The character, Sam, is the MAIN character, also known as THIS in ELA classes.
What is PROTAGONIST
100
This city is the setting of the novel.
What is Chicago?
100
This is the first exhibit of racism in the novel that happens directly to Sam.
What is the racist man in the hospital gift shop?
100
"On either side of them, Ty and Jerry, Father's security team, looked like twin linebacker mountains."
What is a SIMILE?
100
These two things make up the SETTING of the novel, and the two SPECIFIC PARTS ARE...
What is TIME and PLACE, and the two specific parts are what are 1968 and CHICAGO?
200
This is the MAIN character's brother, who is not doing what their father wants them to do, and whose nickname is "Stick."
Who is Steven?
200
This is the event where the MAIN character's brother was injured.
What is a demonstration/protest?
200
This is the name of the speech given by Dr. King in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
200
"Our plan to come home early had backfired completely."
What is an IDIOM?
200
This story is told by the MAIN CHARACTER, Sam, so it is told from THIS PERSPECTIVE.
What is FIRST PERSON?
300
This is the MAIN character's girlfriend, although in the beginning of the story, she is not yet, really.
Who is Maxie?
300
This is the specific name of the place where Bucky Willis worked.
What is Roy Dack's Auto Shop?
300
This is the event that gets the Black Panthers motivated, causing them to hire attorneys, cover someone's job so it's not lost, protest and attend a trial.
What is Bucky Willis's beating, arrest and trial.
300
"The man with the bottle still loomed in my mind, his sneer as sharp as the glass edges that had glinted in the sun."
What is a SIMILE?
300
This is the MAIN CONFLICT in the story, which affects ALL of the characters in the story.
What is RACISM?
400
This is the famous, real-life person with whom the MAIN character's father works, marches and protests and who is assassinated both in th e novel and in real-life.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
This is where Sam and Maxie go to testify for Bucky.
What is the court/courthouse?
400
This is the "real-life" event that happens in the novel, but also in history, that shocked the nation and sped up the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
"Rough concrete pillars stood proud above the courthouse steps, looking weathered and bored, like they were tired of carrying the weight of the law on their shoulders."
What is a SIMILE and PERSONIFICATION?
400
THIS is the conflict going on within the mind of the MAIN CHARACTER ONLY.
What is whether Sam should follow his FATHER or his BROTHER?
500
This is the MAIN character's friend, who works at a body shop and is beaten by the police because he is running and he's black.
Who is Bucky?
500
This is where Sam's brother wanted the Black Panthers to spend some of their money to provide medical care for Black people.
What is the free clinic?
500
This if the event that is the most dramatic of the novel, also known as the "CLIMAX."
What is Sam changing his mind about killing the cop who shot and killed his brother?
500
"Stick stared at me. After a moment, he grinned. 'What, you wanna bail?"
What is an IDIOM?
500
THESE are the TWO TYPES of SPECIFIC CONFLICTS: ONE affects the plot because it is able to be perceived by the five human senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch); the OTHER affects the plot because it is occurring WITHIN THE MIND of a character.
What are EXTERNAL CONFLICTS and INTERNAL CONFLICTS?