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

• Educated guess based on evidence

• Inference

• The author describes the character

• Direct characterization

• evidence used to infer character traits

• Indirect characterization

• The reader infers character traits

• 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 mango's tangy flesh."

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

• "The scissors hissed near my ear."

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

• "The bright noon sun burned my scalp."

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

• "...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