The Story
The city in Ohio which comes together to tend the garden lot.
What is Cleveland?
The girl who started the garden because she wanted to connect with her father who died before she was born.
Kim
What does it mean if something is vacant? Give an example.
When something is vacant it is empty. One example is an empty house.
What does Kim plant?
lima beans
The government group in charge of cleaning the vacant lot.
Who is the Public Health Department?
planted tomatoes in an attempt to get his ex girlfriend back
Curtis
What does it mean to transform something? How did the community come together to transform the vacant lot?
To transform something means to change something. The community came together to transform the vacant lot into a beautiful garden.
First to see Kim in the garden
Ana
The reason many gardeners ended up getting to know each other and becoming a family in Sae Young's chapter.
What is the rainstorm?
Woman who couldn't leave her house for two years--she owns a dry cleaning business.
Sae Young
Many people considered the garden to be this ________ because it was a nice place where they could come together.
paradise
The garden helps this person gain independence and change from "a baby back to a man"
Tío Juan
Overall this person does not have a good time in the garden for many reasons, one of them being he learns the truth about who his father really is.
Virgil
school janitor who helped Ana out when she twisted her ankle
Wendell
What is a vow?
a serious promise to do something
Who does Curtis try to win back?
Lateesha
This person likes to bring people together by having conversations with them
Sam
Women who watches over and protects the garden due to her arthritis.
Florence
Working together helped the neighbors overcome their ________ and become friends.
Prejudice
Planted eggplants and became friends with people who may have judged him before getting to know him
Amir