Distance Between Us - Analysis, Characterization and Imagery

How do the events of CH 11, when Mami takes the children to La Quinta Castrejon, highlight the poverty that Reyna and her family live in? Answer in complete sentences and be sure to explain your answer.

Match the following

• The reader infers character traits

• Indirect characterization

• Educated guess based on evidence

• Inference

• evidence used to infer character traits

• Direct characterization

• The author describes the character

• STEAL

Imagery is description that

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Imagery - sight

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(b) Imagery - touch

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(c) Imagery - hearing

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(d) Imagery - taste

• "I could hear the mosquitos buzzing around us."

• "The scissors hissed near my ear."

• "...she dried her hands on her apron, stained with fresh red sauce."

• "The bright noon sun burned my scalp."

• "The sweet taste of orange didn't wash away the taste of oil in our mouths."

• "Carlos had wet our bed and I was soaked."

• "...the mango's tangy flesh."

• "...my cousin's face, bathed in tears."

Draw an image that represents Mami's feelings since returning from El Otro Lado, and the reason behind them.

Explain how Mago changes from when Mami leaves for El Otro Lado, to when she leaves with the wrestler.

When Abuelita Chinta tells Juana that she can't leave again, she is showing that she is _____________.

• sad

• mad

• disappointed

• uncaring