Writing to Analyze Conflict

Question 1

Which excerpt from The Land, Part 1 best supports the claim that many formerly enslaved people were not completely free or equal after the war?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The Thomases, like all the other families who lived on my daddy's land, were sharecroppers, and because of that fact, they were obliged to take heed of whatever my daddy or my brothers said.

Question 2

Read this excerpt from The Land, Part 1.There were other boys too who picked on me, but Mitchell was the worst. I recall one time in particular when I was about nine or so and I was reading beside a creek on my daddy's land, and Mitchell came up from behind me and just whopped me on the head. For no reason. Just whopped me on the head! Course I jumped up mad. "What ya do that for?" I cried.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

character vs. character

Question 3

Read this excerpt from The Land, Part 4.Mitchell looked up, first at Hammond, then at me, and I felt my knees go weak. "Yeah," he mumbled, his eyes fixed on me, and at that moment I knew that my troubles with Mitchell were far from over.And I was right.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Their conflicts are still unresolved.

Question 4

What evidence from The Land, Part 1 best supports the claim that Paul’s father does not believe in solving his son’s problems for him?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He will not help Paul deal with Mitchell’s bullying.

Question 5

What evidence from The Land, Part 4 best supports the claim that Paul questions his father’s motives?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Paul is upset that his father calls him “my boy” instead of “my son.”

Question 6

In The Land, Part 1, how does Paul try to stop Mitchell from bullying him?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Paul asks his brothers to talk to Mitchell.

Question 7

Read this excerpt from The Land, Part 2.Now, I don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing I did. Maybe I was feeling guilty that because I was my daddy's son, I could ride Ghost Wind. Maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear I said what I said. I no longer was afraid of Mitchell.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

character vs. self

Question 8

Which excerpt from The Land, Part 4 best supports the claim that Paul is a talented horseback rider?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A man out of Alabama, man name of Ray Sutcliffe, told my daddy I was such a good rider, he wanted me to ride some races for him.

Question 9

What evidence from The Land, Part 2 best supports the claim that Paul has a unique talent with horses?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

His father allows him to ride Ghost Wind alone.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.I loved my daddy. I loved my brothers too. But in the end it was Mitchell Thomas and I who were most like brothers, with a bond that couldn't be broken. The two of us came into Mississippi together by way of East Texas, and that was when we were still boys, long after we had come to our understanding of each other. Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home and both of us being strangers here in Mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“The two of us depended on each other and became as family.”

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