Riley+A.

1. Why did Sal's father insist on her traveling with her grandparents to Idaho? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.

He wanted to be alone with Marget and did not want her grandparents to get lost with her.It says this in the book.

2. Who does Sal decide to tell her grandparents a story about? Why did she choose to tell this story other than another story? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.

3. How did Sal get her name and what is the significance behind her name? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.

4. Explain why blackberries reminded Sal of her mother. Explain something that reminds you of another person. It reminds her of her mother beacuse when she was younger her mother at a blackberry and went to her favorite tree and kissed the tree. She thinks she can see a black mark were her mother kissed the tree.Also Sal went over to Pheobe's house for dinner and Mrs. Winter bottom was making blackberries pies. Sal could not help reming that her and her mother used to go out to the fields and pastures in Bybanks picking blackberries.

3. If you were Mrs. Winterbottom, how would you have felt about the way in which your family treated you? I would feel like they are always depending on me for me to cook dinner fix prudence's blouse. I would fell left out of everything and feel like I am there maid. And I would feel like mrs.Winterbottom having to do everthing that mrs.Winterbottom. Also like nobody cared about me. .