Family Feuds
Two families that had the biggest feud in Harlan, Kentucky (165)
Howard vs Turner
The following excerpt is an example of what?
"Why should we get this effect with them? Why should one get it hundreds of years later? Why are these suburban-Atlanta kids acting out the ethos of the frontier?"(174)
Rhetorical Question
True or False: Northerners are more prone to violence than Southerners (173)
False
"When the area was first settled, the plateau was covered with a dense primeval forest" (161) The meaning of the word "Primeval"
Resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
Family that shot and killed the cow that wandered onto their land (162)
The Turners
Family feud on West Virginia-Kentucky Border (165)
Hatfield-McCoy
“The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys…” (161). The excerpt above is an example of
Imagery
A trigger word in Cohen and Nisbett’s experiment (171)
A**hole
"The borderers were more at home than others in this anarchic environment..." (168). The meaning of the word "anarchic"
No controlling rules or principles to give order.
"Little Bob" Turner had a shootout with this person (163)
Wix Howard
Family feud that ended in a long gun fight (165)
Martin-Tolliver
“In the early 1990’s, two psychologists at the University of Michigan- Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett- decided to conduct an experiment on the culture of honor” (170). The quote above is an example of
Allusion
The description of the bouncer in the experiment (Height and weight) (173)
6’3, 250 lbs
"The results were unequivocal" (172). The meaning of the word "unequivocal"
leaving no doubt, unambiguous
Person who died in the attack against the Howards to avenge Little Bobs death (page 163)
Will Turner
Homicides in the South are most commonly committed by (169)
Someone the victim knows
“You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops” (166). The comparison between herdsman culture and farmers culture is an example of
Juxtaposition
The difference in feet between the bouncer and the Southerners before and after being insulted in the hallway (173)
Seven feet
"Only in a culture of honor would it have occurred to the irascible gentleman that shooting someone was an appropriate response to a personal insult" (170). The meaning of the word "Irascible"
Easily angered
Quarrels happen most here because... (167)
They are public for cultural honor
Family feuds derived from (166)
Northern herdsmen who gained the “Culture of Honor” over time.
“The first settlers kept pigs and herded sheep on the hillsides, scratching out a living on small farms in the valleys” (162). The word “scratching” in the excerpt above is an example of
Idiom
True or False:
Southerners in Steve's position would want to hurt Lary (173).
True
"... the ethnographer J. K. Campbell writes of one herding culture in Greece" (167). Define "Ethnographer"
A specialist in individual peoples and cultures.
Finish the quote “violence wasn't for economic gain. It was ____. You fought over your _____ (169)
“Personal” and “honor”