Taste of Salt

Snapshot

A very descriptive scene

Roro

Actually did run away with Djo from the sugar plantation

La Saline

Area in Port-au-Prince where Jeremie lives

Simile

Comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Kongos

Derogatory name for Haitians

Duvalier

Dictator of Haiti

Eulalie

Djo's sister who teaches him to read and write

Father Aristide

First democratically elected president of Haiti

Julio

Gives Djo a raft to escape

Setting of Taste of Salt

Haiti in the 1990's

Maman

Is Jeremies mother who thinks education is a ladder to climb out of La Saline

Ton Ton Macoutes

Men paid to scare and injure people in Haiti

Lagurie

No one wants to work on his team at Central Gloria

Emilen

Orderly who takes care of Djo in hospital

Lefanmi Selavi

Orphanage where Djo and Lally live for awhile

Colmado man

Sells Djo a used coffin

Auntie

Thinks education is a waste of time

Setting

Time and place of a story

Personification

When an idea or inanimate object is given human qualities.

Metaphor

comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as

Lally

is killed by the Ton Ton Macoutes

thoughtshot

is what the character thinks descriptively

Donay

plans to runaway with Djo from the sugar plantation

5 ways authors develop characters

what the character says, thinks/feels, does, and looks like