What’s Your Savvy?
Name:____________________
1) In the novel
what is a “savvy” within the Beaumont family?
Include three examples from the different characters.
2)
In Chapter 13
Mibs finally begins to cry, and Samson comforts her. For a moment, she wonders if Samson’s savvy is
comforting people and giving them courage.
Then she reflects to herself, “Perhaps Samson’s strengthening touch was just an ordinary sort of human magic,
the kind of magic that exists in the honest, heartfelt concern of one person
for another” (113). Do you
think there is such thing as ordinary human magic? Give one example.
3)
In Chapter 14 Mibs explains, “Momma said that
lots and lots of ordinary folk have a savvy, but most simply don’t recognize it
for what it is. One person might make
strawberry jam so good that no one can get enough of it. Another might know just the right time to
plant corn so that it’s juicy and sweet as sugar on the hottest day of
summer…There are even those folk who never get splashed by mud after a
rainstorm or bit by a single mosquito in the summertime” (122).
Grandpa also
explains to Mibs that “A savvy’s not a
sickness or a disease…it’s not magic or sorcery, either. Your savvy’s in your blood. It’s an inheritance, like our brown eyes or
your grandma’s long toes or her talent for dancing to polka music” (Law 121). What do
you think “savvies” actually symbolize?
4) What do you
think Ingrid Law is telling us about ourselves?
What are some of your savvies? Be as specific as possible. Include an example in life or the time you
first discovered this special power or quality.
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