Quotes from HOMS
“The house on mangos street is ours, and we don't have to pay rent to anybody.”
esperanza
“Eat your eggs, they're getting cold”
Ruth
"My hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands."
Personification
Palmers skin success
Revolt of Evil Fairies
WHO WROTE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
EDGAR ALLEN POE
my papa's hair is like a broom, all up in the air. And me, my hair is lazy.
esperanza
esperanza
“I'm a volcano. I'm a giant, and I'm surrounded by ants!”
Walter
“I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.”
Metaphor
Catacombs
The Cask of Amontillado
Who was the only male author of the short stories we read?
Ted poston
Those kinds of girls, those girls are the ones that go into alleys. Lois who can't tie her shoes. Where does he take her?”
mama
“Girl, you better start eating and looking after yourself better. You almost thin as Travis!”
Mama
“Goodnight, Prometheus."
Allusion
Eggs
Raisin in the Sun
WHAT AUTHOR WROTE ABOUT SEGREGATION
TED POSTON
She says, "I am the great great grand cousin of the queen of France.”
Cathy
“Well – it’s what you might call a sort of welcoming committee, I guess. I mean they, we – I’m the chairman of the committee”
Mr. Linder
"the sick and sometimes the sickness.”
Alliteration
Light
Born Bad a raisin in the sun
What author is blind in one eye?
Alice Walker
that if she stays here next year, she's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are”
marin
“I also see that everybody thinks it’s all right for Mama to be a tyrant. But all the tyranny in the world will never put a God in the heavens!”
Beneatha
". . .who is tired all the time from buttoning and bottling and babying"
Alliteration
Old saddle shoes
A raisin in the sun/ Shows the importance of growing up
WHAT GOTH ROMANCE AUTHOR DID WE READ
Edgar Allen Poe