Friday

Journal Entry 10

Pages 292-315

5 Comments
  • Miriam is in abusive relationship with Sabelo, in which she is kicked, and punched and beaten.
  • Miriam has been so traumatized by the beating that she starts having feelings again of wanting to killing herself.
  • Miriam finds out that her father has cancer. it has strated in his prostate and spread to his rest of his body.
  • In order to try and slow it they had to remove his "manhood".
  • No matter what she has been going through such as being forced to abandon finals she is still determined to matriculate

4 Questions

  • what are enemas?
  • why does mama laugh when papa tells her and them how he was approached by men with machetes and spears?
  • Why arent they overjoyed that their familydidnt lose a inportant figure in their life?
  • has papa losted his courage to standup to the Inkatha because he doesnt go to the clnic anymore?

3 Vocabulary Words

  • Galling (Pg. 294)-Causing extreme irritation or chagrin
  • Fomenting (Pg. 294)- To promote the growth of
  • Disembowled (Pg. 281)- to cut or slash open the abdomen of, as by bayoneting, so as to expose or remove the viscera.

2 Literacy Techniques

  • Simile (Pg. 291) " dispite my head feeling like lead".
  • Metaphor (Pg. 281) " he's stone dead"

1 Sentence Summary

  • When Miriam starts to get back on track with school, war breaks out in Alexandra between ANC supporters and Inkatha supporters.

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