Vocab
This term is used to describe a person who lives on and farms land owned by someone else, like the Simmses on their 40-acre spot.
Tenant-farm
The reason everyone is coming to the Logan well.
The sibling who "speaks like a man" and refuses to bow down to the white boys.
Hammer
The name of the specific creek where the water has turned muddy and is nearly dried up.
Creek Rosa Lee
“Now God done blessed us with that water, son, and long’s I’m here, what we been blessed with, we’re gonna share.”
Mama
This phrase is used to describe Ma Rachel when she is acting confused or irrational.
Touched in the head
The physical injury that forces David to move slowly on a crutch throughout the story.
What is a broken/busted leg from falling out of a tree.
The character who attempts to grab a shotgun because she doesn't want white folks on her land.
Ma Rachel
Where Hammer asked his Papa to take him and David in order to help Joe McCallister.
The church
“They done took my name! They done took my name. They done took it, and I wants them ’way from here!”
Ma Rachel
Another word for someone who is prosperous
Wealthy or rich
How Mama persuades Sheriff Rankins to go easy on Hammer and David.
Bakes molasses bread
The cousin who "always seems to be grinning" and carries David home on his back.
Halton
The state in which the story takes place (spelt correctly).
Mississippi
"Running them off would just mean trouble... sharing water when we got plenty ain’t a good enough reason for trouble."
David
Mr. McCallister Simms used the phrase "shamed me and mine" as a way of saying that Hammer and David...
Embarrass the family
This is the specific type of work the Logan men were doing away from home to earn money for taxes.
Lumbering
The character who tries to defend the Logans' right to water their cows, though others call him "not so bright."
Joe McCallister
The name of the famous historical trail where Papa, Mitchell, and Kevin are away working.
The Natchez Trace
"Maybe one day y’all’ll find somethin’ dead floatin’ in it!"
Charlie
David says that he had this "just like Hammer did." It is a feeling of self-respect that made him feel "stung" by insults, even though he tried to stay out of trouble.
Pride
Where Halton takes Hammer to hide after the fight with Charlie. (
Papa's praying rock
The name that Ma Rachel's mother was told to call her when she couldn't call her Rachel.
Pansy
Was the setting of the well urban, suburban or rural?
Rural
“Them cows be needin’ water and God ain’t gonna smile on a body turn ’way His dumb creatures needin’ water!”
Joe McCallister