The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Act 1 – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Thomas Owen
Mother
Calls Thoreau David Henry.
Henry, Mother
Who said this and to who: “I’m myself _____. If I’m not, who will I be?”
Waldo
Who said this: “Cast Conformity behind you.”
Lydian
Wife of Waldo.
John
Extroverted version of Henry, his older brother.
John
Dies from a shaving cut.
Bailey
Interactions with this person let the reader know Henry is in reality.
Chair
Used as a student in dream sequence.
Ball
Pompous townsman with a silver-topped cane. Chairman of the Concord School Committee where Henry taught.
Ball, Henry (school)
Who said this and to who: “Obedience. An essential quality in subordinates, whether they are pupils in a classroom or soldiers in a battlefield.”
Ellen
Has a little brother, Edmund, who is in Thoreau’s class.
Locker-box (open side up)
Used as a boat in dream sequence.
Henry, Ellen (Meadow)
Who said this and to who: “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”
Henry, Bailey (jail)
Who said this and to who: “Nobody is [fully awake]. If I ever met a man who was completely awake, how could I look him in the face?”
Henry, Ellen (boat)
Who said this and to who: “But I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable advice from my seniors.”
Locker-box (open side down)
Used as a coffin in dream sequence.
Henry, Mother (church)
Who said this and to who: “God has stopped listening, ____– if He ever DID listen. What kind of God would fail to see the godliness in John? I can’t pray to Him.”
Ellen, Henry
Who said this and to who: “I wonder if–if God lets us be hurt– so we can learn to TRANSCEND the pain . . . ?”
Edward Emerson
Shy eight-year old whose father is famous. Cautious with friendships and closer to his mother.
Walden
Henry’s home in the woods on Waldo’s property.
Henry, Waldo (study)
Who said this and to who: “Why spend the best part of your life earning money so that you can enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it? Why work like a dog so you can pant for a moment or two before you die?”
Waldo, Henry, Lydian (study)
Who said this about who to who: “Perhaps he wants too much.”
Bailey, Henry (jail)
Who said this and to who: “I never could figger out how could it be ONE time here and ANOTHER time somewheres else. Isn’t it NOW all over?”
Sam
Concord’s constable who reluctantly arrests Henry for not paying his taxes.
Sam, Henry (Concord)
Who said this to who: “I got this order. And I got to serve it on ya. Here!”
Henry, Sam (Concord)
Who said this to who: “Well I’m ready right now, _____, to sign off from the government. Where do I sign. Where?”
Henry, Sam (memory jail, Jesus allusion)
Who said this to who: “Risky, ____. You’ll shock the clergy if you lock up a carpenter.”
Henry, Waldo (dream jail)
Who said this to who: “____! What are you doing OUT of jail?”
