Throughout Sugar, Sugar compares the people in her life to the animals she hears about in Br’er Rabbit and Dragon stories. How do these comparisons, and the way Sugar uses them to describe people, work to reinforce the theme of cultural empathy?

Sugar has a complicated relationship with her name, but ultimately ends up loving it. Describe this evolution using examples from the text.

In what ways do Sugar, Billy, and Beau pave the way for intercultural relationships at River Road? How does Jewell Parker Rhodes use these three characters to comment on generational differences in Sugar?