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a) Identify a character. b) Identify a character trait. c) Provide textual evidence, properly cited, as support. Be sure to sign your answers.

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a) Identify a character. b) Identify a character trait. c) Provide textual evidence, properly cited, as support. Be sure to sign your answers.

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For the mother, use a blue sticky note. 

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For the mother, use a blue sticky note. 

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Ashamed of herself
“I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights” (Walker 1)

Savannah

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b) She is tough
c) In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man working hands.
(Pg.1. Paragraph 5)
-Chase

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She is resilient.
"I was always better at a man's job. I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way" (Walker 2).

Elle

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generous
“‘She can have them Mama,’ she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. ‘I can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts’” (Walker 6)

Savannah

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She is ashamed of her mother and family.
"She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends" (Walker 2).

Elle

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She is unassertive
“She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle”  (Mother 9)
- Emily

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Assertive
“with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them”
(Mother 6)
- Emily

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Boldness
"She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts."
(Pg.2. Paragraph 3)
-Chase

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Reserved
"She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground." (Walker 316)
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Weak natured
""She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her."

(Pg.2. Paragraph 7)

-Chase

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She doesn't have a big presence.
"her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door" (Walker 1).

Elle

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she is willingly forgetful

""And who was she named after?" asked Wangero. "Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches. "
(Walker, 3)

- Cullen

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Dee is ostentatious, flashy in appearance: " A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Walker 3).
- Anina

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Prideful
"She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that 'no' is a word that the world never learned to say to her" (Walker 315)
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Assertive
" I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wagnero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap."( Walker 321)
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She wishes her daughter, Dee, appreciated her.

The mother has a dream where she attends a talk-show with Dee. "Then we were on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes." after she wakes up she realizes this could never be true, emphasizing the fact that this scene is a dream.

-Sadie Aylesworth

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Confident
"“She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin. (Dee)15
Emily

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Generous

Dee asks the mother if she can have the family quilts already promised to Maggie.  Maggie says "She can have them Mama," in response to Dee's begging.

-Sadie Aylesworth

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Dutiful. Maggie is not driven by desire or hidden agendas; she does what she can to help:
" I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon".

-Anina

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Ignorant

Dee looks down upon her family and believes they don't understand their culture. In reality, Dee is the one who is lost and doesn't understand her culture. She has given herself a new name and forsaken her family's traditions. As she leaves her family at the end of the story she tells Maggie, "You just don't understand(your heritage)."

-Sadie Aylesworth

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Dee is decisive

" "She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me." "
(Walker 3)

- Cullen

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Dee has "book-smarts":
"But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school" (Walker 2)
- Anina