The Education of Little Tree Study Guide Chapters 16-18
Chapter 16
- What is the title of this chapter? Why is it significant?
- What is a “hypocrite,” and what are several examples of hypocrisy in this chapter?
- What are Granpa’s (and Little Tree’s) feelings on organized religion?
- What lesson(s) does Little Tree learn in this chapter? Who/What is/are his teacher(s)?
Chapter 17
- What is the title of this chapter? Why is it significant?
- Describe Mr. Wine.
- What was the “big black box which said Kodak?” What specific things did Mr. Wine do with it?
- What did Mr. Wine give Little Tree? Why was it so special?
- Why did Mr. Wine light a candle?
- Little Tree compares Mr. Wine’s people (the Jews) to the Cherokee. What does Little Tree say?
- What lesson(s) does Little Tree learn in this chapter? Who/What is/are his teacher(s)?
Chapter 18
- What is the title of this chapter? Why is it significant?
- Describe the setting in this chapter. How does the setting affect the plot in this chapter?
- Where do Little Tree and Granpa go after the man and woman visit? Why do they go there? What do they find out? What do they receive?
- Why won’t the lawyer, Mr. Taylor, help Granpa and Little Tree?
- What is ironic about Granma “spilling sugar in practical everything she cooked?” What type of irony is this?
- What is the Dog Star? How is it like the candle Mr. Wine burnt?
- Compare the bus ride to the orphanage to the one in Chapter One.
- What lesson(s) does Little Tree learn in this chapter? Who/What is/are his teacher(s)?