Sunday, May 11, 2014
Selma, Lord, Selma Chs 13-15
What does Sheyann ask her parents for on her birthday? Describe what happens during that particular incident. In chapter 14, the violence and constant danger present in the movement comes home to the girls when someone is killed. Who was it? Why do you think this has such an impact on the girls? How do the people in Selma respond to what has happened? What stands out most to Sheyann about this person's funeral in Chapter 15? Please answer using complete sentences. Spelling counts! You have until Tuesday morning.
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For her birthday present, Sheyann asked her parents to join the marchers and try to register. The danger of the movement comes home when Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot by a trooper in Marion, the seat of Perry County at a march beginning. This has a significant impact on the girls because they all knew him and were in contact with him almost daily. The mood of the movement had become very solemn in Selma. The people mourned the death of Jimmie Lee.
ReplyDeleteWhat stands out most to Sheyann about his funeral is that it rained in sheets that day. She was soaked and didn't have an umbrella as they marched behind the casket to the cemetary. There were so many people there from around the county to show their support. It represented the unity within the Black community. Sheyann felt this sent a message to the whites that they weren't afraid of their clubs or guns and they would continue to march for freedom.
Sheyann asked her parents to join the marchers and try to register. The danger of the movement comes home when Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot by a trooper in Marion, the seat of Perry County at a march beginning. This has a significant impact on the girls because they all knew him and were in contact with him almost daily. The mood of the movement had become very solemn in Selma. The people mourned the death of Jimmie Lee.
ReplyDeleteWhat stands out most to Sheyann about his funeral is that it rained in sheets that day. She was soaked and didn't have an umbrella as they marched behind the casket to the cemetary. There were so many people there from around the county to show their support. It represented the unity within the Black community. Sheyann felt this sent a message to the whites that they weren't afraid of their clubs or guns and they would continue to march for freedom.
What Sheyann wants for her birthday is from her parents more than anything is for them to march and try to register to vote. At first her mother didn't say anything and later asked what she wanted for her birthday and seeing that her answer was the same brought the subject up to Sheyann’s father the night before registration and he shook his head no. But that next morning he asked her what time do they need to be there.
ReplyDeleteThe person who was killed was named Jimmie Lee Jackson. A state trooper shot him after he tried to take his grandfather, who had been injured during a confrontation with a trooper, to a hospital. He went to a hospital in Marion but he was denied entry but was taken into Good Samaritan in Selma but succumbed to an elevated heart rate before sunrise of the next day.
The impact his horrible cruel death had on the girls was that they were in a hostile situation and their enemy didn't care if someone wasn't doing anything wrong or not they would just attack you for no reason other than your apart of this movement. The fact that they could lose their lives at any moment hit them.
The shooting had a sobering affect for the people of Selma. Many people’s fears sort of became a reality for them, the fear that something worse might happen in the future.
The parts of the funeral that stood out most to Sheyann is Dr. Kings speech, her father's new blue suit, and Jimmies mother crying in the front of the church and the fresh bruises on her body.
She wanted her parents as a birthday present to march with them and to try to register. When they get everybody out of their beds in the middle of the night, they meet at the church and they tell them about the people in marion. Those people were beated and all they did was praying. Some of them were bleeding and one man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot. Eventhough it didn't happen in Selma, everybody was really scared. Rachel and Sheyann had talked about death before, but now it had really happend. Everybody in the church was just silent, because if it happens in Marion it could also happen in Selma and so they didn't know whether to stop the demonstrations or to keep demonstrating.
ReplyDeleteSheyann remembered his mother sitting in the front and she still had marks in her face, because she was being hit by the troopers. She sit there and she was just crying.
Sheyann wanted her parents to vote more than anything. Her father said no when he firsted heard her idea and said no. Sheyann mother didn't ask her what she had wanted for get birthday at first she told get ask she wanted was for her partners to vote and register. Jimny Lee Jackson was shot and kilted by a starte trooper and it made the people scared for their life. One thing I remember was when sheyann seen that mark still on hrr mothers face by being beaten by a state trooper.
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ReplyDeleteWhat Sheyann wants for her birthday from her parents is to join the march and try to register to vote. Jimmie lee Jackson was shot in the stomach by a trooper and later died. Some of the people were shocked because they knew him, the girls were sad. When sheyann went to the funeral she remembered Jimmie mother still marked and bruised up.
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