Read chapters from 29 to 30 and answer the following questions

1. What impact on the family’s living conditions did the aftermath of the Coalhouse’s act make? Why was it the Father who suffered more severely?

2. Speak about Willie Conklin and some transformations of the public opinion towards him.

3. Describe the baseball match and how it changed the Father’s mood. Speak about the atmosphere in which the most loves sport of America was being played? What didn’t the Father approve of?

4.

Look up the dictionary for the following words and phrases:

Adversity (n)

Flamboyance (n)

Industrious (adj)

Instantaneous (adj)

Mot­tle (v)

Persevere (v)

Deployment (n)

Deliberation (n)

Cuspidor (n)

Veal (n)

Bombastic (adj)

Craven (adj)

Shenanigan (n)

Felon (n)

Vile (adj)

Billet (v)

Demean (v)

Sway (v)

Perpetrator (n)

Ostensibly (adv)

Bait (v)

Cobblestone (n)

Abreast (adv)

Presence of mind (phr)

Inferno (n)

Engulf (v)

Pall (n)

Swear in (v)

Fluster (v)

Drove (n)

Brute (n)

Excrescence (n)

Tail (n)

Snare (n)

Forthright (adj)

Physiognomy (n)

Stifling (adj)

Waif (n)

Wedlock (n)

Stable (n)

Admonish (v)

Plod (v)

Emulation (n)

Smug (adj)

Hawk (v)

Raucous (adj)

Inning (n)

Barreled trunk

Pugnacious (adj)

Taunt (n)

Strident (adj)

Caw (n)

Dugout (n)

Roundhouse (n)

Blotch (v)

Expectorant (n)

Antic (n)

Mascot (n)

Avidly (adv)

Scaffold (n)

The diamond (n)

Hurler (n)

Pennant (n)

Remand (v)

Cultural Notes:

Saratoga Springs - a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. While the word "Saratoga" is known to be a corruption of a Native American place name, authorities disagree on what the exact word was, and hence what it meant. The city is near the center of Saratoga County in upstate New York.

Roman candle - Roman candle is a traditional type of firework, that ejects one or more stars or exploding shells.

The Philippine campaigns - was the Allied campaign to defeat Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II. The invasion commenced on October 20, 1944 and hostilities continued until the war's end.

Boogie man - is a legendary ghost-like monster. The bogeyman has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is just an amorphous embodiment of terror. Bogeyman can be used metaphorically to denote a person or thing of which someone has an irrational fear. Parents often say that if their child is naughty, the bogeyman will get them, in an effort to make them behave. The bogeyman legend may originate from Scotland, where such creatures are sometimes called bogles, boggarts, or boggers.

Mick - an ethnic slur for a person of Irish heritage (possibly deriving from the patronymic Mac or Mc in many Irish surnames); a Roman Catholic of Irish descent.

The Giants - are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

Coogan’s bluff - is the name of a promontory located in upper Manhattan in New York City. Rising abruptly from the Harlem River, it is colloquially regarded as the boundary between the neighborhoods of Harlem and Washington Heights.

The bluff overlooks the former site of the Polo Grounds, where Major League Baseball's New York Giants played their home games prior to their move to San Francisco after the end of the 1957 season; as a result, the name "Coogan's Bluff" was often used, particularly by journalists, to denote the Polo Grounds itself, much the same way "Chavez Ravine" is frequently used today to refer to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (just as the Angels did during their time there), the latter being located therein. However, the ballpark sat in Coogan's Hollow, the bottomland beneath the bluff. The John T. Brush Stairway down Coogan's Bluff is one of the few remaining parts of the Polo Grounds, which now occupied by the Polo Grounds Towers housing complex.

The El – a rapid transit system that serves in the United States. This name for the rail system applies to the whole system, as well as its elevated, subway, at-grade and open-cut segments. The use of the nickname dates from the earliest days of the elevated railroads. Newspapers of the late 1880s referred to proposed elevated railroads in Chicago as '"L" roads. The first route to be constructed, the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad gained the nickname "Alley Elevated", or "Alley L".

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