Chapter 3

Write your answers on a piece of paper. DO NOT copy the questions. Responses must be in complete sentences, and please include citation of the page number.
– For example, “He vanished like a cruel magician” (5).

If your number is odd, only answer the odd numbers. If you number is even, only answer the even numbers.

Period 1 & 2

  1. Where does Alexie use imagery? (Where does he sight, sense, smell, taste, and/or touch to help you visualize the scene?)
    – Example: “I practice shooting at cars driving by the freeway . . . Click, click, click, click” (33).
  2. On page 25, paragraph 4, Justice says, “It’s wrong to burn good things. If you want to set fires, you must burn down bad things. Remember, revolution is not about spontaneous combustion. The true revolutionary must set himself aflame.” In at least five sentences, write your interpretation of this. Why do you think Alexie includes this quote in his book?
  3. Write a five sentence response on Nietzsche’s quote in the last paragraph on page 25.
  4. Why does Zits come to appreciate Justice so quickly? (24-26)
  5. What use does the word “whatever” have for Zits? (28)
  6. How might the description of Justice’s physical appearance shape the symbolic significance of his character?
  7. On page 32, Justice asks Zits if he’d kill a white man to bring back his mother, how does Zits answer and why? How would you answer?
  8. “… I stand over the unconscious dude. He looks dead, and I feel powerful” (33). Why does this make him feel “powerful”? Why does he go on to say these moments can make a boy feel “immortal”?
  9. What is Justice’s interpretation of empowerment?
  10. Why does someone tell Zits he is not real in the bank?

Period 4

  1. Where does Alexie use imagery? (Where does he sight, sense, smell, taste, and/or touch to help you visualize the scene?)
    – Example: “I practice shooting at cars driving by the freeway . . . Click, click, click, click” (33).
  2. On page 25, paragraph 4, Justice says, “It’s wrong to burn good things. If you want to set fires, you must burn down bad things. Remember, revolution is not about spontaneous combustion. The true revolutionary must set himself aflame.” In at least five sentences, write your interpretation of this. Why do you think Alexie includes this quote in his book?
  3. Write a four sentence response on Nietzsche’s quote in the last paragraph on page 25.
  4. Why does Zits come to appreciate Justice so quickly? (24-26)
  5. What use does the word “whatever” have for Zits? (28)
  6. What is Justice’s interpretation of empowerment?
  7. Why does someone tell Zits he is not real in the bank?
  8. On page 32, Justice asks Zits if he’d kill a white man to bring back his mother, how does Zits answer and why? How would you answer?

 

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