Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Tog…

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Red River Parish, Louisiana - This is Denver's birthplace and the location of the sharecropping plantations he remembers from his childhood.

Haltom City - This is Ron's birthplace, a lower-middle class part of Fort Worth where stripped cars sit in the yards of shabby trailer homes.

Riverside Elementary - This is the place where Ron Hall was cruelly punished as a child for an honest mistake.

Georgia O'Keefe - Paintings by this artist launched Ron Hall's career in selling artwork, and a client who purchases these particular paintings flies Ron in with the...
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