Fatso
Fried dough
What is an elephant ear?
Morally upright and people who have great plans for a better world.
Who are sloppy people?
A dream house, two cars, an above-average school, and a vacation for the kids at Disneyland.
What is the "American Dream"?
A place where animals are killed for their meat.
Where did Hugh go on his fifth grade field trip?
the related similarities and differences between two things
What are points of comparison?
Most people have told me that I have never experienced this.
She is a journalist who has written articles for the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Boston Globe.
Who is Suzanne Britt?
A collection of McClain's essays published in 1986.
What is A Foot in Each World?
The place north of South Carolina.
Where did Sedaris grow up?
the use of similar grammatical structures for elements of similar importance
What is parallelism?
"fatso", "lard bucket", "Bismark", "lazy", "undisciplined", etc.
Names that Peck has been called because she is overweight.
The only thing neat in a neat person's house.
What is a trash can?
"Forget where you came from"; "You sold out"; "You gave up the revolution."; You are an Oreo."
What did her black peers say to her?
A long-term employee of the US State Department.
What is Hugh's father's job title?
class or group + points of comparison + an evaluative statement
The components of a thesis statement for a compare-and-contrast essay?
Hurtful advice that people have given to Peck over the years regarding her weight.
insensitive, wasteful, arrogant
What are the character traits of neat people?
"Whites won't believe I remain culturally different; blacks won't believe I remain culturally the same." (McClain, 1986).
What is McClain's dilemma?
While most of my friends think I led an exotic childhood, it was actually filled with danger and uncertainty.
Who is Hugh?
The following sentence stem is used to show ______ between two things.
"Similarly, "A" and "B" are __________."
What is compare?
How does Peck feel about the discrimination she faces as an overweight woman?
Though Peck claims that she has never internalized any of the insults she has suffered and is not angry over the discrimination she has endured, she obviously has been hurt by these insults and felt unloved and unwanted because of her weight.
Those people are lazy, uncaring, filthy, and irresponsible.
What are some stereotypes of sloppy people?
This quote is an example of what writing technique? "I am not comfortably middle class; I am uncomfortably middle class."
What is parallelism?
Nairobi, Cairo, Beirut, Cypress, Turkey
What are the names of the places Hugh visited on vacations with his family?
The following sentence stem is used to show ______ between two things.
"Although "A", it differs from "B" in that . . .."
What is contrast?