BGD part 3 people and parsing poetry

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"I know / if I wanted to / I could write anything. / Leers becoming words, words gathering meaning, / becoming / thoughts outside my head / becoming sentences / written by / Jacqueline Amanda Woodson."

"But Hope and Dell tell us / that we're too immature to even begin to understand/ ... / Somemes, Roman and I leave Hope and Dell alone / go to another corner of the room and become / what the others call us - the two youngest"

"Immature," & "the two youngest" - Being the youngest, these terms drive me nuts.

"In Greenville, my grandfather is too sick / to work anymore, so my grandmother has a full-me job."

Tough questions - How sick is Daddy?

Who likes the stories/lies that Jacqueline tells?

Uncle Robert

"But it is / a long-distance call / from Greenville to Brooklyn, too much money / and not enough me to explain..."

What does this mean? Did a long-distance call really cost a lot? Well, it did. The chart below says that to call FROM Brooklyn, NY, TO Columbia, South Carolina, it costs $4.25 for the first 3 minutes of the call; aer that, it was an addional $1.25/minute. So, a 30 minute call in 1910 , would have cost $38.00. ● In 1970 (approximate me of this poem), that same $38 would have cost ~ $300.00. ● $300 in 1970 is equivalent to ~ $1,200.00 in 2021.

"Our feet are beginning to belong / in two different worlds - Greenville / and New York. We don't know how to come / home / and leave / home / behind us."

While Hope, Dell, and Jacqueline are glad to visit their grandparents, they don't feel at home like they did before.

"We remember Greenville / without her, count our blessings in silence / and chew."

While they are eating syrupless pancakes and thinking of all the delicious food they had in Greenville, Hope, Dell, and Jacqueline "remember Greenville / without her." While they missed their mother when she was in New York and they were in Greenville, right now they are missing how it was then.

"I'm catching you worrying, he says. / Too young for that. So just cut it out now, you hear? / His voice / so strong and clear today, I can't help smiling."

Words of the Wiser - Daddy is telling Jacqueline to stop worrying.

"Down south, there was always someplace else to go / you could step out into the rain and / Grandma would let you / lift your head and stick out your tongue / be happy."

Words of the Wiser - In this poem, there are two "Wiser" ones; two people who both feel like they are correct: ● Mary Ann wants them inside during the rain. ● Grandma lets the kids play in the rain.

"He hands / my mother a record, a small 45 " (What is a "small 45"?)

a 7-inch vinyl single record; the name is derived from its play speed, 45 rpm (Revoluons Per Minute) ; depending on the length of the songs, these would usually hold 2 songs (1 per side)

Bushwick

a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn

Far Rockaway

a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens

James Brown

1933-2006 ● an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader ● the central founder of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music ● oen referred to by the honorific nickname, "Godfather of Soul" ● career lasted over 50 years ● was one of the first ten inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on January 23, 1986.

"There is only one other house on our block / where a father doesn't live."

This makes Jacqueline feel less than everybody else, feel different, feel like she is missing something.

"And even though she's smarter than anything, / this is something / my sister can't even begin / to understand."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Dell is smart, but not about the notebook.

Contrasts and Contradicons - The hot, hot day vs. the cool water from the johnny pump. "Once, I saw my / never-ever-barefoot-outs ide-in-the-city mother / take off her sandals, / sand at the curb / and let the cool water run over her feet."

Absolute or Extreme Language - Do you get the feeling that Mary Ann almost never (Jacqueline says "Once") goes barefoot outside in the city???

"This place is loud and strange / and nowhere I'm ever going to call / home."

Absolute or Extreme Language - Jacqueline is certain she will not like New York City. It is NOT home to her.

"After the falling..."

Again and Again - Woodson uses this phrase to begin 5 of the stanzas in this poem. This was a difficult me for Mary Ann. Kay was only 10 months older than Mary Ann and they were quite close, almost like twins. "other people's memory" (pgs. 17-18): "Just like your mama and Caroline... and so close, you could hardly tell / where one ended and the other started."

"Maybe it's another New York City / the southerners talk about. Maybe that's where / there is money falling from the sky, / diamonds speckline / the sidewalks."

Aha Moment - New York City is not what people promised - no money falling from the sky or diamonds on the sidewalks.

"And here, my Aunt Kay memories end."

Aunt Kay died.

"My mother drops us off at the Kingdom Hall door, / watches us walk / down the aisle / ... / Then our mother is gone, back home / or to a park bench, / ... / She has a full-me job now. Sunday, she says, is her day of rest."

Because she promised her mother, Mary Ann brings her kids to the Kingdom Hall church. But, she doesn't join them; this is her one day off for the week.

Henny Penny

Chicken Little Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Lile ..., is a European folk tale with a moral ... about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end . The phrase " The sky is falling! " features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicang a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent . Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries ( source ) (=2500 years; so, roughly, 480 BC)

"The city is seling around me, my words / come fast now / when I speak, the so curl of the South on my tongue / is near gone."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Again, Jacqueline is adjusng to this new life in the city: she is speaking faster now and her Southern accent is disappearing.

For a long me, there is only one tree on our block. / And though it sll feels / strange to be so far away from so dirt / beneath bare feet / the ground is firm here and the one tree blooms / wide enough to shade four buildings."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Brooklyn (full of cement and buildings) is so different from Greenville (trees, dirt, crops). BUT, Jacqueline is adjusng to this new life: "the one tree blooms / wide enough to shade four buildings."

"The rain here is different than the way / it rains in Greenville. No sweet smell of honeysuckle. / No so squish of pine. No slip and slide through the grass. / Just Mama saying, Stay inside today. It's raining, / and me at the window. Nothing to do but / watch / the grade sidewalk grow darker, / watch / the drops slide down the glass pane, / watch / people below me move fast, heads bent."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Jacqueline compares the rain in Brooklyn and Greenville: ● Brooklyn ○ stay inside, inside with nothing to do but watch rain slide down the window and people outside trying to stay dry ● Greenville ○ sweet smell of honeysuckle, the so squish of pine, slipping and sliding through the grass Again and Again - ● watch - "the gray sidewalk grown darker" ● watch - "the drops slide down the glass pane" ● watch - "people below me move fast, heads bent." Words of the Wiser - ● "Just Mama saying, Stay inside today. It's raining"

"Was his voice deep or high? / Was he a hugger like Grandma Georgiana hold us / like she never planned to let go or / did he hug hard and fast like Mama, / planng her warm lips to our foreheads where / the kids lingered / long aer / she said I love you, pulled her sweater on and le / for work each morning."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Comparing how the family showed their love and wondering where her father fits in to all of this: ● Grandma Georgiana - long hugs ● Mama - hard and fast hugs

"the other kids circle around us. Laughing at / our hair, our clothes, the names our parents / have given us, / our city way of talking - too fast, too many words / to hear at once / too many big words coming out of /my sister's mouth."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Hope, Dell, and Jacqueline have changed. They no longer have their Southern look or sound. They now look and sound Northern. Also, Dell uses big words.

(The kids are going with Robert to South Carolina, but Mary Ann & Roman are not.) "I'm coming too, he says. / But he isn't coming. / Not this me."

Contrasts and Contradicons - It's difficult to leave Roman to go to South Carolina, but he can't because he is in the hospital.

Aha Moment - New York City is not what people promised - no money falling from the sky or diamonds on the sidewalks. "Maybe it's another New York City / the southerners talk about. Maybe that's where / there is money falling from the sky, / diamonds speckline / the sidewalks. / Here there is only gray rock, cold / and treeless as a bad dream. Who could love this place - where no pine trees grow, / no porch swing moves / with the weight of your grandmother."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Jacqueline compares New York City to Greenville ● NYC - No money falling from the sky or diamonds on the sidewalks. ● Greenville - pine trees, porch swings, grandmother

"Some days we miss / the way the red dirt lied up and landed / against our bare feet. / Here / the sidewalks burn hot all summer long. / Here we wear shoes. Broken boles / don't always get swept up right away."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Jacqueline compares the city to Greenville: ● Brooklyn - ○ "Here / the sidewalks burn hot all summer long. / Here we wear shoes. Broken boles / don't always get swept up right away." ● Greenville - ○ "Some days we miss / the way the red dirt lied up and landed / against our bare feet."

"Everyone knows my sister / is brilliant. / ... / She is gifted / we are told. / ... / I am not gifted."

Contrasts and Contradicons - The two sisters are different: Dell is gied, Jacqueline is not (at least, she feels that she isn't).

"This is what reminds us of Greenville, / the Saturday-night pressing of san ribbons, / Hope struggling with the know in his e, / our hair oiled and pulled back into braids, / our mother's hands less sure / than our grandmother's, the parts corked, the braids / coming undone. And now, Dell and I / are le to iron our own dresses. / My hand, / my mother says, / as she stands at the sink, holding a crying Roman / with one hand, / her other holding a bole of milk / under hot running water, / are full."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Things are different in Brooklyn than in Greenville. In Greenville, their grandmother did their hair, ironed their clothes, and got them ready. In Brooklyn, Mary Ann is too busy so the kids have to take care of things themselves.

"Alina and I want / more than anything to walk back into our classroom / press our hands against our hearts. Say, / 'I pledge allegiance..." loud / without our jealous God looking down on us. / Without our parents finding out. / Without our mothers' voices / in our heads saying, You are different. / Chosen. / Good."

Contrasts and Contradicons - Unlike Gina, Alina & Jacqueline long to be like everybody else, saying the pledge and singing patrioc songs. But the words of their mothers are in their ears, saying, "You are different. / Chosen. / Good."

"In Brooklyn there are no more calls from Ohio. / No more calls from our father or Grandpa Hope / or Grandma Grace / or David or Anne or Ada or Alicia. / It is as if each family / has disappeared from the other."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Her father's and his family are just not a part of the kids' life.

"And for a moment, I think about Jack ... our father. / But then / quickly as it comes / the thought moves on. / Out of sight, out of mind, my brother says. / But only a part of me believes this is true."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Jacqueline thinks about her father for a little, but then doesn't. But she doesn't really believe what Hope says about out of sight, out of mind. Just because she doesn't see her father, does not mean she doesn't think about her father.

"Robert opens his hand to reveal a pair of silver earrings, / says to my sister, This is a gi for how smart you are. / I want / to be smart like Dell, I want / someone to hand me silver and gold / just because my brain clicks into thinking whenever / it needs to but / I am not smart like Dell so I watch her press / the silver moons into her hears"

Contrasts and Contradictions - Jacqueline compares herself to her sister. She doesn't feel as smart as Dell.

"Some days in this new place / there is only a box of pancake mix / an egg, and faucet water / ... / wishing like anything / we were back in Greenville, / where there was always something good / to eat."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Jacqueline compares the food that they eat in New York to the food they ate in Greenville ● Food in New York - syrupless pancakes sticking to the pan ● Food in Greenville - "always something good / to eat," collards, melons, syrup, butter, milk

"Gina is the true believer. Her Bible open / during reading me. But Alina and I walk through / our roles as Witnesses as though this is the part / we've been given in a play / and once offstage, we run free, sing / "American the Beauful and "The Star-Spangled Banner" / far away from our families - knowing every word."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Jacqueline feels like they are acting the part of a Witness, but not really meaning it.

"It's hard to understand / the way my brain works - so different / from everybody around me. / How each new story / I'm told becomes a thing / that happens, / in some other way / to me...!

Contrasts and Contradictions - Jacqueline sees that her brain is different from everybody else's.

"I say, I know a girl ten mes smarter than her. She gets / diamonds every me she gets a hundred on a test. / And Robert looks at me, his dark eyes smiling, asks, / Is that something you made up? Or something real? / In my own head, / it's real as anything. / In my head / all kinds of people are doing all kinds of things. / I want to tell him this, that / the world we're living in right here in Bushwick isn't / the only place."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Robert asks, is it real or is it make believe? To Jacqueline, even the things she makes up are real. "In my own head, / it's real as anything. / In my head / all kinds of people are doing all kinds of things."

"On the days when the heat / stops your breath, ... / the johnny pump / is blasng cool water everywhere/ and us and other kids running through it, / refreshed and laughing."

Contrasts and Contradictions - The hot, hot day vs. the cool water from the johnny pump.

"And for many days aer that, there is no baby / in our house and I am finally / the baby girl again, wishing / I wasn't. / Wishing there wasn't so much quiet / where my brother's laugh used to be"

Contrasts and Contradictions - There is now quiet where there used to be happy baby noises.

"Keep making up stories, my uncle says. / You're lying, my mother says."

Contrasts and Contradictions - Uncle Robert likes the stories and encourages Jacqueline to keep creating them. Mary Ann does not like the stories/lies.

"Soon, it'll be near evening and Daddy and I / will walk slow / back into the house where I'll pull the Epsom Salt / from the shelf / fill the dishpan with warm water, massage / his swelling hands."

Daddy is not well, and Jacqueline is trying to help him feel beer.

"Somemes, I lie about my father. / He died, I say, in a car wreck or / He fell off a roof or maybe / He's coming soon. / Next week and / next week and / next week

Dell corrects Jacqueline when she hears this: "Says, / She's making up stories again. / Says, / We don't have a father anymore. / Says, / Our grandfather's our father now. / Says, / Somemes, that's the way things happen." In the background informaon about Jacqueline Woodson, we learned that she liked to lie and get away with it: "I also told a lot of stories as a child. Not "Once upon a me" stories but basically, outright lies. I loved lying and geng away with it! There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying but I didn't stop until fifth grade."

"My whole family knows I can't sing. My voice / my sister says, is just left of the key. Just right / of the tune. / But I sing anyway, whenever I can. / ... / It's the music around the words that I hear / in my head, even though / everyone swears I can't hear it. / Strange that they don't hear / what I hear. / Strange that it sounds so right / to me."

Dell says that Jacqueline can't sing: she sings in the wrong key (she's not hing the right notes) and she singing a different tune (it's like she's singing the song with a different beat and rhythm). But Jacqueline loves the music; it's the music of the words that Jacqueline hears and loves.

"And it's not even strange that it feels the way / it's always felt / like the place we belong to. / Like home."

Everything in South Carolina feels right to Jacqueline: ● Her grandmother's kitchen - "big and yellow and smelling of" pound cake ● Her grandmother tearing collard greens at the sink ● The crows making noise outside ● Hope leng the screen door slam, their grandmother yelling at him, and him apologizing ● Having lemonde on the porch swing ● The swing whining like before ● Hope & Dell playing checkers ● Jacqueline falling asleep, leaning against Daddy's shoulder

Johnny Pump

Fire hydrant

"I am in love with everything around me.../ There is nothing more beauful than P.S. 106. / Nothing more perfect than my first-grade classroom. / No one more kind than Ms. Feidler, who meets me / at the door each morning, / takes my hand from my sister's, smiles down and says / Now that Jacqueline is here, the day can finally begin. / And I believe her. / Yes, I truly believe her."

First grader Jacqueline is in love with school: the school, the classroom, the teacher.

"Down south already feels like a long me ago / but the stories in my head / take me back there, set me down in Daddy's garden / where the sun is always shining."

Flashback - Jacqueline is remembering what it was like in Greenville.

"I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them / then blow gently, / watch them float / right out of my hands."

Foreshadowing - Jacqueline wants to be a writer.

"But Gina / always looks back at us - as if to say, / I'm watching you. As if to say, / I know."

Gina seems to know what Alina & Jacqueline are thinking, that they are only acting the part of a Witness. This seems to make Jacqueline nervous.

"And when she says, I love you, too / the South is so heavy in her mouth / my eyes fill up with the missing of / everything and everyone / I've ever known."

Hearing her grandmother speak, Jacqueline missing her grandmother and the South.

"I am six years old and / my sister tells me our school was once a castle. / I believe her. The school stretches for a full city block."

Hyperbole - The school didn't used to be a castle, but it's BIG and castle-like.

What does Jacqueline write for the first me "without anybody's help"? Be specific.

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

"In all our moving, we've forgoen our family in Ohio, / forgoen our father's voice, the slow drawl / of his words, / the way he and his brother David made jokes / that weren't funny / and laughed as though they were."

Jacqueline and her siblings haven't seen their father in a while, and are forgeng what he's like: "the way he and his brother David made jokes / that weren't funny / and laughed as though they were."

"And somehow, one day, it's just there / speckled black-and-white, the paper / inside smelling like something I could fall right into, / live there - inside those clean white pages. / ... / Nothing in the world is like this - / a bright white page with / pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil / the so hush of it / moving finally / one day / into leers."

Jacqueline gets her first composion book. We know she sll can't write (Dell says: "And why does she need a notebook? She can't even write!"). Jacqueline is in love with wring, and she can't even write yet.

"And for many days my heart hurts with the sadness / that such a nice woman will not be a part of God's / new world. / It isn't fair, I say to my grandmother when / so many days have passed. / I want to go back. I want to give her something / for free."

Jacqueline quesons the fairness of a woman not having enough money to give to buy a Jehovah's Witness publicaon.

"When I read, the words twist / twirl across the page. / When they sele, it is too late. / The class has already moved on."

Jacqueline struggles with reading. Her class goes too fast for her. By the me she understands what she's read, the class has moved on to the next thing.

"Maybe the truth is somewhere in between / all that I'm told / and memory."

Jacqueline wonders if the truth about her story telling isn't that they are stories or lies, that they are entertaining or they will lead to stealing. Maybe the truth is somewhere in between.

Why don't Jacqueline, Gina, and Alina say the Pledge of Allegiance?

Jehovah's Witnesses don't say the pledge because they see this as worshiping an idol.

"His feet are magic."

Metaphor - His feet aren't magic. Jacqueline means that Robert is a good dancer.

"So many games, we don't know / where to begin playing, so we let Roman choose. / And he chooses Trouble / because he likes the sound the die makes / when it pops inside / its plasc bubble. And for days and days, / it is Christmas in November, / games to play when our homework is done / ... / Somemes, Roman and I leave Hope and Dell alone / go to another corner of the room and become / what the others call us - the two youngest, playing games we know the rules to / tic-tac-toe and checkers, / hangman and connect the dots"

Metaphor - It's not really Christmas in November, but it feels like it is for Jacqueline and her siblings because they now have a lot of new games to play.

"This place is a Greyhound bus ... / This place is a driver yelling, / New York City, last stop. / Everybody off."

Metaphor - Jacqueline is comparing New York City to a bus AND to a bus driver yelling.

"And the people from Greenville / brought people from Spartanburg / and Charleston / and all of them talked / like our grandparents talked / and ate what we ate / so they were red dirt and pine trees / they were fireflies in jelly jars / and lemon-chiffon ice cream cones. / They were laughter on hot city nights / hot milk on cold city mornings, / good food and good mes / fancy dancing and soul music. / They were family ."

Metaphors (Making a statement that doesn't make sense literally, like "me is a thief." It only makes sense when the similaries between the two things become apparent or someone understands the connecon between the two words.) ● so they were red dirt and pine trees ● they were fireflies in jelly jars / and lemon-chiffon ice cream cones. / ● They were laughter on hot city nights / hot milk on cold city mornings, / good food and good mes / fancy dancing and soul music. ● They were family.

P.S 106

Public School #106 - Elementary schools in New York City are typically referred to as "PS" (Public School) and a number.

"Holding / ght through the scary parts, unl we tell him / Scooby-Doo will save the day. Bugs Bunny will get away, Underdog will arrive before the train hits / Sweet Polly Purebred." Who are these characters?

Scooby-Doo - ● a dog and his friends (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy) solve mysteries Famous lines: ● "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" ● "And I would have goen away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Bugs Bunny - ● is an animated cartoon character ● created in the late 1930s ● voiced originally by Mel Blanc. ● best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros ● starred in more than 160 cartoon shorts produced between 1940 and 1964. ● has since appeared in feature films, compilaon films, TV series, music records, comics, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials ● has also appeared in more films than any other cartoon character ● is the 9th most-portrayed film personality in the world, ● has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [ source ] Famous lines: ● "What's up, Doc?" ● "That's all, folks!" Underdog - ● an American animated television series that ran from 1964-1967 ● Underdog alter ego is Shoeshine Boy ● Underdog appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being vicmized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" Famous lines: ● "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" ● "Look in the sky!" "It's a plane!" "It's a bird!" "It's a frog!" "A frog?" "Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog, It's just lile old me ... Heh-heh-heh. Underdog." Polly Purebred - ● Underdog's love interest ● canine TV reporter Famous lines: ● She was a helpless damsel in distress most of the me and had a habit of singing, "Oh, where, oh, where has my Underdog gone? Oh, where, oh, where can he be?"

"When I say, My brother, the people / wear doubt / thick as a cape / unl we smile / and the cape falls."

Simile (A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is oen introduced by like or as. Like a metaphor, but a simile uses the words "like" and "as.") "the people / wear doubt / thick as a cape" Roman looks different from Hope, Dell, and Jacqueline, so when people on the street see all four kids, they don't believe they are related... unl they all smile and show they all have a gap between their two front teeth.

"And then one day, Roman won't get up, / No laughter - just tears when we hold him. / More crying when we put him down."

Something is wrong with Roman. Mary Ann takes him to the hospital, but when she comes back, he isn't with her. Tough Questions - What is wrong with Roman?

First grade? What about kindergarten?

The first kindergarten in the world opened in 1837 in Blankenburg, Germany. ● The first public-school kindergarten in the United States opened in the 1870s in St. Louis, Missouri. ● However, kindergarten didn't become required in New York until 2013.

● "I am always the first to cry." ○ - because the other girls hit and pinch Jacqueline ● "My sister's tears are slow to come. But when they do, it isn't sadness." ○ - because the other girls steal Dell's ribbons and hide them in their pockets, inside their stockings, and inside their lunch pails. ● "Hope is silent - his name, they say, belongs to a girl, / his ears, they laugh / stick out too far from his head."

The other kids at Mrs. Hughes's Nursery and Day School are not nice to Hope, Dell, and Jacqueline.

Why do they only have syrupless pancakes to eat?

They are too poor for anything else.

patent-leather Mary Janes

patent-leather- ● a leather with a hard smooth glossy surface [ source ] Mary Janes - ● is an American term for a closed, low-cut shoe with one or more straps across the instep.

1. Who considers the stories that Jacqueline tells are actually lies? 2. What does she say will happen one day?

stories that Jacqueline tells are actually lies? 2. What does she say will happen one day? 1. Mary Ann, Jacqueline's mother 2. "If you lie, she says, one day you'll steal."

"My mother says there is lead in his blood / from the paint he finds a way to pick / and eat off our bedroom wall / every me our backs are turned."

● Lead paint is hazardous. It can cause nervous system damage, stunted growth, kidney damage, and delayed development. ● It is dangerous to children because it tastes sweet, therefore encouraging children to put lead chips and toys with lead dust in their mouths. Lead paint can cause reproducve problems. Lead is also considered a likely carcinogen (something that causes cancer). High levels of exposure can be lethal. ● The U.S. banned lead paint in 1977 in residenal properes and public buildings, along with toys and furniture containing lead paint in order "to reduce the risk of lead poisoning in children who may ingest paint chips or peelings." ● As of 2018, there are an esmated 37 million homes and apartments with lead paint in the United States.

Piragua

● a Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert, shaped like a cone, consisng of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup. ○ [pi-rah-gwuh] ○ The word piragua is derived from the combinaon of the Spanish words pirámide ("pyramid") and agua ("water"). ○ Unlike the American snow cone which is round and resembles a snowball, the piragua is pointy and shaped like a pyramid. ○ Piraguas are sold by vendors, known as piragüeros, from small, tradionally brightly-colored pushcarts offering a variety of flavors. Besides Puerto Rico, piraguas can be found in mainland areas of the United States with large Puerto Rican communies, such as New York and Central Florida.

whip-poor-wills

● a nocturnal nightjar ( a medium-sized, long-winged, twilight or nocturnal bird ) ● has a short bill, short legs, and so moled plumage and feeds on insects which they catch on the wing ● of chiefly eastern North America with a loud repeated call suggesve of its name ○ [ source ] ● it is hard to see because of its camouflage [ source ]