Makes Me Wanna Holler (9) ~pgs.365-390~

(NATHAN IS NOW 33 YEARS OLD!)
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• Nathan visits Portsmouth several times since he moved away and he learns overtime that most of his "brothers" have committed suicide, they've been shot, they are in jail for murder, and they are druggies that are broke.
• The divorce process is very ugly. Debbie is evil and she lies. She ends up staying in the house Nathan bought and they have "joint custody"
• Nathan at some point slips into a phase where he wants to beat up Debbie because she driving him towards bankruptcy. He can't really pay his child-support.
• Nathan's mother is stressed out about Dwight, Nathan's older brother who never has money and never pays her back.
• Nathan gets into the Washington Post and moves to Washington D.C.

4 Questions

• Why is Debbie so evil?
• Will Nathan ask Bimbo for some money because he's a millionaire?
• Does the Post pay more money than Journal-Atlanta Constitiution?
• How is Monroe doing?

3 Vocabulary Words

1. ashen-extremely pale; drained of color
2. pallid-pale; faint or deficient in color; wan:
3. entrenched-To fix firmly or securely

2 Literary Terms

• Simile-"Eyes vacant, and hearts cold as ice in winter." (McCall 372)
• Metaphor- "They moved with the speed and grace of gazelles."(McCall 373)

1 Overview sentence

1. Nathan gets a costly divorce and realizes that he could've been like the rest of the gang but he gets a job with the Washington Post and moves further north.