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Please note the chapters to which you've been assigned. By the week the chapters have been assigned, work with your partners to code them, then send your results to me at wongk@smccd.net so that I can post them on our website.
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Chapter 1 |
Grange married to Margaret; their son Brownfield; poor meager existance as black tenant farmers during the 1920's |
Karen |
Chapter 2 |
Brownfield dependent on his mother, Margaret; Margaret seeks solace in her affairs; one affair results in the illegitimate Star; Grange abandons the family; Uncle Silas is killed; Margaret and Baby Star die |
Karen |
Chapter 3 |
Shipley the truck driver is in search of Grange; Brownfield leaves home in search of his father |
Karen |
Chapter 4 |
Brownfield is fed by a caring though poor black woman; encounters myth of the North |
Karen |
Chapter 5 |
Brownfield begins to give up hope |
Karen |
Chapter 6 |
Brownfield is taken in by Josie and Lorene; foreshadowing that he'll meet up with his father again, only in Josie's house |
Karen |
Chapter 7 |
Josie consults with sister Madelaine about her violent dreams of being "ridden" |
Karen |
Chapter 8 |
Josie's past: is a prostitute for her father; theme of missing father figure yet again |
Karen |
Chapter 9 |
Brownfield was spending the night with Josie in her room and was working in the bar for money; Josie had nightmares about her father. |
May, Valerie, Jackie |
Chapter 10 |
Brownfield meet Mem; Josie adopted a daughter; Brownfield is attracted to Mem. |
May, Valerie, Jackie |
Chapter 11 |
Mem is a teacher; Mem teaches Brownfield to write; Josie and Lorene are jelous of Mem. |
May, Valerie, Jackie |
Chapter 12 |
Brownfield marries Mem; Brownfield finds a job at the plantation. |
May, Valerie, Jackie |
Chapter 13 |
Brownfield is working in the farm and is in debt; Mem is pregnant with her second child, and Mem is a good wife. |
May, Valerie, Jackie |
Chapter 14 |
Khaledh, Yesenia |
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Chapter 15 |
Khaledh, Yesenia |
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Chapter 16 |
Khaledh, Yesenia |
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Chapter 17 |
Khaledh, Yesenia |
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Chapter 18 |
Khaledh, Yesenia |
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Chapter 19 |
Brownfield never pays attention to his kids. He uses language he would use to a whore towards his daughter Daphne.Daphne tell baby Ruth good stories about Brownfield hoping she will only remember those. |
Mika, Edwin |
Chapter 20 |
Brownfield working for Captain Davis. |
Mika, Edwin |
Chapter 21 |
Brownfield's children hate him. Brownfield wants to move again to another shack, but Mem disagrees. |
Mika, Edwin |
Chapter 22 |
Brownfield continues to disrespect Mem; Mem begins to put her foot down. Mem finds house and job in city she gives Brownfield ultimatum and ten rules/ "commandments". |
Mika, Edwin |
Chapter 23 |
Brownfield is angry with Captain Davis; however he keeps it inside. |
Mika, Edwin |
Chapter 24 |
Mem got a job at the town that pays $12 a week. |
Tony |
Chapter 25 |
Brownfield was more abusive to Mem. As they move to JL's place Mem resists moving there. She is sick of Brownfield abusing her. While pointing a gun at hum, she yelled at Brownfield, he needs to abide by. |
Tony |
Chapter 26 |
Brownfield waits until Mem gets weak. |
Tony, |
Chapter 27 |
Brownfield got an job in the frozen pie factory. He is also intending to get Mem pregnant so that she will become weak so he can abuse her again. |
Tony |
Chapter 28 |
Mem got sick and was weak from the two pregnancies from Brownfield. |
Tony |
Chapter 29 |
Mem threatens to leave Brownfield, Ruth stands up to her father |
Jeanine, Katy |
Chapter 30 |
When Ruth was a little girl Mem had a baby boy but he died; Daphne took care of her little sisters and told them stories about Brownfield; Ornette was a rebel and did not respect Mem; Ruth did not like Brownfield and the thought of leaving him made her smile |
Jeanine, Katy |
Chapter 31 |
Brownfield gets fired from his job; Brownfield is drunk and is walking around with a shotgun while the girls hide in the chickencoop; Mem comes home and Brownfield shoots her in the face; Ruth awakens next to Josie forgetting everything that she saw |
Jeanine, Katy |
Chapter 32 |
Ruth moves in with Grange and Josie; Josie doesn't like having Ruth around |
Jeanine, Katy |
Chapter 33 |
Josie fades away and sells her lounge to pay for Grange's farm; Grange and Ruth become inseperable; John is Ruth's hero and a plantation man; Uncle Remus told strange stories; Uncle Buster knocked his wife through glass; Grange becomes a part of the church when Uncle Buster swallowed a fly |
Jeanine, Katy |
Chapter 34 |
Through dance Grange helps Ruth realize her refined, graceful manner. Josie is jealous of their close relationship. Josie visits Brownfield in jail. |
Maria, Bianca, Veronica |
Chapter 35 |
Family alcoholism appears in Ruth's ability to drink large quantities of wine for someone so young. Ruth believes Grange a changed man from his sinful ways. |
Maria, Bianca, Veronica |
Chapter 36 |
Ruth unknowingly enters the world of racism throughthe eyes of Grange's storytelling. |
Maria, Bianca, Veronica |
Chapter 37 |
Part of Grange's northern experience was witnessing the death of a white woman who hated blacks as much as he hated whites, but Ruth shows him that as plain as Brownfield killed Mem, it was not the white man.Grange learns from Ruth that hatred is perpetuated so long as one who hates teaches the next generation. |
Maria, Bianca, Veronica |
Chapter 38 |
Brownfield reminisces of Mem and her plum and youthful days while at her funeral in chains. |
Maria, Bianca, Veronica |
Chapter 39 |
Brownfield describes how the punishment for the time served in jail always fit the person instead of the crime they committed. He remembers Mem and thinks about his family and feels lonely. |
Stephanie |
Chapter 40 |
Josie and Brownfield talk often because she visits him at least once a week. Brownfield tries to make her go against and hate Grange for all the attention he is giving Ruth. At first it doesn't work but then he convinces her. They plan for him to take Ruth away from Grange when he gets out of prison. |
Stephanie |
Chapter 41 |
Grange still tries to convince Ruth that white people are bad. One of the major reasons is probably because he explains that Margaret had an affair with Shipley (he doesn't tell Ruth this). He tries to make her believe that all white people are no good but she is always questioning him. |
Stephanie |
Chapter 42 |
Stephanie & Edward |
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Chapter 43 |
Stephanie & Edward |
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Chapter 44 |
Josie left Grange and moves in with Brownfield; Ruth's baptism |
Michelle |
Chapter 45 |
Confrontation between Grange and Brownfield; Brownfield wanting to take Ruth; Grange gives all his money to Ruth; Grange admitting his negligence to his family. |
Michelle |
Chapter 46 |
Brownfield confronted Ruth that he'll take him away from Grange; Brownfield's story about Mem; what had happened to Ruth sisters. |
Michelle |
Chapter 47 |
Grange and Ruth waiting for Brownfield's plan; Copeland met Quincy,Helen, and white couples. |
Michelle |
Chapter 48 |
Brownfield took Grange to court over custody for Ruth; Brownfield won the court case; Grange's death |
Michelle |