Saturday+Street

Saturday Street
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Jasmine B. || (include historical, geographical, physical context) || Bridgett Lonnie Evelin: There are different settings in the story. The first place was the hideout that they shared, and the second place is Saturday Street. This place is the street were Cookie kissed Ivory Jones, and the Voodoo Lady yelled at them. The street is dirt, hot weather, and creeks and lakes all around. The historical context was their color skin. The people that they lived around didnt want then to be friends with one another. It was set in the late 50's and 60's. There was still people that were resit. Even though they were told not to be friends the y didnt care and still hung out. thats where the hideout comes in place. || //"You still play with dolls?" "magic gold shoes"// There was also this one were she likes Cookie's brother, and how she describes how he looks in her eyes;//"eyes liike Brazil and skin like bitter sweet chocolate."// || Golden High Heels- Maturity, getting older The kiss- Cookie growing up and leaving apart of the narrator behind. Saturday Street- The time line from childhood to adulthood, and the diffrence between black and white settings, such as the actions and language. || (in addition to character traits, label as dynamic, static, flat, or round) || Jordon: The characters in Saturday Street are Cookie, Mama, Johnny, Ivory Jones, Voodoo Lady, great grandma, and Aunt Jesse ||
 * 2nd Block**
 * Themes || The theme of Saturday Street is sort of like how people mature and how some aren't always ready to mature when people think they are. Cookie seemed to mature a little in the story but then theres also the Narrator who is not yet ready to mature. She's still going through some things in her life and that might be something that is hard for her to continue on knowing!
 * Plot || The plot is for the white girl to control her emotions . At the begining she was controlling them but they were building up and then she finally exploded.She exploded after the voodoo lady came out. She was in the fight or flight pose and she chose flight. At the begging the white girl aka Rayann has a crazy mother her best firend is a african american girl named Cookie. Cookie decides she wants to take Rayann down Saturday St. She has a love doll her grandmother gave her to remind her she doesn't hate her mother she just hasn't gotten to learn to lover her. So they go down Saturday St. where its a diifferent nieghborhood Rayann has ever been to beacuse it's a different race living their. She feels really uncomfortable and she wants to leave but Cookie doesn't want to leave because she's making out with her crush....Rayann has no self confidence and she needs to learn to stand up for herself. She's hiding all these emoltions inside of her and finally for no reason this weird voodoo lady comes out, it scares the Heck out of her and she just bursts into tears and starts to run away not caring about Cookie. FInally Cookie catches up to her and for no reason at alll they laugh....beacuse through thick and thin you always have to laugh once in awile to help you out whatever the situation. ||
 * Point of View || Bridgett Lonnie Evelin : First person narrator. Very reliable, she saw everything that happened, naive narrator. She is reliable because she was in the story, and she knows everything that happened even if she doesn't understand everything that is happening. She is also very reliable because she is still a child and tell everything she sees or does. She is naive because most of the things she does she really doesn't understand them. Like when they were smoking, she just gave into pear pressure. She never really knew that she was going to start to chock and everything like that. ||
 * Setting
 * Style || The style of this story is very much like young girls. Mary Jane Ryals gets in the character of little girls. It's just basically an everyday young girl(s) style of talking and just expressing how they feel. This uses of similies alot. It's also very Southern. For example:
 * Tone || the story has a nervous tone and it makes the reader feel nervous about what will happen Matt ||
 * Language || Well this story contains plenty of informal language. It uses everyday speech. This also has some errors in grammar. Some examples are //"Today I been thinking about my mama locked up in the hospital for being schizo.// I think she chose her characters like that because she wants to have two vey different people being friends, sharing things in common no matter what other people say. I think that's why. There would be incorrect grammar probably for their lack of getting good education. ||
 * Symbolism || Bridgett Lonnie Evelin: Love Doll- it represents the little child that is still in her that reminds her of her mother.
 * Characters

There are many themes throughout the story. One is **coming of age**. The narrator becomes more mature and aware of herself: physically and mentally. That brings the theme of **awareness**. She starts to see things happening around her that makes her really think. She starts to wonder what it would be like for her to have a relationship with Ivory Jones, but what she would have to lose and give up to have one. Another theme is **friendship/companionship**. The narrator and Cookie go through a lot of huge obstacles to stay friends. In the end, their friendship survives the constant butchering and they can forget about everything around them and just be friends. || Click Here To View Plot Diagram //// || (include historical, geographical, physical context) || Stephanie Ruff:
 * 3rd Block**
 * Themes || Kayli:
 * Plot || [[image:story_plot.jpg]]
 * Point of View || Vanessa: My point of view for this story is that the author should of mentioned the narrators name because everything that was happening in the story was kind of based around her. I think the story tells you what cookie and the narrator do together. The narrator is 1st person because she is telling the whole story the story is seen by a young girls eyes. The narrator is the one telling the story because she is one of the main characters in the story and is a big part.The narrator is like a shy girl she follows cookie who is her black friend. This narrator is i think a reliable storyteller because she is telling us everything she is seeing. I think that this narrator might be a bit young to know about everything they are talking about because how she says things like " They give a big mouth kiss like sucking a Tootsie Roll Pop, the whole thing in your mouth and your tongue circling it. ||
 * Setting


 * __Historical Context:__** The society in this story is segregated because as you read the story, you will find that NO ONE wants to see Cookie and the narrator together as friends. Cookie is a black girl. The narrator is a white girl. In those times, blacks and whites weren't allowed to play together, but they bypassed the rules and made their friendship work, no matter what it took.


 * __Geographical Context:__** The location of this story is somewhere in the South. You can determine that by the historical context because the poeple were segregated. Segregation was widely known in the South during the 20__th__ century.

When reading this story, you will realize that Mary Jane Ryals uses a lot of slang for her characters. She also used many comparisons or similies. Some examples are: //"...powerful-as-morning-glories high heels." "...eyes like Brazil and skin like bittersweet chocolate.."// Another way she wrote the story was describing this in unusual ways, such as: //"...on the peekaboo tows high heels..."//
 * __Physical Context:__** The way that Cookie was using the physical parts of the South were as though they were living in rugged houses, but they made the best of it with what they had. It also shows that is was a very small town because it was only one main street they liked to wlak down: Saturday Street. ||
 * Style || Ariella:

The two main characters in this story are very young and dont have that great of a vocabulary, so when they describe things they use odd phrase such as://"We walked wibbly wobbly down the girt street...".// There is also an accent within the characters that is very southern. When speaking, they tend to leave out words or add an unwanted word. The narrator doesn't seem to pay much attention to correct grammer probably because she doesn't have much need to and she is pretty young. || The main tones in this story are happy and scared. The narrator is happy when describing Cookie, Johnny, and Ivory Jones, but sounds scared when talking about the Voodoo Lady. || Saturday Street's narrator used informal speech most of the time. When the charactors talk, they talk informaly and with southern slang. For example: Cookie and Johnny talk like this, "//You __ain't__ my boss boy//." and "//Your sister is __womanish__//." and "//__Hooo__, girl//." Womanish is a word that they made up that means "sassy colored girl." In Saturday Street they use everyday speech. || Saturday Street: To me in this story the street represented the separation between races. The street showed how you can be in a whites only part of town and switch to a colored only part of town in an instant. Love Doll: In the story the doll represented the part of her that she had been living so long without, her mother. She was given the doll by her grandmother and was told that it represented love and since she had gone so long without her mother's love the doll gave her that comfort and support. High-heeled shoes: The shoes represented the growth that the girls were going to have to go through before they would reach adulthood.The shoes reminded them that they were only children. || (in addition to character traits, label as dynamic, static, flat, or round) || Kayli: __Cookie:__ The narrator's "colored" friend. She can sing and dance beautifully. She is very mature physically and mostly mature mentally. She is static because the changes she goes through doesn't change her at all. She kisses Ivory Jone's friend, but does not change in any way. She still acts the same and has the same attitude towards her life. Exploring that part of life did not affect her in any way. __Narrator(1st person):__ She is scared to kiss Ivory Jones because she feels like you give something important away when you do, though she longs to be with him. She is eleven and is friends with Cookie. Cookie's physical appearance makes the narrator's self esteem lower because of her slowly moving physical maturity. She is a dynamic character because she goes through the realization of her maturing self and changes a little bit. She becomes more aware of herself and the things happening around her. It was like she got clear vision all of a sudden and realized what kind of things happen. __The Narrator's mom:__ She is locked up in a mental ward for yelling about crazy things that happened weeks later. People are afraid of hearing the truth, even if it is scary and horrible. She is static. || Craig:
 * Tone || Khain:
 * Language || Kelly:
 * Symbolism || Tiana:
 * Characters

__Geographic location:__ The location of the story is probably the same place as all the stories in this book, northern Florida or southern Georgia. But I belive that due to the voodoo lady and the marshy boggy roads that this story actually takes place in Lousiana. This would be alot eaier to expand on if I only knew wether Johny was black or white. __setting importance:__ The setting could have had a more important role to the story. The real importance that appereard was when the narrator runs through the muddy road, trips, and breaks her shoe.
 * __Setting__** __Time__: Due to the way that the characters in the story talked I guesed that the story took place in the 60's due to talk of communism and racism.she referes to her friend as her coloured friend.