Brown Girl Dreaming 2
Storyboard Text
- 1st Person Narration
- Description
- Revealing Actions
- New York!
- "I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins."
- Building Suspense
- Robert's in Jail!
- Gunner's dying!
- Roman's sick with poisoning
- "Welcome home, my grandparents say. Their warm brown arms around us. A white handkerchief, embroidered with blue to wipe away my mother’s tears. And me, the new baby, set deep inside this love."
- Getting Readers Predicted
- "..and her baby brother, Robert, says he’s almost saved enough money to follow Caroline to New York City. Maybe I should go there, too, my mother says. Everyone else, she says, has a new place to be now."
- Support The Theme
- "And then one day, Roman won’t get up, sun coming in bright through the bedroom window, the rest of us dressed and ready to go outside. No laughter—just tears when we hold him. More crying when we put him down. Won’t eat and even my mother can’t help him.."
- "My grandmother’s kitchen is the same big and yellow and smelling of the pound cake she’s made to welcome us back..."
- Back Where Everything Started
- "On the bus home from Greenville, I wake to the almost happy ending, my mother standing at the station, Roman in his stroller, his smile bright, his arms reaching for us.."
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