Thursday

Journal Entry 8

Pages 233-260

5 Comments

  • Miriam is now pregnant because she was raped.
  • She does not want to disappoint her mother and give her mom the burden of help raising her and her baby.
  • Miriam wants to kill herself now because now that she is pregnant she will be unable to become a Nurse like she has always wanted to be.
  • Latisha loses her second baby to stillbirth possibly due to the beating she has been enduring by her husband Buti.
  • After the TV being outlawed for disgracing public moral, they buy a TV anyways.

4 Questions i have?

  • What is "fresh?
  • How are they to afford a 27 inch Tv which now today costs like a good couple hundred dallors?
  • Why does mama continually keep george under her roof if he keeps tealing from her?
  • How did Johannes get to have such a connection that he persuades Oprah Winfrey to bring his family to america?

3 Vocabulary

  • Effemincy (pg 232)-or womanly behavior
  • Incensed (pg 229)-none given
  • Wean ( pg 231)-cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.

2 Literary Tachniques

  • Metaphor ( pg 237)- " papas eyes light up"
  • Metaphor pg 252)" nobody slept a wink"

1 senence Summary

  • Miriam has her baby and now is a mother. she has a chnace to go to america to visit johannes and accepts the offer. she still planes to go back to school to become a nurse.

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