Symbols
The Statue of Liberty (Lady Liberty) is used to symbolize this
What is hope?
¨Pain rolled off him like rain from a slate roof¨(Page 98)
What is a simile?
The male authority figure who attempts to persuade Griff to throw the fight
Who is Superintendent Spencer?
(Page 102-103)
The round that Griff believed it was when he won the fight
What is the second round?
(Page 114)
Name of student who overhears the conversation between Griff and Spencer
Who is Turner?
(Page 102)
These were used to symbolize injustice and corruption
What are the iron chains?
(Page 114)
¨All boxing is fixed,¨ said Elwood.
¨Crooked as a country preacher,¨ Turner added.
What is a metaphor?
(Page 106)
Number of nights in which the fight was split up
What is two nights?
(Page 106)
Griffʼs raised arm was compared to this
What is Lady Libertyʼs torch?
(Page 101)
The name of the boy who sits with Elwood and Turner
Who is Jaimie?
(Page 111)
¨Wispy gray figures twirled in the overhead light, living ghosts,¨ (111).
What is a metaphor?
Nickname given to Big Chet
What is their Great White Hope?
(Page 108)
Number of years it took the state of Florida to find Griffʼs body
What is fifty years?
(Page 114)
The word that Turner had returned to when describing Elwood
What is sturdy?
(Page 103)
¨He tripped them...the boys rooted for Griff¨
What is repetition and juxtaposition?
(Page 97)
Terry ¨Doc¨ Burns, the last white champion, was sent to Nickel for this
What is strangling the neighborʼs chickens?
(Page 98)
School subject that Elwood supposed Griff never had been good at
What is arithmetic?
(Page 114)
Turner would nap in this place
What is the warehouse loft?
(Page 101-102)
¨It was Spencer. It was Spencer and it was Griff and it was all the parents who let their children end up here. It was people,¨ (105).
What is anaphora?
Axel Parks, the most recent champion, was accused of this in order to make sure he would not graduate before the fight
What is stealing apples?
(Page 98)
Reason that Griff was excused from his kitchen shift since Labor Day
What is to train?
Turner was jealous of Elwood because of this
What is his grandmother visited?
(Page 105)