Another brooklyn discussion questions

I’m working on a English question and need guidance to help me study.

Im gonna write the questions with the pages number from the book

the questions is :

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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