Characterization
The characterization that uses SLANT to describe a characters personality
What is indirect characterization?
The 3 themes of Black Boy
What is race, hunger, and power?
Richards education consists of
What is some formal schooling and lots of self directed reading
Richard begins fo steal because
What is to earn money to leave the South?
Voice used when we say "Richard"
What is character voice?
STEAL is
What is Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks?
“It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as white people came from the fact that many of my relatives were white-looking people. My grandmother, who was white as any white person, had never looked white to me. ”
The theme shown
What is race?
Richards relationship with granny
What is filled with conflict and hostility?
Richards favorite aunt
What is aunt Maggie?
The 3 types of Style
What is sentence length, repetition, and symbolism?
"The faint cool kiss of sensuality when dew came onto my cheeks and shins as I ran down the wet green garden paths in the early morning."
The characterization used
What is direct characterization?
"Indeed, the white brutality I had not seen was a more effective control of my behavior"
The quote shows the theme of
What is power?
Richards relationship with his mother
What is frequently conflicted, but she is still the most loving/ supporting from his home?
Richard feels- when he first comes to Chicago
frightened and bewildered
The P in PIE
What is persuade?
“I had begun to notice that my mother became irritated when I questioned her about whites and blacks, and I could not quite understand it. ”
Part of STEAL shown
What is thoughts?
“Had a black boy announced that he aspired to be a writer, he would have been unhesitatingly called crazy by his pals. Or had a black boy spoken of yearning to get a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his friends--in the boy’s own interest--would have reported his odd ambition to the white boss. ”
The theme showed is
What is racs?
Richard’s only source of encouragement when he publishes his first story in the local newspaper
What is the newspaper editor?
Richards plan when he has enough money
What is bring his mom to Memphis?
"The North symbolized to me ... a place where everything was possible."
The north symbolizes
What is a dream?
"Professor" Matthews isn’t quite as gross, but he’s even more scary: "His lips were thin and his eyelids seemed never to blink"
The part of STEAL shown
What is Looks?
The theme pro dominantly showed throughout the book
What is race?
Richards reaction after his mothers stroke
What is beginning to feel that the world is a hostile place?
The white man who tried to force a fight between Richard and Harrison
What is Olin?
The reason why Richards family treats Richard so harshly
What is Richard genuinely offends them and can be a threat to them?