Chelsea Heppert

And Some More

Characters: Rachel, Lucy, Nenny, Esperanza.

Fugurative Language: "There are clouds that look like big fields of sheep."(pg.36)

Summary: Rachel, Lucy, Nenny and Esperanza have a discussion about snow, clouds and all the different names poeple have for it. As they continue to talk it kind of becomes a game to them so they keep nameing names. The chapter becomes a jumbled mess of names and conversations. Each girl insults one another and it turns into a big fight.They all get mad at eachother and They stop nameing things instead they insult eachother and their families.

Question: Why do you think they eneded up getting into the fight?

Chelsea Heppert

Darius and the Clouds

Characters: Darius

Figurative langauge: "You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky..."(pg.33)

Summary: This chapter focus's alot on this boy named darius, he's a boy that everyone thinks is stupid, and he doesn't like school and chases girls around with a stick. Darius one day pointed up to the sky and starts to talk about the clouds. When he speaks of the clouds he talks with a lot of wisdom. While he talks about the clouds he points to a random one and says it to be god. When he says a cloud is god he puts it so simple that anyone can understand what he means.

Question: Why do you think Darius's claim about god shows wisdom?

Mike Woodard †

Chapter #24... Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water...

Esperanza talks of a woman that cleans her house of messes made by her husband and children. And Esperanza goes to this woman’s house. She fills a glass with hot water and places it on the table. This woman that Esperanza calls “Witch Woman”, is a fortune teller. She starts looking into her future and Esperanza asks if she sees a home. The woman replies that she does but it’s a home in her heart. Esperanza is then disappointed and the woman tells her that she should come back next week.

Key Characters: Esperanza and Elenita

Figurative Language: Simile- “All her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away at carnivals.

Question: Why do you think she chose teddy bears to compare her furniture to?

Heidi Rumpf

Sally(pg. 81-83)

Key Characters:
Sally
Sally's Father
Cheryl

Summary:
Sally is the kind of girl who is very pretty and all the boys at school like her. But her father doesn't approve of her being so beautiful. Their family is very strict with their religion, and they are not suppose to dance. Sally always has to go striaght home right after school, and noone really understands why. Sally wishes she lived in a house when you have no nieghbors that can see right through your kitchen window, no motorcycles or cars to hear. But Sally just dreams, and dreams.

Figurative Language:
"Sally is the girlwith eyes like Egypt and nylons the color of smoke." (pg. 81)
"You lean against the schoolyard fence alone with your eyes closed as if no one was watching," (pg. 82)



Question:
Does it seem like Sally believes in her religion?

Erica Green

Hairs

The girl talks about everybodys hair in her family. She tells us how hers is lazy. The girl gets into detail with her moms hair. She really likes her moms hair. She thinks of her mothers hair as confty it reminds her of home. She thinks it smells like bread.

Question: why does her moms hair remind her of home?

Characters: Papa, Her, Carlos, Nenny and kikki.

Figurative:"but my mothers hair, my mothers hair, like little rosettes" page.6

Joe Petti

Gil's Furniture Bought and Sold

Key Characters are : Esperanza, Nenny, The Black Guy who owns the Store.

Summary: This chapter is all about Esperanza's trip to the junk store. She once bought a refrigerator from him once, and people sell things to this man that owns the store. The junk store is really a run down old looking store. The man that owns the store never turns the lights on because it wastes electricity, unless someone is buying something from him. This store looks basically like useless stuff scattered all around the store. Also the aisles in this store are very small.

Figureative Luangage

1.) Simile - It's like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadow and in our bones. pg. 20

2.) Simile - It's like drops of water. pg. 20

Question

Why doesn't the old man want to sell the box in the window?