Vocabulary
What is a synonym for unrehearsed?
What is impromptu
a mouth fiddle
What is the harmonica?
Greg's favorite sport that he cannot play because of his grades
What is basketball?
It's the message the author wants the reader to walk away with
What is theme?
Team Greg wants to play on
What is the Scorpions?
What is a synonym for studiously?
What is intently?
This is the part of the country where Sweet Lemon Brown performed.
What is the South?
New York City
Where did the story take place?
It is the type of conflict that is man v. man, man v. nature, man v. society
What is external conflict
Four facts about Lemon Brown's life
Who is Lemon's wife and son?
What is his wife died and Jesse stayed with his aunt while Lemon was on the road playing The Blues?
What is Jesse went to war and died?
What is Jesse makes his money by performing?
The lead act in a show, something Lemon Brown was not, but he was still popular
What is a headliner?
He was an okay young man and not like the thugs
What Lemon Brown thought of Greg?
It is the type of conflict that the main character is being carried away by a fast current
What is man v. nature
Lemon Brown knows his son loved him because of this.
What is the fact that Jesse saved his father's old harmonica and newspaper clippings of his hit performances (his treasure) while he was in the war?
What is the antonym for skimming a text?
What is probing a text?
The resolution of the story falls after this part of the plot analysis
What is the falling action?
How Jesse died, according to Lemon Brown
What is he was killed in the war?
It is the conflict of man v. himself
What is an internal conflict?
Greg made a noise with his mouth, Lemon stood at the top of the steps, Lemon lunged himself down the steps and the thugs ran away
What is how did Lemon Brown and Greg scare the thugs?
What is ominous?
These five things make up the plot
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
Place for an African American literary explosion called Harlem Renaissance
What is Harlem, New York
The type of conflict where the main character must decide to run into the woods
What is man v. himself?
Treasure of a mouth fiddle and newspaper clippings that he gave to his son when he went to war, his son kept his treasure, he kept it on his leg in a plastic bag wrapped with rags
What is why Lemon Brown's treasure was so important to him?