The narrator of “Mericans.” Micaela is a tolerant young girl who puts up with her brothers, Junior and Keeks, as they horseplay outside the church where they’re all waiting for their grandmother, whom Micaela refers to as “the awful grandmother.” While playing, Micaela’s brothers tell her to pretend to be undesirable characters, and she doesn’t object because she doesn’t want them to exclude her entirely on the grounds that she is a “girl,” which she says has become their “favorite insult.” Finally tiring of her brothers, Micaela goes into the church and kneels beside her grandmother, but she can’t sit still.
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Micaela (Michele) Character Timeline in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
The timeline below shows where the character Micaela (Michele) appears in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Mericans
Young Micaela describes waiting with her brothers—Junior and Keeks—for their “awful grandmother” to emerge from inside a...
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...to be a fighter plane. “I’m a B-Fifty-two bomber, you’re a German,” he yells at Micaela, who doesn’t tell him that she’d rather play “flying feather dancers” because she’s afraid this...
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The inside of the church smells like incense, and Micaela wonders why holy water smells like tears. She stares at her grandmother beside her, who’s...
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Micaela sits outside, where Junior is talking to a foreign couple. Micaela can tell this man...
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