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Sing, Unburied, Sing (Characterization (Pop (Role model for Jojo (Father…

- - - - Father figure for Jojo (whipped him when he was young), but biological grandfather of Jojo
      - protected Jojo and Kayla from Michael and Leonie's fighting and Leonie's smoking
  - - - Leaves Jojo alone after her fight with Michael (p.13)
      - Didn't notice when Jojo injured his foot (p. 16)
      - Is in too deep and is dragging her kids down with her (p. 80)
  - - - trouble maker
- - - - Novels?
      - Poems
      - Short Stories
  - - - The story becomes fragmented as it switches from narrative perspective between chapters
      - Story switches settings (Time period) and is shown by italics in the text
      - Readers learn about Richie in fragments through Pop's stories.
        
        Readers empathize with Richie because we learn about his character at a young age in the beginning and then we feel sorry for him later on when we learn he was repeatedly whipped.
      - We learn about Michael through Leonie's perspective even though he is not directly in the story in the beginning.
        
        this allows readers to learn about a character who will appear later on
  - - - page 130 Kayla vomits, Commotion in the car, Richie stands outside the car, p 131 "The bird, the bird" Kayla says and "I'm going home." Richie says.
      - page 126 - Richie's story, "I'm going home." 127 - Kayla, "See the birds?" and "All the birds go bye," and "My tummy hurts"
  - - - Page 150 - Leonie wonders what their next possible child will look like if they had another. She thinks, "if we have another baby, we could get it right."
      - I don't want Leonie giving her that. I know that's what she think she need to do, but she ain't Mam. She ain't Pop. She ain't never healed nothing or grown nothing in her life, and she don't know" (107).
      - Page 147 - Leonie thinks, "It feels good to be mean, to speak past past the baby I cant hit and let that anger touch another. The one I'm never good enough for. Never Mama for..."
      - Page - 147 Leonie is frustrated by the fact that she isn't as good of a mother like her mother was.
      - Page 130- "Leonie looks disappointed he's stopped touching her and leans across the seat towards him." Leonie is jealous.
  - - - "I want to tell her: You don't know what you doing. And then: You ain't Mam. But I don't. The worry bubbling up in me like water boiling over the lip of a pot,
      - "The bird, the bird," she says. the boy leans into the window and blurs at the edges. He says: "I'm going home."
    - - We are given a multitude of perspectives. Some from "Spirits" others from living people.What if these perspectives are meant to make the reader question their personal beliefs in the spiritual.