Characters
Early in the story, she expresses her fear about Ana Rosa's activity of writing.
Who is Mami?
Ana Rosa steals this item from Guario to satisfy her yearning to write.
The entire story takes place in this Caribbean country.
What is the Dominican Republic?
Ana Rosa's narration, which contains details about sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings is an example of this figurative language technique.
What is imagery?
At the start of the novel, Ana Rosa is this age.
What is 12?
Ana Rosa is emotionally closest to this sibling in her family.
Who is Guario?
The man on the mule who Ana Rosa meets one afternoon turns out to be this person.
What is her biological father?
Ana Rosa feels safest in this very specific spot near her house.
What is the gri gri tree?
When Mami tells Ana Rosa, "you are this river," she is speaking this technique of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
Ana Rosa has this many siblings.
What is 3?
Who is Angela?
The government arrives to take the villagers land to build this in its place.
What are hotels?
This is where Ana Rosa finally figures out how to dance the merengue.
What is at the beach?
Mr. Moreno is using this figurative language technique when he says that he "has bigger fish to fry."
What is idiom?
This is the Spanish word for Christmas Eve.
What is Nochebuena?
This best friend of Guario's works at Roco's Cafe with him.
Who is Angel?
The "sea monster" that Ana Rosa sees from her gri gri tree turns out to be this specific animal.
What is a humpback whale?
This is the restaurant where both Guario and Angel work.
What is Roco's Cafe?
"The bulldozers devoured everything in their paths," is an example of this figurative language technique.
What is personification?
The author is providing a sense of this when she has Ana Rosa say, "...my own future was galloping towards me like a riderless horse."
What is foreshadowing?
This government representative arrives in Ana Rosa's village, saying their land has been sold to developers.
Who is Mr. Moreno?
As he is shot by a soldier, Guario does this final gesture towards Ana Rosa.
What is he smiles?
This is the specific name of the beach where many villagers work and sell to tourists.
What is Sosua Beach?
Ana Rosa repeats the word "paper" multiple times in the stanzas of one poem for this reason.
What is to show its importance/significance to her.
This author of The Color of My Words was raised in Trinidad and the United States.
Who is Lynn Joseph?