Characters
He is the protagonist of the story and at the beginning he is this age.
Who is Jody Baxter and what is 12 years old?
He skipped this and went to play in the creek instead where he built one of these.
What are chores and a flutter mill.
This is what raw milk that has sat out and thickened is called.
What is clabber?
This character said this, "Why, you leetle ol' penny-piece, you. You're good money, a'right, but hit jest don't come no smaller. Leetle ol' Penny Baxter—"
Who is Lem Forrester?
This is a type of story that shows the main character's journey through childhood to adulthood.
What is a coming of age story?
The people who lived as pioneers in the Florida Scrub represented by the Baxter family
Who are the Cracker people?
He comes to help the Baxters after Penny Baxter is made ill from this incident.
Who is Buck Forrester and what is the snake bite?
His inability to provide this amenity on the homestead for his wife makes Penny feel ashamed.
What is a well?
The word for the nuts of trees accumulated on the ground.
What is mast?
Fill in the blank. “He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be ______again.”
What is lonely?
These are the three types of conflict in a story.
What are man versus nature, man versus man, and man versus self?
A type of wild grape that grows in the Florida Scrub.
What is scuppernong or muscadine?
She is described in the following passage. “She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.”
Who is Grandma Hutto?
This passage show the signs foretold by this character of this event. "...the alligators bellowing. Bats flew in the daytime. Frogs caah-caah-caahed steadily at night. The Dominick rooster crowed in the middle of the day. The jay-birds bunched and flew back and forth together, screaming as one. Ground rattlers crawled across the clearing in the hot sunny afternoon. On the fourth day a flock of white sea-birds flew over."
Who is Penny Baxter and what is the storm?
This is a term for food or provisions that is not pronounced like it sounds and it is spelled like this.
What is victuals and what is V-I-C-T-U-A-L-S?
Complete the quote with the missing words. “This, then, was _______. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known _______, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing.”
What is hunger?
This is is a regional variation of language used by an author in the dialogue portions of the story so that readers can get a sense of how the characters sound.
What is dialect?
There a few moments where Jody witnesses rare scenes of animals behaving as they do in their natural habitat where it is compared to a human activity. The first is during the fishing trip when Penny and Jody see these majestic creatures doing this and another is when Jody sees these creatures also apparently doing this human like activity.
What are whoopin' cranes and bears and what is dancing?
He is the youngest of seven sons and physically the weakest but he is the strongest from this standpoint.
Who is Fodderwing and what is spiritual?
True or false. Penny is a conservationist and despises killing for sport.
What is true?
This is what Swivet means.
What is a fluster or panic?
Name the speaker and the subject of this passage. "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'."
Who is Jody Baxter and who is Twink Weatherby?
This term refers to how an author reveals the traits of her characters through their actions, their words, and
what other characters say about them.
What is Characterization?
During a fishing trip, Jody and Penny see these people who are hunting these animals. Penny describes them as "a people was mighty bad put upon."
Who are Minorcans and what are gophers?
He is the nemesis of Lem Forrester because of his attachment to this character.
Who is Oliver Hutto and who is Twink Weatherby?
Flag come to be orphaned when this happens to Penny.
What is when Penny is bit by the rattler and he takes the Doe's life to use her liver on his snake bite.
This is what is meant when Penny says, "I’d not be surprised was some of ’em Spanish blazes."
What are marks on a tree that show where to go on a trail?
Fill in the blanks and name the speaker.
“You've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and ____. You've seed ol' ____ at his tricks."
What is Mean and Death. Who is Penny?
This is the attitude an author takes toward her subject and it differs from mood, which refers to a reader’s response to what is written.
What is Tone?
Ma Baxter gives Jody this tea when she thinks he might have the measles.
What is mullein tea?
He grew up in an impoverished family, one of many children, and the constant malnourishment with a real name that fittingly means "Help or Helper" in Hebrew.
Who is Ezra Baxter?
The scene with the wolf cub playing with the dogs is meant to show the incongruity of the relationship between these two characters.
Who are Jody and Flag?
This is a large, rounded container, typically made of glass, with a narrow neck, used by the Forresters in making moonshine.
What is a demi-john?
Complete the quote and who it refers to. “He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as ______ ______ on a Saturday night.”
Who is Lem Forrester and who is Jody Baxter?
"Baxter's Island was a fortress ringed around with hunger" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
Someone who believes in and works to preserve their natural surroundings as good stewards is called this.
What is a conservationist?
She guards her heart by holding her love at a distance. She responds to hardships by turning inward and neglects to
show her son affection which is likely the result of having buried at least this many children.
Who is Ora Baxter and what is five children?
After Slewfoot kills the calf, Penny takes on this negative attriubte in an uncharacteristic fashion.
What is vengeful?
This is a term we discussed that is a synonym for flirtatiousness.
What is coquetry?
Name the speaker and who is being spoken to in this passage. "...the day may come when you'll know the human heart is allus the same. Sorrer strikes the same all over. Hit makes a different kind o' mark in different places. Seems to me, times, hit ain't done nothin' to you but sharpen your tongue."
Who is Penny Baxter and who is Ma Baxter or Ora Baxter?
What we call it when an author projects human qualities and attributes onto an object, animal, or idea.
What is personification?
The setting of Flag's death is in this place that held significance for them and can be compared to this human organ in terms of it's purpose on the homestead.
What is the sinkhole and what is the heart.
He lived in a secret place in Jody's "heart that had been long aching and vacant” and he represents Jody's connection to this and ultimately is sacrificed for Jody to become this.
Who is Flag and what is nature and a man?
This realization is being referred to when the author states "that was a sharper horror than if Penny had died of the snake-bite."
What is the thought that Penny went back on Jody.
A young pig is called this as opposed to a piglet.
What is a shoat?
When Jody tells Penny he didn’t mean it when he told Penny he hated him, Penny says “When I was a child, I spake as a child.” He is referencing this scripture verse.
What is 1 Corinthians 13:11?
One of the major themes in this story is the juxtaposition of a conservative Biblical lifestyle of reliance on God known as Agrarianism versus this.
What is Industrialism?
The two rivers that are near Baxter's Island.
What are the St. John's and the Ocklawaha River?