Characters
One crazy summer main characters
Who is ; Cecile, Delphine, Vonetta, Fern
Year the story take place?
what if 1968 ?
Where do the girls parents live?
What if Pa in Brooklyn, NY and Cecile in Oakland, CA
Big Ma tells Delpine,'Your mother lives in the street, in a hole in the wall, sleeping on park benches next to winos.' What does this mean? Is this true?
what if, it's actually true. This is the way Big Ma shares how she feels about Cecile.
We push our way up in the clouds; the clouds get mad and push back.'
Personification.
what if Personification.
Black man who pretends to hate the white police but is helping the police at the same time by giving them information about the Black Panthers.
who is Crazy Kelvin ?
What are the Black Panthers fighting for?
What if equal rights for all people, especially Blacks
Where do the girls go each day when they are in Oakland?
what if the Peoples Center with Sister Mukumbu
What work does Cecile do for the Black Panthers?
what if , Writing poems supporting their cause and printing their flyers for them on her printing press in the kitchen
'I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark.'
what if Simile
Woman who runs the Chinese restaurant where they buy their takeout food to eat on Cecile�s floor
who is Mean Lady Ming ?
Muhammed Ali
Who is Famous boxer in 1968 ?
What is the green stucco house?
what if the house Cecile lives in that looks like it is 'covered in peaks of hard green frosting.
Are the girls ever allowed in Ceciles kitchen? Why or why not?
what if ,Only Delphine is allowed to go in and cook dinner. Cecile doesn't want the girls messing up her printing stuff.
All three of us had butterflies.
what if Idiom
How does Cecile dresses, that she left, how she takes care of them, how she interacts with them
how is Cecile is different from other mothers. Give us details?
Who is Huey Newton?
who is One of the founders of the Black Panthers
Why is the chapter called "Even the Earth is A Revolutionary"?
what is,political revolutions, the kind which the Black Panthers advocate to make changes
WHY DIDN'T THE GIRLS WANT TO GO TO THE RALLY?
BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF PROBLEMS WITH
CRAZY KELVIN.
Define metaphor.
what if, a figure of speech that says one thing is another thing.
Cecile told her girls that Nzila was
what is, her name now that she was a poet.
Police during the 1960's were referred as
What if pigs'?
What parts of the city did the girls visit in San Francisco?
what if Chinatown, Fishermans wharf, cable cars
What happened when Cecile met the girls at the airport?
What is, she walked off forcing them to keep up with her.
An extreme exaggeration for the purpose of making a point.
What if, hyperbole.