What sustains Billie Jo's spirits at the beginning of the book?
playing the piano!
Metaphor "Midnight Truth" Page 195.
Digging his own grave. He calls it a pond.
What does the POND symbolize?
Daddy's love for Ma
What critter flocked together and destroyed Ma's apple trees?
Grasshoppers
Who does Billie Jo have a crush on?
Mad Dog Craddock
Where do many people begin walking to in search of a better future?
California / West
'Personification "Help From Uncle Sam" 172-173
Invitation glowering down on me
What do the APPLE TREES symbolize?
Ma's love / her children / Ma's life / Ma / hope
What crop did farmers keep growing during the beginning of the Dust Bowl? Hint: it was what Billie Jo's dad kept hoping to grow, and what Ma said they should "give up on."
Wheat
Who is Billie Jo's teacher?
Miss Freeland or Arley Wanderdale
What does Billie Jo name her baby brother, when she speaks up for Pa? Why?
Franklin, after the President
Objectification "Dance Revue" Page 91.
Poor Motherless Thing.
What does it mean when the grasshoppers destroy the apple trees?
Hope is destroyed / Ma is gone
Name at least 1 way that the New Deal suggested repairing land after the Dust Bowl
Plant trees / find new ways to farm / plant varying crops / find work elsewhere to buy new seed
Who is Billie Jo's friend who moves away to get out of the dust at the beginning of the book?
Livie Killian
milk, biscuits, a haircut, a bath, a change of clothes, work, Daddy's old overalls
Alliteration "Rains Gift" Page 180.
Singing in his saddle
What does the phrase "out of the dust" mean literally AND figuratively to Billie Jo?
Literally - getting physically out of the dust
Figuratively - overcoming obstacles including dust