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Character Analysis. Delphine's middle sister enjoys playing pranks, running, and yelling with little Fern. The two of them are attached at the hip—well, except when Vonetta colors all over Fern's doll just to be mean. We'll give Vonetta the benefit of the doubt since she's just a kid and Fern's her sister.
- One Crazy Summer Characters
Vonetta. Delphine's middle sister enjoys playing pranks,...
- One Crazy Summer Characters
One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010. The novel is about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, visiting their mother in Oakland, California, during the summer of 1968.
- Rita Williams-Garcia
- 2010
One Crazy Summer. Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Vonetta. Delphine's middle sister enjoys playing pranks, running, and yelling with little Fern. The two of them are attached at the hip—well, except when Vonetta colors all over Fern's doll just to be mea... Hirohito. Delphine meets Hirohito at the Center and immediately judges him.
One Crazy Summer tells the story of sisters Delphine, Vonetta, and Fem, who spend a summer in Oakland, California as members of a day camp run by the Black Panther Party, of which their mother is a member.
Vonetta, the most social of the three sisters, begins making friends the next day. A member of the Black Panthers constantly ridicules the Gaither sisters for not being “black enough,” which prompts Delphine to watch over her sisters at the People's Center.
A peripheral member of the Black Panther movement who grudgingly donates her time, supplies, and services as a poet, artist, and printer, she is immensely selfish and self-interested. Vonetta Gaither. This character is nine years old and enjoys the spotlight. Among her sisters, she becomes the most impressionable to Black Panther ideology.
