Table of Contents
- 1 Why do the narrator and Lou purchase a can of paint?
- 2 How do you think Lou and the narrator feel about the paint they’ve bought once they read the inscription on the wall?
- 3 When the narrator and Lou first see the painter they are?
- 4 Why is the narrator upset with the painter lady?
- 5 Why didn’t Lou and the narrator use the can of white epoxy paint?
- 6 Why doesn’t the narrator want the painter lady to paint the wall?
Why do the narrator and Lou purchase a can of paint?
Why do the narrator and Lou purchase a can of paint? They want to get back at the painter. How do the people In the neighborhood feel when they see what the painter has done to the wall? They are all proud and excited.
How do you think Lou and the narrator feel about the paint they’ve bought once they read the inscription on the wall?
Why don’t Lou and the narrator carry out their plan to recapture the wall? How do you think the two boys feel about having bought paint once they read the inscription on the wall? they felt sorry and sad that they originally wanted to destroy it.
When the narrator and Lou first see the painter they are?
Q. What is the first reaction of the narrator and Lou when they see the painter lady at the wall? They tell her to go away and leave their wall alone. They decide they want to help her paint.
Why do the narrator and Lou buy a can of white epoxy paint?
Why do the narrator and Lou buy a can of white epoxy paint? They couldn’t find any black spray paint. They only found white epoxy paint that they spent their whole allowance on it. They wanted to spray paint their wall.
How does the narrator treat the painter lady?
What is the narrator’s reaction to Mama’s perspective on the painter lady? The narrator ignores Mama’s perspective of the painter lady.
Why is the narrator upset with the painter lady?
The painter lady is in town to paint a mural on the wall at Taliaferro Street. This upsets the narrator and Lou. They see the “painter lady” as an interloper taking possession of “their” wall. It feels like their wall because Lou had chiseled her friend Jimmy Lyons’s name on the wall when he died in Vietnam.
Why didn’t Lou and the narrator use the can of white epoxy paint?
Why do the narrator and Lou buy a can of white epoxy paint? They couldn’t find any black spray paint. They only found white epoxy paint that they spent their whole allowance on it.
Why doesn’t the narrator want the painter lady to paint the wall?
The author stresses that the painter lady is from out of the country and doesn’t look like the people in town. The author describes the painter lady as trying to connect with the people in the town, but experiencing rejection.