Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Jimmy

I would have made you write a characterization of Jimmy. Name one adjective here to describe Jimmy and support it with an example from the text.

18 comments:

  1. I think that Jimmy is greedy because he sold the kente cloth and got a lot of money, but it still was against his religion.

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  2. greedy-Jimmy just wanted to get money and be rich, and he went against his religion.

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  3. One adjective I would use to describe Jimmy would be greedy because all Jimmy wanted was to get money. He wanted money so bad that he went against his religion and sold the precious kente cloth.

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  4. I think he was careless because he did not say anything to Vanessa when he saw her wearing the Kente cloth.

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  5. I think that Jimmy was greedy and let all of the power, money, and fame that he was experiancing go to his head. Also he wasn't being true to his religion.

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  6. Caring because he gave up a lot of his money for his father operation.

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  7. I think that Jimmy was self centered. He sold the kente cloth in non traditional ways just so that he could get more money and get rich.

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  8. I think Jimmy is greedy as well because he went against his religion just to get more money.

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  9. An adjective to discribe jimmy is that he is disloyal because he made kente cloth for people that didnt respect it.

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  10. I think Jimmy was a bit overzealous to make money, but then he started to care at the end, due to his father's operation.

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  12. Jimmy was greedy because he made the cloth in nontraditional ways just to get money. Jimmy knew that his father would've been very angry with him, but he still went through with it.

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  13. I think that Jimmy is unfortunate because he needed to get money for his fathers surgery but he had to go againts his religon to get it.

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  14. I think Jimmy is greedy. He went against his religion to get more money.

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  15. One adjective to describe Jimmy was greedy. He was greedy because he used the Kente cloth in wrong ways just to gain money. If he really loved the Kente cloth he wouldn't have sold it for those reasons.

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  16. Obfuscatious - He wasnt direct with his father about what he was doing. He was also like this to Vanessa when she was disrespectful to Kente cloth.

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  17. I think Jimmy was a user. He is user because he used Vanessa to help get himself to America.

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  18. I think "Greedy" describes Jimmy. I think this because used Kente cloth in rude ways against his religion. He did this just so he could earn a lot of money. He even knew that his father would be mad but, he still did it anyway so he would be rich.

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