St. Lucy

What are character traits?

• physical descriptions

• qualities, such as insecurity or bravery

• what a character says

• what a character has been through

You can learn a character's traits by watching the characters _________.

• thoughts, words, actions

• physical appearance

• spiritual appearance

• thoughts, farts, actions

What is direct characterization?

• reactions of other characters give us information we need

• we learn about characters through their physical appearance

• we learn about a character through their thoughts

• an author tells you directly about the character

Indirect characterization involves _________.

• learning about characters through their thoughts and action

• an author telling us the character is scared

• an author's comments

• a listing of character qualities from the authors

The reason why characters act, think, and feel as they do is ______.

• effect

• motivation

• foreshadowing

• cause

Which evidence best supports Claudette's adaptability to human life?

• Claudette finds the nuns’ transformation of the rectory to be “very scary” (p. 241). She panics and begins to sweat and howl when she cannot do the Sausalito (p. 243).

• When she gets angry at Mirabella she “push[es] her ears back from [her] head” and the nuns find her in the cattails with her “yellow eyes flashing” (p. 234).

• She is able to make “[d]ifferent sorts of calculations” to survive (p. 232) and realizes that it is best to be “solidly middle of the pack” while at St. Lucy’s (p. 232).

• When she comes home to her family, she lies about it feeling like home. “’So,’ I said, telling my first human lie. ‘I’m home.’” (p. 246)

What does the following quote reveal about Mirabella's character? Mirabella destroys Jeanette’s “homework binder” and scratches Claudette and Jeanette’s “shins so hard” that they bleed (p. 240)

• Mirabella is loving

• Mirabella is lonely

• Mirabella is destructive

• Mirabella is frustrated

Why does the narrator choose to stay in the "middle of the pack"?

• She was extremely shy and didn't want to draw attention to herself.

• She fears she may not be able to control her animal instincts.

• Those who either fail to adapt or adapt too successfully run the risk of being hated.

Claudette tells herself she'd "done everything I could" when she packs a lunch for Mirabella but doesn't say goodbye. We can infer that she ________.

• feels powerless to help Mirabella.

• knows she could have done more for Mirabella.

• wishes Mirabella had left earlier.

• is angry at the nuns for expelling her sister.

What evidence do we see that the narrator is experiencing "Stage 3" symptoms?

Stage 3: It is common that students who start living in a new and different culture come to a point where they reject the host culture and withdraw into themselves. During this period, they make generalizations about the host culture and wonder how the people can live like they do.

• I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the , trees you’ve never seen.

• We grinned back at them with genuine ferOcity. It made us nervous to meet new humans. There were so many things that we could do wrong!

• Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella -her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congratulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.

• I could have warned her. If we were back home, and Mirabella had come under attack by territorial beavers or snow-blind bears, I would have warned her. But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone.