Somewhere in the Darkness Guide Sheet 3

Name: Period: Somewhere In The Darkness Guide Sheet 3 Pages 74-103

1) Chronological Order: Place the following events that occurred each day of the novel in chronological order, with 1 being first.

Day 1:

_____ Cookie tells Jimmy that a man has been asking for him at the apartment building.

_____ Crab and Jimmy begin driving to Chicago.

__1__ Mama Jean wakes up Jimmy for school and she leaves for work.

_____ When Jimmy gets to school, he is allowed to go upstairs to take the school wide test.

_____ Crab surprises Mama Jean too and tells her that he wants to take Jimmy with him to Chicago where he has a job lined up.

_____ Jimmy decides to go to school late and asks Cookie for an umbrella.

_____ Jimmy discovers that the man is his father Cephus, or Crab, who has been released from prison.

Day 2: _____ Frank calls Jimmy a punk after Jimmy and Crab have been watching Frank at the gym.

_____ Crab tells Jimmy about how he escaped from prison and is suffering from kidney problems.

_____ Crab and Jimmy find a rooming house to stay at in Chicago.

_____ Crab goes off to “blow some horn” and sends Jimmy back to the rooming house.

__1__ Jimmy wakes up and they have reached Cleveland.

_____ Jimmy meets Mavis, Crab’s lady friend, and Frank, Mavis’s son. 2) Making Inferences: Why does Jimmy imagine his father coming to school like Eddie Grime’s father did? What does this show about how Jimmy defines a father and expects a father to do? (p. 78)

______3) Making Predictions: Why do you think Billy Davis needs Jimmy to come pick up his father? (p. 80)

______4) Summarizing: What does Crab give as the reason for why his back started acting up? (p. 86)

______5) Making Inferences: Why do you think Mavis and Frank don’t show up to go to Arkansas with Crab and Jimmy? (p. 91)

______6) Making Inferences: Crab is constantly lying to other people, including Jimmy. As Crab is filling out paperwork for a rental car he lies about his name. Why do you think Jimmy stays with someone so untrustworthy? (p. 93)

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7) Making Connections: When Jimmy asks Crab why he lied about his name on the rental form, Crab tell Jimmy that because he is sick, it doesn’t matter how he gets what he needs. Do you agree with this? Why or why not? (p. 99)

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8) Making Inferences: Why do you think Jimmy so interested in Crab’s relationship with his father, C. C. Little? (p. 100)

______9) Compare and Contrast: How does the father-son relationship between C.C. Little and Crab compare to the father-son relationship between Crab and Jimmy?

C.C. Little & Crab BOTH Crab & Jimmy

10) Chronological Order: Place the following events that occurred each day of the novel in chronological order, with 1 being first.

Days 3 & 4:

_____ The next morning Crab and Jimmy wait for Mavis and Frank to go with them to Arkansas but they never show up.

_____ Jimmy goes to Vernon’s to pick up Crab who is sick.

_____ Jimmy asks Crab about what his father, C.C. Little was like.

_____ Jimmy goes to the store and when he gets back to the rooming house, he has a message that someone has called for him.

_____ Crab lies about his name on the car rental forms.