Alec+B.

A l e c ’ s W i k i

Day 1 1.) 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.

Answer: Sal decides to tell her grandparents a story about Phoebe Winterbottom. She choose to tell this story instead of any other because most of the stories she knows are from Gramps and the stories of her mother make her think about her mother every minute of the day.

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

Answer: She got her name Salamanca because her parents thought that was the name of the Indian tribe that her great-great-grandma belonged to. After she was born they learned that the name of the tribe is really Seneca but since they were used to it they just kept the name Salamanca.

Day 2

1.) Use an event from Chapter 5 to support Sal's statement, "My grandparents can get into trouble as easily as a fly can land on a watermelon." 

Answer: Two years ago they drove to Washington D.C., they were arrested for stealing the back tires off a senator's car. "We were going to return them." In BayBanks, Kentucky, you could do this. You could borrow someone's back tires and return them later, but you could not do this in Washington D.C., and you could especially not do this to a senator's car. 

2.) Explain why blackberries reminded Sal of her mother. Explain something that reminds you of another person.  Answer: Blackberries reminded Sal of her mother bec ause one morning her mother put out a bole of blackberries out on the table for Sal and her father because she wanted to do something for them since she felt bad that her husband always knew what to do. Purple remiands me of my mother because it is her favorite color.