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

• evidence used to infer character traits

• Direct characterization

• Educated guess based on evidence

• STEAL

• The author describes the character

• Inference

• The reader infers character traits

• Indirect characterization

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

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

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

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

• "The scissors hissed near my ear."

• "The bright noon sun burned my scalp."

• "...the mango's tangy flesh."

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

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

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