Characters
This is the name of the main character and narrator of Barrio Boy
Who is Ernesto Galarza?
Barrio Boy begins in this small town, where Ernesto spends his early childhood.
What is Jalcocotan?
The Mexican Revolution began in this year.
What is 1910?
This type of comparison uses "like" or "as."
What is simile?
The type of conflict that has characters fight against the world they live in. The character struggles with the rules and traditions.
What is Man vs. Society?
The first city that Ernesto's family moved to after the Mexican revolution started.
What is Tepic?
TRUE OR FALSE: The village of Jalcocotan is located in the Sierra Madre de Nayarit mountain range.
What is True.
This theme/concepts highlights the challenges of moving and adapting to a new country.
What is migration?
The time and place of the action in the story.
What is setting?
When a character’s traits are revealed through their actions, speech, or thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
Many families, like Ernesto’s, fled Mexico during the revolution to escape this.
What is violence and instability?
IDENTIFY:
"We heard the patrols ride by our vecindad, their mounts clopping along the dark streets, theirs sabers clinking." (Pg. 98)
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
Ernesto does this on Friday afternoons in Mazatlan.
Who is helping at the sidewalk restaurant serving pozole?
The way the superintendant communicated with the railroad workers.
What is a mix of English and Spanish?
The city that Ernesto's family will eventually move to as we continue in the story.
What is Sacramento?
The excitement in the Jalcocotan about Halley's comet anticipate this war.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
IDENTIFY: "Just back of the cowcatcher a cylinder spit long feathers of live steam, as if the locomotive were hissing at the people to keep away." (pg. 110)
What is personification?
What is the gunfire from below the trestle they were crossing?
The way Uncle Jose announced he had a lot of money when he came home with his paycheck.
What is "I am standing in water, and it comes up to here" (In Spanish: "Hasta aqui me llega el agua.")
Casa Redonda was located in this city near Mazatlan.
What is Urias?
One major cause of the revolution was the long and unfair rule of this president.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
The family moved to Acaponeta for this reason.
What is the written letter from Uncle Gustavo.