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Highlights
Chapter 5: Richard was moved into 6th grade.
Richard began selling papers, these papers promoted the KKK.
Granny fell down the stairs when she attempted to hit Richard.
Richards grandpa died.
Uncle Tom planned on moving in
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Chapter 6: Richard found a job working for a white family doing chores for two dollars a week. The family treated him terribly and he swore to not return. Richards mom had another stroke.
Richard threatend Uncle Tom with a razor blade after an argument.
Vocab
Solicitude-Exessive concern
Receptivity-Try something new
Palatial- resembling something big
Chastise-punish
Boon-Helpful
Unbraid- To falsly yell out for.
Invectives-Abusive language
Prim-proper
Puritanical- Negativly strict in religious matters
Jovial-Joyful
Impudent-Disrespectful
Trifles-Things of small valuse
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Writting style
the writting style of these chapters is naturalism.
Themes
Chapter 5: Poverty, the chapter goes through the struggles richard had growing up
Chapter 6: Immagination and education, In this chapter, Richard starts to read books which triggers his immagination.
Past or Present time?
These chapters are set in the present time of richards life
Point of View
Similarly to the previous four chapters, chapters 5-6 are in first person
Characters Roles
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Richard-Protagonist, narorator
Ella Wright- Richard talked about her illness
Granny- Allways agianst Richard, one of the many antagonists, very religious
Aunt Addie-Another antagonist. Blames richard for all of the problems in the family
Uncle Tom-Became one of the many antagonists after his altercation with Richard in chapter 6
Granpa-Died at the end of chapter 5
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Inferences- What Happens Next?
With all of the suffering that has happened in Chapters 5 and 6, we believe that the trend of suffering will continue. We also feel that Richard will eventually figure some things out about life and perseverence. We think he will find a better job and begin to come around with his family.
Rhetoric
1. The use of a hyperbole can be found when Wright says that his hunger is "a living, gnawing thing, always hungry and on the prowl." Wright is not always "hungry", but this quote helps us to understand that he is suffering.- Chapter 5
2. "Wherever I found religion in my life, I found strife, the attempt... to rule" is an allusion that makes Wright seem that he can never have a close relationship with his religious side.- Chapter 5
3. Wright uses a similie to show how he feels trapped within his life. "I feel like a fly caught in a spider's web". Wright says this because he dislikes his job as a delivery boy and feels trapped. - Chapter 6
Rhetoric
4. The use of metaphors acan be noted without the whole novel. Wright uses one while explaining his grandmother's religious beliefs. "Her religion was a rickety ladder that she climbed up and down, backward and forward, as she scrubbed and cooked and washed and ironed." -Chapter 5
5. Wright ironically uses his grandmother's religious beliefs once more. He says that "She believed that God was a giant in the sky who reached down and punished people for their sins." This is ironic because God is viewed as forgiving and loving, not a punishing God.- Chapter 6
6. Wright finds his grandmother inferencing his relationship with religion. His grandmother says "You ought to know God through some church". His grandmother is inferencing that Wright needs to find God and begin to go to church to do so. -Chapter 6
Questions
1. What was one of Wright's jobs within chapters 5 and 6?
2. Even though Wright is making decent money while being a paperboy, why does he quit his job?
3. Why does Granny not acknowledge Wright considers him "truly dead" to her?
Answers
1. What was one of Wright's jobs within chapters 5 and 6?
Answer- Wright was a writer/paperboy for Brother Mance, a water boy. and a paver.
2. Even though Wright is making decent money while being a paperboy, why does he quit this job?
Answer- Wright finds out about the racist comments and actions pinned towards African Americans within the text. The newpaper Wright hands out also has KKK propaganda within them.
3. Why does Granny not acknowledge Wright considers him "truly dead" to her?
Answer- Wright daates a white woman.