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| In Mantis... what is opposite the gall? |
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Viewing Okonkwo's fate as uniquely his own, his relationship with the tortoise is the same as:
A) boy and fox
B) LC and CC
C) King's 12 sons and the King
D) Anpu and Bhata |
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| fox and the boy because the fox mirrors/reflects what the boy is going through |
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The sexual images in Houseboy suggest:
A) a possible solution to colonialism
B) genuine love
C) impossibility of communication under colonialism
D) the Commandant is not the manly person he wants everyone to think he is |
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| C) impossibility of communication |
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| Some examples of dualism in: Thankane, Sik, P's Shining Stone, Mantis, Ma'aruf |
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- Thankane vs. her father, ogres, father's calcified heart
- Sik vs his brother; Mang and Mang's daughter
- P's shining stone: sheep vs antelope
- Mantis pos creates the moon; neg: creates gall/darkness
- Ma'aruf: Fatima and Duna |
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| Which tales have to do with generosity pattern? (2) |
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| P's shining stone and Ma'aruf |
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| Thankane and her Father: 3 parts, mirroring, main pattern |
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Part 1: father seeks to kill his daughter for cutting into his milk tree
Part 2: orges kill all girl children
3: father's calcified heart swallows everything
- Parts 2 and 3 mirror and comment on part 1: punishment does not fit the crime |
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| Mythic elements in LC and CC, Two Brothers, P's Shining Stone, Mantis create an eland |
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LC and CC: depose god
2 brothers: Bhata becomes pharaoh, Bhata's wife
P' shining stone: god makes the moon from the stone
Mantis: all myth |
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| Rom of the Fox: two sides of the boy; fox mirrors the boy; role of woman, bird, horse, and role of the 3 kings |
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- woman, bird, horse: adult side, reveal identity of the true hero
- 3 kings: give impossible tasks |
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| Role played by animals: which stories have animals as neg/childhood past (4) |
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| Rom of Fox, LC and CC, 2 Brothers (ox), doves in King's 12 sons |
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| Role played by animals: harmony with nature (2) |
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| Role played by animals: developing wisdom/adult (2) |
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| bird and horse in Rom of the Fox, mouse in Sik |
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| LC and CC: main pattern (experience it 3 times) |
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| setting things right: Lion, 8 Old Men, god |
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| Si: what mirrors neg side, pos side, developing wisdom |
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neg: brother, Mang
pos: Sik, Mang's daughter
developing wisdom: mouse, sister |
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| King's 12 sons and 1 daughter: transformation, mirroring, what does the fairy represent? |
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- girl -> woman is mirrored by boys -> doves -> men
- national change as well: woman being ruler
- fairy: tradition |
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| Super-patterns in U-W (2) |
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1. Grotesqueness: morally in part 1 and physically in parts 2 and 3
2. Nature: mountain beast in part 1, rain and thunder in part 2, and U-W herself in part 3 |
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| Ma'aruf...role of jinni and the rings |
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jinni: makes the lie a reality; provides the wealth
rings: represents the change taking place inside him, and passing from person to person represents that he is not ready yet |
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| What 2 characters swallow all their possessions? |
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| Major pattern and Role played by women in The Two Brothers |
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- Bhata's transformation: ox to trees to wood chips
- Role played by women: helping/forcing him along in his puberty rite of passage |
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| Main patterns in P's shining stone |
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| generosity and selfishness |
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| 2 unpatterned images in LC and CC |
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1. when CC dies when the dogs eat his mother's entrails
2. when LC brings CC back to life |
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| embedded image in LC and CC |
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| Purpose of introduction in LC and CC |
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| sets up animals as negative, childhood past |
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| Taking of the livestock in M's Magic Finger reveals |
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| the uncle's moving into manhood |
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| Purpose of Thankane's daughter's rite of passage |
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- reinforces thankane's rite of passage
- rite of passage is all we have, but it isn't always perfect |
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| Main motif of P's Shining Stone |
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| 2 embedded images in Yarima, Atafa, and the King |
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In which of the following stories is the creation of the moon meant to be an admonition to humans:
A) Mantis creates an eland
B) Python's Shining Stone
C) both
D) neither |
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Which are dualistic gods:
A) Mantis
B) Bhata's wife
C) both
D) neither |
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| Who are God' bits of wood, and what is the sig. of the title? |
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- all the unnamed people who work on the railroad
- superstition, don't name or count people b/c then some evil might get them |
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1 Ad-ji-bi-ji
2. Ramatoulaye
3.Penda
4. N'Deye Touti
5. Maimouna |
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| Ad'ji'bi'ji: what she represents, major events (3) |
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- interested in men's activities (strike)
- learning French
- the future: the new Africa
- major events: struggle with Niakoro, the visits to strike with Fa Kieta, wanted to cry out that she is free and independent |
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- blind woman
- sings: (griot) about the great women of the past who have successfully measured themselves against men
- major events: death of one of her twins, turns her back on Samba, her songs, her friendship with Penda, she nurses the child Strke |
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- 1st stage of Negritude: wants to be a black Frenchwoman
- changes: moves to the 2nd stage: acceptance of her African past
- overhears the whites, conversation with Bakayoko (there are many ways to prostitute oneself, Penda's a better person than you), slapped by Rama
- major events: her love for Beaugosse and Bakayoko, initially disdaining the strike, overhearing the whites, her change of mind
- goes through stages of puberty rite of passage rituals |
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- alleged prostitute, on the boundaries of society
- new woman, taking a Bakayoko role
- major events: the spitting and slapping, her death, Bakayoko's admiration of her, leading the march to Dakar |
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- a housewife who becomes a revolutionary when she finds her cupboard bare and she is unable to provide for her children
- major events: killing Mabigue's ram, slapping N'deye Touti, becoming a leader of the women |
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- model for change
- wants synthesis of African tradition (humanism) and European technology
- the change that he represents is seen in the 5 women |
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| Sig. of the death of Sounkare the old watchman, eaten by rats |
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- despair
- the inhumanity of the whites |
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| Sig of the trial of Diara the scab |
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| emphasize humanistic past |
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| 3 attempts by the whites to stop the strike |
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1. allow no credit at the stores: with-hold food
2. bribe the strike leaders (tried to bribe Doudou, but failed)
3. take over the unions (Gaye: an African, but identifies with the French) |
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| symbolism of the child Strike |
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| Beaugosse, Gaye, and Mabigue |
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| lackeys, identify with the French |
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| What does the locomotive represent? |
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- change
- end of colonialism and end of Africa as it was (Africa is no longer a garden) |
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| Sig. of Maimouna saying "don't touch the children" to Samba |
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| first sign that she knows Samba is the father of her twins |
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| Role of Assitan for Bakayoko |
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| reveals that Bakayoko still has something to learn: at the end he takes her and Adjibiji to the strike meeting |
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1. Niakoro: towards the beginning of the novel
2. Beatrice Isnard: towards the end of the novel |
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| Where was the new courage/strength of Rama born? |
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| - beside a cold fireplace, in an empty kitchen |
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| "Only the engines tell the truth--and they don't know the difference between white men and black" |
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| "God has assigned a rank to every man" |
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| "Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty" |
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| "If you imitate the hirelings of your masters, you will become like them, hirelings and barbarians" |
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| The two sides of Okonkwo are revealed in his children: what events? |
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1. killing Ikemefuna
2. following Chielo into the hills
3. disowning Nyowe
- Ok. loses Nyowe when he kills Ikemefuna ("something snapped") |
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| Major events in Part 1, 2, and 3 of Things Fall Apart |
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1: Ok kills Ikemefuna
2: Disowns Nyowe
3. Ok kills the african messengers, unmasking of the elders, ok's suicide |
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| Priests in Things Fall Apart |
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Brown: flexible
Smith: Inflexible, same as Ok. |
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| Fox's head being cut off is a motif in what tale? |
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| U-W becoming the daughter of the ogre chief is a ____ in U-W |
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| Theme of a Walk in the Night |
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| a system of Apartheid dehumanizes everyone: oppressors and the oppressed |
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knot of rage and hate: Adonis and Raalt
knot of life: in Grace Lorenzo |
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| Main pattern of a walk in the night |
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| 21 murders across the color bar |
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| What reveals that Willieboy is not the gangster he wants to be (3) |
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- scene in the Sheben, fight with the American sailor-- but Gipsy has to come save him
- kicks Greene, a drunken white man
- sense of morality instilled in childhood |
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| 3 pillars of western civ in Houseboy |
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| Christianity, Justice Sys, Nuclear family |
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| Ideal and reality: Nuclear family |
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ideal: Commandant and Susan DeCazy
reality: affair with Moreau |
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| Ideal and reality: Justice Sys |
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ideal: Commandant
reality: the beating of the Africans, Moraeu overseeing this |
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| Ideal and reality: Christianity |
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ideal: Father Gilbert
reality: the beating of the Africans, overseen by Moreau |
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| foreshadowing in Houseboy |
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| the beating of the Africans |
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| when Susan Decazy eyes meets Toundis, she sees and knows that he knows she is having an affair |
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| final veil of Woman at pt 0 |
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| men control money as well |
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| respectability, love, money |
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| What other character (in any of the novels) is Firdaus most like with respect to society? |
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| spitting on the men's faces in the newspaper |
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1. men
2. eyes
3. identity
4. feeling like someone flung out into the water, no control |
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