Character
This character takes care of Elwood after his parents leave him.
These discriminatory laws were just overturned around the time that Nickel Boys takes place.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is the incident that leads to Elwood's bike being broken.
What is Elwood intervening when neighborhood kids try to steal candy?
This is the incident that leads to Elwood being sent to Nickel.
What is Elwood hitching a ride in a stolen vehicle?
This place is symbolic for hope for the future.
What is Fun Town?
This is the author of The Nickel Boys
Who is Colson Whitehead?
This is the decade in which The Nickel Boys takes place.
What is the 1960s?
This is the object of humiliation for Elwood when he hung out in the hotel kitchen.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is what the authority at Nickel Academy tells Harriet when she tries to visit Elwood for the first time.
What is that Elwood is sick and that there's no more information?
This is the main authority at Nickel Academy and the person who strikes the most fear into Elwood.
Who is Maynard Spencer?
This character is the owner of the cigar shop where Elwood worked.
Who is Mr. Marconi?
This is the city in which Elwood grows up.
What is Tallahassee?
Elwood goes to this event even though Harriet told him that she doesn't want him to.
What is a civil rights protest at the movie theater?
This is how Elwood believes he will swiftly graduate from Nickel Academy.
This is the person whom Elwood writes letters to while at Nickel Academy.
Who is Mr. Hill?
This character eats soap powder to get out of doing work at Nickel.
Who is Turner?
This is where the abuse at The Nickel Academy takes place.
What is The White House?
This is the potential underlying reason why Elwood's father leaves.
What is his frustration at racism after the war?
This is what Elwood notices about the nature of the punishments at Nickel Academy.
What is their randomness or lack of sense?
This is the name that the white kids at Nickel use for "the White House."
What is the Ice Cream Factory?
This character is assigned to show Elwood around when he gets to Nickel.
Who is Desmond?
This is the dormitory that Elwood is assigned to.
What is Cleveland?
These are the ranks that the boys have to move through in order to graduate from Nickel Academy.
What are Grub, Pioneer, Explorer, and Ace?
This is what the youngest students at Nickel are referred to as.
This is the piece of legislation that disproportionately benefited white war veterans.
What is the GI Bill?