Make Lemonade 1. Describe in a few sentences what you know so far about the characters Jolly and LaVaughn.

2. In the extended simile of the bird, what is the narrator trying to say about the difficulties she has in telling the story "just the way it went"?

3. What details suggest that Jolly is finding the demands of motherhood beyond her?

4. The narrator says, "Jolly with her two babies looks at me and her eyes experiment with the word mom. "What do you think that she means"?

5. What evidence is there that LaVaughn lives in a neighborhood that she would want to "get out of"?