Pages 53-80
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v Miriam is happy that her father gives her mother half his weekly earnings.
v Pap loses money gambling and drinking that night.
v Florah is away attending a rites of passage ceremony in Tikhomba, in which she is away for four weeks and is taugh all the mysteries of being a grown woman.
v The father beats the mother if she doesn’t do as he says. In this case she refuses to give the money that they need in order to survive the next week and then he starts to beat her.
v I feel the same way that Miriam feels in which she hates her father for beating up her mother, and doing wrong things usch as gambling with their life.
4 Questions
v What pushes the father to drink and gamble?
v What is florah’s fainting sickness?
v What is Matric?
v Why does he continue to drink after the priest tells him that it is bad for his children to starve if he does?
3 Vocabulary words
v Gaudier (pg 57)- brilliantly or excessively showy
v Mete (pg 61)- to distribute or apportion by measure
v Welt (pg 60)- a type of skin lesion
2 Literary Terms
v Man Vs. Man- “ I don’t like teachers and mistresses because of all the harsh punishment they mete out to students”. ( pg 61)
v Personification- “ a cloud of acrid black smoke hangs over the ghetto” (pg 68)
1 sentence Summary
After reading this section rioting breaks out between BC (Black Conscious Movement ) and white police officers, in then in which the leader of BC dies while in custody of the police officers, and Miriam and others lose their innocence.
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