What did the narrator and Lou tell the painter lady to do with the wall?
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Question 2
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Why do the narrator and Lou feel that the wall belongs to the people of Taliaferro Street and not the painter lady?
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Question 3
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How do Lou and the narrator feel about the food the Morris twins bring to the painter lady?
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Question 4
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What did the narrator and Lou tell the painter lady to do with the wall?
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Question 5
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Why do the narrator and Lou feel that the wall belongs to the people of Taliaferro Street and not the painter lady?
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Question 6
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How do Lou and the narrator feel about the food the Morris twins bring to the painter lady?
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Question 7
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What did the narrator and Lou tell the painter lady to do with the wall?
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Question 8
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Why do the narrator and Lou feel that the wall belongs to the people of Taliaferro Street and not the painter lady?
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Question 9
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How do Lou and the narrator feel about the food the Morris twins bring to the painter lady?
Question 10
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How does the painter's lady's steady focus on her work and her failure to acknowledge the narrator and Lou feel about themselves? To what animal do they compare themselves?
Question 11
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How does the narrator treat Side Pocket? How do the narrator and Lou feel about the painter lady's dismissal of the Morris twins' offering of food?
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Question 12
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In what ways do the people at the diner , customers and the narrator's mother, find the painter lady offensive?
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Question 13
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What two reasons does Mama give to explain the painter lady's behavior? (HINT: one has to do with geography; the other with her chosen profession)
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Question 14
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Why do Lou and the narrator spend all their savings on spray paint? What does this tell you about how strongly they felt?
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Question 15
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Name the heroes painted on the wall.
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Question 16
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When the narrator realizes that the flowers were really faces and that one of the faces looked like Freda Morris and another like Hattie Morris, what do you, the readers, realize about the painter lady and her observation skills?
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Why does Side Pocket speak with pride? (What images make him proud?)
Question 18
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Notice the THINGS that the painter lady included on the wall. Name at least two THINGS. What do you think she is telling young people about their future and about how to achieve success?
Question 19
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When the people read the inscription on the wall, what did they realize about the painter lady that they hadn't realized earlier?
Question 20
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Offer at least two reasons people in this story misunderstand or misjudge people.
Question 21
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What can people do to help each other to NOT misunderstand or pre-judge one another? (HINT: What could the painter lady have done, for example, to help the people of Taliaferro Street understand her better? What could the narrator have done better?)
