Make+Lemonade+Test+Guide

• I think that LaVaughn continued working for jolly even though she wasn’t getting paid much, her grades were slipping, and her mother didn’t want her to because I believe that she felt that jolly could do it. Lavaughn knew she could was helping Jolly to succeeded and she knew that if someone was helping her a whole bunch to succeed she would want them to keep on helping.

• It was important to LaVaughn that Jeremy’s lemon plant grew because, well, one she promised him it would and two because it shows him that good things can happen and that he should be able to trust people. The lemon plant relates to the title of the story, “Make Lemonade” because well it is a lemon plant and when it grows lemons on it. Jeremy will be able to make lemonade. Also it may relate by the saying of, “When life gives you lemons make lemonade.” The lemon plant also relates to a story the Jolly tells LaVaughn in the book about a blind lady and a orange.

• The turning point for Jolly is when LaVaughn gets her to go to school and to spend more time with her two kids Jilly and Jeremy. I also feel that when Jilly started to choke on the little plastic spider and Jolly gave her CPR while Jeremy dialed the 9 and LaVaughn dialed 11 to call 911 so they could talk to the people on the other line really woke Jolly up. I know it probably isn’t that good that Jolly needs something that big to show her that she can make it through life if she keeps trying and asks for help when she needs it.

• The story about the blind women and the orange affected jolly so much, I think, because it tells her be careful who she trusts and that she can’t change the past. For after the blind lady found out the bad boys gave her a lemon instead of a orange, she didn’t go back and say give me my orange she just used the lemon to make lemonade for her starving children.

• It was important to LaVaughn that her mom called Jolly a hero because the whole time LaVauaghn was babysitting for Jolly her mom would say that she wasn’t worth it and that she didn’t know how to raise kids. Also because maybe later on in life if Jolly did need help and she called LaVaughn’s mom, her mom might actually think about helping in stead of saying no.