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Read Chapters 1 through 2 and answer the questions below as part of your Reading Log:
Chapter 1 – pages 1-16
1. Why does August come back to New York? Why doesn’t she accept her brother’s offer to stay for a while?
2. What is August’s reaction like when she sees her old friend Sylvia? Why do you think she chooses to get off the train and not talk to her?
3. Why does the chapter end with a reference to death in Indonesia?
Chapter 2 – pages 17-32
4. Why did August’s mother warn her against becoming friends with girls? Why does she long so much to become friends with Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela?
5. Why are August and her brother banned from playing outside? Do you think their father is making the right choice?
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Chapter 3 – pages 33-40
What do August and her brother decide to do once they are free to go outside?
What is August’s first impression of each of her three new friends?
Chapter 4 – pages 41-54
Do you believe August’s mother’s threat about sleeping with the butcher knife? Do you believe her accusation that their father has been with another woman?
What kind of a person was Clyde like? Why doesn’t the plan to run SweetGrove with him work out?
Chapters 5 and 6 – pages 55 – 68
What people or things are the girls afraid of? How do they plan to fight back?
Why do you think that for Angela, mother plus dance equals sadness?
At the end of the chapter, August narrates that their childhoods were comprised of “adults promising us their own failed futures” (63). What did each girl’s parent want for them? Do you think these expectations were reasonable?
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Chapter 7 – pages 69 – 78
How do the girls respond to attention from boys and men? What power do they have as a group?
Why has August’s brother gotten so serious? Why does she see so many people trying to discover “another Brooklyn?” (77)
Why does August keep asking about the urn?
Answer the questions below as part of your Reading Log:
Chapter 8 – pages 79 – 96
What is the big event of this chapter? Why does August’s father forbid them from participating?
Who is Sister Loretta, and what role does she play for August and her family?
Why do you think August’s father becomes a member of Nation of Islam? How does August react to the change?
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Chapters 9, 10, and 11 – pages 97 – 119
What is Sylvia’s room, and house, and life like? Why does it impress August?
Why does August take an interest in Jerome? And why does she choose Sylvia to confide in?
Why does Sylvia’s father throw out the girls? How does Sylvia react?
Why does Angela cry and not talk about her problems? Why does she keep the girls locked out?
Chapter 12 – pages 121 – 139
Why is August fascinated by Alana, the new neighbor across the street?
How does August feel about her continuing sexual relationship with Jerome? What does she still hold back on, and why?
What does it mean to be sent “Down South?”
What happens to Angela’s mother – and what does it make August remember?
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Running head: ANOTHER BROOKLYN
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Another Brooklyn
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ANSWERS.
1. The main reason why August came back to Brooklyn New York was to study her father’s death
and bury him eventually; she was an anthropologist at that time. Her father grew up in Brooklyn,
and that’s where he brought August and her little brother when they were young. This was after
twenty years since she was in New York which marked her childhood days. She was also on a
mission to clear the air on the childhood name in Brooklyn. On the same, she was to meet up with
her younger brother, who was staunch to the Islam religion. She is very reluctant to spend some
extra time with her brother because Brooklyn had so many memories that she felt she needed to
get over. She was also not ready to follow the Islam religion like her brother.
2. August and Sylvia were childhood friends before she left Brooklyn for college. August was
terrified when she saw Sylvia because they had bad blood since their teenage days. August evaded
their meeting whatsoever. This can be related to the fact that Sylvia took August’s boyfriend,
Jerome with whom she became pregnant. At this time August was fifteen years old. Previously,
Jerome tried to have sex with August but she was naïve, and still, she was not ready.
3. The chapter discusses the new life that August had gotten into that was more inclined to her
career in anthropology. She had begun to study deaths and how different cultures bury their loved
ones. She had been to Indonesia, Korea, and Madagascar where Muslims exhume their departed
ones. In this concept, August displays her fearlessness in death, not even her father’s. She is used
to studying people’s deaths. In Indonesia, they kept the dead in the house like a rational human
being, cooked for and fed, until they could afford to pay for the funeral.
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4. August mother warned her to keep off girlfriends because she had trust issues with the female
to female relations. She did not want her daughter to end up hurt and betrayed by her close friends.
It was a culture of not keeping female friends especially if it’s a fellow woman.
August longed to become friends with Angela Sylvia and Gigi because she admired their beauty.
She felt she needed to be part of their playing group and share her secrets with them. Even though
August was studying with them in school, their caliber was unreachable. She needed to be
associated with them by any means.
5. The reason why August and her brother were warned against going outside was the fact that the
neighborhood was very insecure. Rape, child molestation and murder cases were rampant in the
area. According to child protection, his father was right, and he did what he knew would save his
children from the dark neighborhood. On the other end, as long as the child growth and
development is concerned August and his brother were on the losing side because they need to
play and mingle with other kids in their neighborhood.
6. August and her brother longed to feel free for once and experience their space. The most
common urge they had was to go looking for their lost mother, who did not move with them to
Brooklyn. They could not tell where to find her, but they kept hoping they will see her one day.
7. She described her friends Sylvia as beautiful, tall with a red-brown hair. She also described Gigi
as a girl who was a mixture of different ethnicities, with dark braided hair who had a young mother
aged 21 years of age. Finally, she describes Angela as the girl w...
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