Pages 233-260
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- 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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