Vocabulary
This word means "very serious or formal in manner, behavior, or expression"
What is solemn?
Who is the mother?
This story is told from the point of view of
Who is "the oldest boy" or "the boy"
This figurative language is used to describe Hunger as its own person who affects the narrator.
What is "personification"?
This word means "to confuse someone very much"
DOUBLE POINTS
What is bewilder?
The mother gives this advice to her son when she tells him he's hungry.
What is "wait" or "wait for God to send some food"
The narrator feels this way after his mother tells him to wait for food
What is "angry" or "frustrated"
The mother uses humor with her hungry son to distract him because
What is she is trying to stay strong or she is trying not to get upset herself?
This word means "to do something bad to someone who has hurt or treated you badly to get revenge against someone"
What is retaliate?
This advice is given to the narrator by his mother after she gets a job and leaves him alone in the house all day.
What is take responsibility or take care of yourselves?
The narrator feels this way after his mother tells him he and his brother must take care of themselves.
The mother is characterized this way in the story
What is harsh or strong?
This word means "being thin and bony (as from hunger or suffering)"
What is gaunt?
The advice the mother gives her son after he returns from being beaten by the neighborhood boys.
DOUBLE POINTS
What is "stand up for yourself" or "fight for yourself"?
Before going out to buy groceries again, the narrator is afraid this will happen
What is the boys in the neighborhood will beat him again or he will be beaten again?
The author of the memoir Black Boy
Who is Robert Wright?
This word means "a loud and confused noise"
What is clamor?
The question we ask when reading a Words of the Wiser narrative.
What is "How does this advice affect the character?" or "What is the life lesson?"
At the end of the narrative, the narrator feels this after fighting back.
What is proud or accomplished or like a winner?
This excerpt is from a memoir about Robert Wright's life. This is the era he grew up in
DOUBLE POINTS
What is "The Great Depression" or the 1930s/1940s?