Kim
This is what Kim planted in the vacant lot.
What are lima beans?
This is where Ana loved to be in her apartment.
What is her window?
These are examples of bad news Wendall had heard through the telephone.
What are his son was shot and his wife was in a car accident?
This is why Tio Juan was having such a difficult time communicating.
What is he didn't speak English OR Spanish; only an Indian language.
Who said it and explain what it means. Kim's chapter: "But in the vacant lot he would see me."
What is Kim said it and it means she wanted her father to notice her through her planting the lima beans in the lot?
This is the county Kim is from.
What is Vietnam?
This is what Ana used to see Kim in the vacant lot.
What are binoculars?
This is what Wendell does for a job.
What is he is a school janitor?
This is what Gonzalo's mother bought for Tio Juan.
What are packets of seeds to plant in the garden?
"School janitors take too much bossing all week to listen to an extra helping on weekends."
Who is Wendell? What is Wendell was responding to Ana telling him he had to go downstairs to water the beans.
This is the reason Kim planted something in the vacant lot.
This street was "like a cheap hotel."
What is Gibb Street?
This is why Wendell decided to plant something in the vacant lot.
What is he wanted to take control of his life?
This is an example of something Gonzalo had to help his parents with.
What is making phone calls in English?
"These new people leave when they can, like the others. I'm the only one staying. It's so. Staying and staring out this same window."
Who is Ana? What is she watches people on Gibb Street through her window and sees all of the changes in the neighborhood.
This is the job that Kim's father had in his country.
What is a farmer?
This is what Ana found when she went to the vacant lot to see what Kim was doing.
What are lima beans?
She is Wendell's friend in the same apartment building.
Who is Ana?
This is why Gonzalo thought older people got younger when they came to the U.S.
What is because they were learning a new language and everything was new.
"I finally found him standing in front of the beauty parlor, staring through the glass at a woman with a drier over her head. He must have wondered what weird planet he'd moved to."
Who is Gonzalo? What is he was talking about how his Tio Juan wandered away from their apartment and where he found him.
This is how old Kim was when her father died.
What is Kim wasn't born yet when her father died.
This is what Ana first thought about doing when she saw Kim in the vacant lot.
What is she thought about calling the police.
This is what Ana wanted Wendell to do to help Kim's plant.
What is she wanted him to water the plant.
This is where Gonzalo's family came from.
What is Guatemala?
"There's plenty about my life I can't change....but a patch of grass in this trashy lot - I can change that."
Who is Wendell? What is he was realizing that even though bad things had happened in his life, he could take some control.