Tenth 5,4,3,2,1

10/24/08

5 comments:
-Robert is going home to go to the protest down south to hopefully make a change, and make people change their minda about their ways of racism.
-This protest was a a sit-in to stop the segregation in the south.
-The main point of the ending of this novel is the protest that was basically based off the real life situation of the large group of teenagers who had a sit-in as a form of protest.
-This is important that the teenagers did a non-violent protest, becuase one it would spare them any violence back, and two it would show that blacks weren't what other groups said they were.
-Overall ROb has grown as a perosn in general taking on big roles, and growing very mature. His parents in the end are proud of him.

4 Questions:
-What does Robert hope will happen at the protest?
-Is this protest based off the one that happened when Martin Luther King Jr. was the black civil rights leader?
-Did anyone back off from the protest because they thought something would go wrong?
-Does Rob the kind of change he has made overtime?

3 Words:
-Mimeograph (Houston 241): a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
-Luncheonette (Houston 241): a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
-Jodhpurs (Houston 278): riding breeches cut very full over the hips and tapering at the knees to become tightfitting from the knees to the ankles.

2 Literary Devices:
-Metaphor: "The air was electric..." (Houston 245). This is a metaphor because it compares electric to the air, but it doesn't use the word as or like.
-Similie: "Draper the next day feeling like a hero," (Houston 248). This is a similiebecause it uses the word like to make a comparison.

1 Summary Sentence: This last section of my ROAR book is basically about the sit-in protest that many teenagers of the south led in order to make change.