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?

Questions for Chapter 10 Continued... Due FRIDAY!!! 3-B

1.       Where were Milkman’s grandparents from?

2.       What was the one wish Milk had for Circe?

3.       Why did the lady of the house end her life, according to Circe’s understanding?

4.       Who is Jake?

5.       What is happening to Milk while he is literally searching the cave?

6.       What does Milkman find in the cave?

7.       How does Milkman end up leaving the plantation?

8.       Why is the man insulted by Milk offering money?

9.       What questions does Milkman have at the end of Chapter 10?

10.   Where does he go to find those answers?

Recruitment Fair at the GA Dome

RECRUITMENT FAIR

Representatives from 39 HBCUs will be on hand to speak with thousands of prospective students at the 2014 Honda Battle of the Bands Recruitment Fair. Attendees learn valuable information about HBCU admission requirements and about requirements for joining an HBCU marching band. HBCUs offer a variety of scholastic majors and opportunities in various fields, providing the ultimate academic and cultural college experience.

WHAT

HBCU Recruitment Fair

WHEN

Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

WHERE

Thomas Murphy Ballroom

Georgia World Congress Center

Questions for Chapter 10 3B

1.  Chapter 10 begins with the allusion of the folktale, Hansel and Gretel. What can we predict will happen based on this allusion?

2.  Where is Milkman at the start of this chapter?

3.  At what point does Morrison revert into flashback?

4.  Discuss the tension evident in the conversation between Milkman and Guitar. What makes the reader aware that this conversation is awkward?

5.   What is it that black women want from black men? What do while men and white women want?

6.  Why do the Seven Days protect black women?

7.  What excuse Guitar give for the way he views Macon Dead?

8.  What is Guitar’s interpretation of the way Pilate handled the situation at the jailhouse?

9.  Describe the “willingness to love” that Guitar’s mother had shown when her husband died?

10.                   Both men have their own reasons for needing the money? What were those reasons?

11.                   When Milkman arrives in Pittsburgh, where does he leave his luggage?

12.                   Who is Reverend Cooper? What does this man tell Milkman about his family history?

13.                   What has happened to Circe? How did things end up with the people that killed their father?

14.                   Describe Milkman’s grandmother’s appearance.

15.                   What does Macon Sr.’ s success say to the men around him?

16.                   Who is the woman staying in the house of the people that killed his grandfather? Describe Milkman’s first meeting with her.

17.                   Why is this meeting a bit of magical realism?

18.                   Who does this woman think Milkman is  when she meets him?

19.                   What was Milkman’s grandmother’s name?

20.                   How did Macon and Milk’s grandmother meet?

21.                   What happened in Hunter’s Cave, according to Circe?

22.                   STOP at 147

Song of Solomon Chapter 7 for 4B

1.  What is the main idea of the paragraph on page 163 (the first paragraph of Chapter 7)? How does this paragraph relate to Milkman’s desires?

2.  Why does Milkman feel used?

3.  What happened to Macon and his sister Pilate after their father was killed?

4.  How long was their stay with Circe? What was ironic about them staying with Circe?

5.  How does Pilate get her earring?

6.  What took place on the third day of the children’s freedom?

7.  What was the basis of the children’s argument?

8.  What does Macon, Jr. ask his so to do?

 

4th Block Questions

Chapter 6 Questions for 4th Block!!!

1.       What does Guitar do with Hagar?

2.       How had Guitar changed his life?

3.       According to Guitar, every death equals to how many generations killed?

4.       What is the job of this “society”?

5.       Why doesn’t the “society” exterminate the actual killers? What is their rationale for killing “any of them”?

6.       What does Guitar say about Kennedy?

7.       How does Guitar feel about white women?

8.       How does Guitar determine that he is being reasonable in his actions?

9.       Why can’t the “society” mirror the mafia or the klan?

10.   What happens when a member can’t take it anymore?

11.   Which member did the group feel they might lose?

12.   Why is Guitar okay with getting caught?

13.   Why is everything the “society” is doing based on love, at least according to Guitar? Connect this to the incident with Porter while he was up in his addict.

14.    What example of syntax do we find in the following lines:

“And we do it without money, without support, without costumes, without newspaper, without senators, without lobbyist, and without illusions!”

15.   Who is Milkman alluding to when he says, “You should like that red-headed Negro named X.”

16.   What does Milkman say to Guitar about habits?

17.   Why does Milkman fear “young dudes” being a part of the group?

18.   What day is Guitar?

19.   The last two lines seem to serve as a foreshadow? Why?

20.   What are we learning about these two men? How would you characterize each of them?

Questions for 3rd Block!!!

3rd BLOCK

1.       How does Milkman’s reaction to Danville differ from his father’s?

2.       What is Milkman carrying with him on his journey?

3.       Describe Milkman’s attire.

4.       Why do you believe Milkman offended the “tall man, elderly with a peaked cap”?

5.       How does Reverend Cooper know the Dead’s?

6.       Why was Macon Dead, Sr. shot?

7.       How does Rev. Cooper describe Pilate? How does this differ from the way those in the city see her?

8.       How did Pilate get her earring?

9.       For the first time, we see a different Milkman. Describe his countenance now in the story. Why do you think there is a change?

10.   What does Milkman mean when he says, “Sometimes, though, you can do something?”

11.   How did Rev. Cooper get the knot in the back of his head?

12.   What is the magical realism surrounding Circe?

13.   How does Milkman’s relationship with his father differ from the relationship between Macon Sr. and Macon Jr.?

14.   What emotions does Macon Sr. inspire in the men of Danville?

15.   Look at pages 234 and 235. Find syntax examples that stand out to you. Find at least three. Write the lines and what they are examples of.

16.   Why does Milkman begin to talk about his father the way he does in front of the men? What is the irony in this?

17.   Who is Nephew?

18.   Compare Milkman’s appearance to the way he was dressed when he first arrived. What is happening to him?

19.   As Milkman stands and looks at the house where Circe once worked, he sees something peering at him from a window? What does he see? How does he rationalize this vision?

20.    When Milkman opens the door and odor hits him. Describe the stench. What then happens to the odor when he walks inside?

21.   Why, as he walks in the house, does Morrison begin to have him recall dreams of witches?

22.   Describe the woman that grabs Milkman. Who is she and who does she think he is?