PROFESSOR HERBERT:
Professor Herbert wore a gray suit of clothes. The suit matched his gray hair. He is a teacher at the high school. Has an incubator in his classroom.
DAVE: He was the he is a teenager He wears nice school clothes and cares about his education. He helps pa with the chores 'atter' (ha ha) school. Of 10 other children, he is the first to attend a high school.
PA (LUSTER) SEXTON:
Pa’s eyes danced fire. His face was getting red. The red color was coming through the brown, weather-beaten skin on Pa’s face. He has an Old-Fasioned personality and raised 11 children. Wears overalls, big boots, a blue shirt, and a worn out black hat. He has very long legs and is large compared to Professor Herbert, who was already big in Dave's opinion. He didn't know what a germ was and never went to highschool. he has gnarled hands because of the farm work. He is 65 years old.
MA SEXTON:
She is a peace-keeper, but she couldn't convince Luster to not bring the gun to school. Although she said it would embarrass Dave and they could be sued, Pa still refused to act civilly. She had 11 children. She was about Pa's age.
FARM: It has seven cows, nineteen cattle, four mules, twenty-five hogs and a well. it is 6 miles away from the farm and Dave has to walk the entire way. No electricity.
SCHOOL: High school, Nonexistent when Pa was a kid. 6 miles away from school. Mop-able floors. It has black boards in the classrooms.
Metaphor:
His eyes danced fire.
Simile:
1) He looked like a leaf turned brown on the tree among the tree among the treetop filled with growing leaves2) I was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
Dialect: thick southern accent. Dave's dialect is slightly more sophisticated than Pa's.
1) “Send you to high school and you get too onery fer th’ buzzards to smell!”
2) "Why did you haf to stay atter school?"
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