Thursday, January 16, 2014

Questions for Chapter 8 4-B


1.       What preoccupies Guitar’s dreams on a daily basis?

2.       What was Guitar able to predict based on the climate of the country’s culture?

3.       How does Guitar respond to Milkman’s proposal?

4.       What is the conflict the two men have in reference to getting the gold? What does this say about where each one is mentally?

5.       There was something Milkman wanted to know about Guitar. What is it?

6.       Read the section coming up very carefully and then discuss the symbolism of the white peacock.

7.       How do you think the following quote relates to the story’s theme? What can you predict will happen as a result of this analysis?

“Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

8.       How does the bird set the men up? What would the two men do with their money?

9.       What plan do the two men put together?

10.   What was so ironic about the bag of “gold”?

11.   What does Milkman hear as they grab the gold? Where do we believe that noise is coming from?

12.   Who sees them and what does the person wonder?

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