Vocab
Teenage Volunteer at a hospital?
What is a candy striper?
The clouds were pink, fat and hilarious looking, like the hippo ballerinas in a Disney movie.
Name the literary device.
What is a simile?
A reoccurring image, pattern, theme, or idea in a piece of literature.
What is motif?
Name of the tire shop.
What is Jesus is Lord Used Tires?
_______________ gives pennies to the kids for Halloween.
Who is Lou Ann?
You won't find ___________ on a map.
What is Pittman County?
Lavish insincere praise and compliments upon (someone), especially to further one's own interests.
What is flattered?
They aren't like plates but little catcher's mitts.
What are platelets?
A struggle between people, people and the world, people and nature, people and the environment, people and the supernatural.
What is conflict?
Car Taylor buys
What is a 55 VW Bug?
Where is Pittman County?
Barbara Kingsolver moved to ________________ and it influenced the setting in The Bean Trees.
Where is Arizona?
Dreamy crush
What is moony?
Symbol for Taylor's growth and Turtle's healing?
What are the bean trees?
The bean trees are a symbol of ______________ and _________________.
What are Taylor's growth and Turtle's healing?
200,000 lives were killed in the _____________________.
What is the Guatemalan Civil War?
Taylor's science teacher who looks like Paul McCartney.
Who is Hughes Walter?
Taylor's healing, Turtle's Cherokee heritage, and renewal.
What do the bean trees symbolize?
1818 Treaty between US government and Chickasaw Indian Nation in which the Chikasaw were forced to sell some of their land; the land purchased of what today is the state of Kentucky
What is the Jackson Purchase?
From the first moment I picked it up out of its nest of wet blanket, it attached itself to me by its little hands like roots sucking dry dirt.
Name the literary devices,
What is a metaphor and simile?
Universal/Basic idea or message that the author is trying to get across, usually, some truth about human nature.
What is theme?
Fat Irene is her daughter.
Who is Mrs. Hoge?
Names her child after Seattle Slew.
Who is Sandy?
_____________ claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Guatemalans, wiped out 440 Mayan villages and left at least 45,000 listed as missing.
What is the Guatemalan Civil War?
Uncontrolled extreme emotion
What is hysterical?
There was wet tongue of blood...
Name the literary device.
Name the character
What is a metaphor?
Who is Jolene?
The part of the story where different problems arise, leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action of a story?
S.O.B.
What is the name of Angel's bull?
Mattie's husband's name.
Who is Samuel?
Kingsolver spent her childhood here.
Where is Carlyle Kentucky?
Main character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror movie.
Who is Norman Bates?
Cashing and plowing under
What is giving up and going home?
Through whose eyes the reader sees the story
What is the point of view?
"________________ was an organized network of safe havens that sheltered refugees from Guatemala and other Central American countries.
What is the Sanctuary Movement?
Lou Ann saw a picture of Angel doing Rodeo and that he was known as ______ in his rodeo days.
Who is Dusty?
The Bean Trees celebrates the power of ___________________.
What is human connectedness?