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Samson Fuller
What is Cholly’s father’s name?
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No. (we will discuss this later)
Does Soaphead actually change the color of Pecola's eyes?
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Soaphead Church, light-brown
Who is a “cinnamon-eyed West Indian” and what color skin does he have?
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coffee pot, welcome mat, quilt
What is something that Soaphead has a “genuine love of?”
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The label of “misanthrope:” “To name an evil way was to neutralize it if not annihilate it” (164).
Soaphead excuses his distaste for people with what?
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Cholly marries Pauline and during their relationship he learns that he learns that he has lost all desire. He meets Pauline in Kentucky as she is hanging over a fence scratching herself with a broken foot.
How and where did Cholly meet?
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Ocmulgee River
After passing a phase of “soundlessness,” what does Cholly recognize as “open space?” (Hint: river)
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6 children; 16 grandchildren
How many children and grandchildren did they have?
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That he said “Suffer little children to come unto me, and harm them not” (181).
What does Soaphead believe that God forgot?
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What ultimately drives Cholly to flee into silence and darkness? (Not what makes him flee his father)
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Whitcomb
What is the name of the “decaying British nobleman” who is related to Soaphead?
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pleading, cold, filled with malice, fear, focused on pair of dice
Discuss: During this period, Cholly loses the ability to recognize himself. Why and how does this suddenly happen?
What is an adjective that Cholly uses to describe his father’s eyes?
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marrying someone with lighter complexion — white race has “conviction of superiority” (168)
What does “marrying up” entail and how does it advance colorism?
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That he “had recieved Your Powers. It was not a complete lie, but it was a complete lie” (179)
What does Soaphead tell people, that is somewhat a lie?
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Bob
What is the dog's name?
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The white stain is maintaining pale skin within their family, which build on colorism in this novel.
What is the “white stain?"
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Click-clock of the woman’s heels, the laughter of idling men in doorways, the sound of a street car
Provide one example of one of the loud noises that Cholly hears after he meets his father.
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Pecola
Who is the little girl?
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Elihue Micah Whitcomb
What is the full name of the son of the schoolmaster and the half-Chinese girl?
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already being objectified from young age
How do we know that the little girl is Pecola? What does describing her by “little girl” and not her name imply?
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