A Girl Named Disaster (Pg. 99-111)
B4 - Due Thursday, 12/9
A1/A2 Due Friday, 12/10
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Your responses should be between 2-4 sentences. Please write this assignment out on paper and turn in during class.
1. Describe specifically how Nhamo survives. What does she eat? What does she drink? What does she use for shelter?
2. Detail Nhamo’s dream. What significance might it have?
3. What are the njuza?
4. Where was Nhamo on page 105? Use your map as reference.
5. Why is luck so important in this section? Was it good or bad luck?
Things Fall Apart Chapter 11
B4 - Due Thursday, 12/9
A1/A2 Due Friday, 12/10
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Your responses should be between 4-6 sentences.
- Analyze Ekwifi’s story. How might it be symbolic? Think of the colonial / native relationship.
- Analyze Ezinma’s story. How might it be symbolic?
1. nhamo ate, dried fish and the bird. for water, she drank river water. and she slept in the little island she had arrived.
ReplyDelete2. 2 girls in the dream, they were both nice to her at the beginning of the dream, but they started to drown when she thought she was on ground, but actually she was underwater.
3. Njuza is the water spirit.
4. nhamo was in zambia, gato.
5. luck can change one's life. and depending on luck their life could become all bright, or all disastrous. the bad luck in the chapter was that her boat drifted away, the good part was she lived.
by the way this is jun ogawa
ReplyDelete1. Nhamo catches birds with her trape, she smokes fish, she drunk water from the river near by, she slept on the shore near her boat where there no crocs.
ReplyDelete2. She say a beautiful island with 2 girls and crocodile guts, then the girls turned into snakes, then she was drowning. Then crocodile guts told her not to be afraid of the njuzu (water spirit), then Nhamo woke up and saw that it only was a dream, she imagined about drowning because she was skined in the water that sipped in the night on her boat. The significance of this is to not be afraid of water.
3.njuza is the water spirit.
4. I thing shes in the Njuzu island since there talikng about the Njuzu.
5. She depends on luck ro eat and to live in this hostile world, because in this chapter of the book she sets out on a dangerous journey to Zimbabwe, the only thing shes got now is her hands and her luck. Good luck is a random good thing that happens randomly, bad luck is something a random bad thing that happens. randomly
1. Ekwefi's story may be consedered symbolic if you think of how the way the turtle tricked the birds into bringing him to the feast. I think the turtle represents the colonizers while the birds represent the natives. Although Ekwefi might not have known this, it portrays how the colonizers tricked the natives and took advantages over them. It shows us how the turtle, who had drained all the food and water on the land reaches out to the sky greedily to take whatever the birds owned. It's just like when the colonizers are not satisfied with what they have and reach their hands out to other lands where the natives lived.
ReplyDelete2. Ezinma's story is about a turtle and cat wrestling. The cat is very fat while all the animals are skinny because of the great famine. This time, I think that the cat is the colonizers and the turtle is the natives. The cat gets loads of food, while all the others starve. Is that not just like when the colonizers take all of the food etc. from the natives and leave them with nothing to eat and drink? I think it is very similar.
Zen Sugino
A2 Literature
1. Nhamo ate fish and birds she hunted for surviving. She drank water from the river and slept in little islands.
ReplyDelete2. While Nhamo was sleeping she dreamed of Zimbabwe. Two beautiful girls offered her food but just when she tried to eat it Crocodile Guts, who was already dead, appeared. She then noticed she was drowning and woke up. I think the significance for this dream was to not be afraid of water, to not give up, and to try to think what would other people would do in the same occasion.
3. Njuzas are water spirits that can change their appearance. They are intelligent but they try to pull people underwater and if they offers food and people eats them people would never be able to return.
4. I think Nhamo is in Njuzu island because on the map Njuzu island is in the current from the rock. Nhamo probably named it Njuzu island because she had a dream about Njuzas on the day she went there.
5. Luck is important to her because without luck she might have been discovered by her villagers, eaten by animals, or died with hunger. I think it is mostly bad luck because she was close to Zimbabwe before she slept but when she woke up she was drifting far away from Zimbabwe. She was partly lucky that she survived.
Anna Ishii
A2 Literature
Ekwefi's story might be symbolic because the turtle can be considered sly and unfair, where the birds are easy to trick. The birds would be the natives if this was about colonization, and the tortoise would be the colonizer. By taking advantage using strategy, it shows how smart he is, yet also how miserable he is. Although the tortoise did take advantage of the generous birds, he became too proud of himself and ate too much. He also lost the birds' trust, which led him to cracking his shell into smithereens. I think this also relates to the holocaust, because even though the Jews were tricked to go into the gas chamber, in the end the proud Nazis got defeated.
ReplyDeleteIn Ezinma's story, the cat is the one that stands out within the animals because of his body fat. All the other animals were lean because there was a great famine. The cat and turtle wrestle, where turtle is leaner than cat. The cat is the rich and well-fed colonizer, where turtle is trying to fight over the cat, as a native. Usually, the colonizers are the ones who stand out in a country because they look and act different from the colonized. So, in some cases the colonized might look more natural and normal, especially from the natives' eyes.
5. Why is luck so important in this section? Was it good or bad luck?
ReplyDelete1. She ate chickens and dried fish and drank river water.
2. She dreamed about two Njuzus and Crocodile Guts. Maybe she dreamed it because she was afraid of the water.
3. Njuzus are the water nymphs who sometimes help the travevelers but sometimes kill them for not respecting them.
4. Njuzu island.
5. Luck is so important in this section because because of the luck, Nhamo went to Njuzu:s island. I think it was unlucky.
panda96 is han lee
1.Ekwefi's tales may be considered to be symbolic because of the turtle's behavior taking over the birds advantages. If that was to be compared to the colonization, the birds would be the native people while the turtle would be the colonizer. The turtle was the smart one and the birds were the generous animals who didn't doubt anything about the turtle. The turtle's way of winning was sly but expedient at the same time. By tricking the birds, he gained whatever the birds owned but in the other hand, he lost the trust from the birds. The colonizers usually took over the indigenous people and ruled over them. Although they had all the power, their way of ruling was pretty unfair which led to some of the revolts against those rulers so in actual fact, it didn't work well.
ReplyDelete2. In Ezinma's story, if it was to be compared to the colonization, the fat cat would symbolize the colonizer and the other animals starving would be the native people. The colonizers were mostly rich and lived luxuriously while the native people were poor and couldn't even afford food to eat. Here, the cat is standing out from all other animals because of its appearance and that also shows in the way of living of the colonizers. They could easily recognize if one person was a foreigner or indigenous because the foreigner would get all the goods from the natives. In my opinion, the natives should standing our because of their wealth of their homeland.
Kana Ikezawa
A2 Literature
1. She ate fish and birds which she hunted for survival. She drank the water which came from the river and slept on the little islands.
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo dreamt about Zimbabwe while she was sleeping. So then two beautiful girls offered her food but when she was going to eat, crocodile guts appear. After drowning in the dream, she woke up. I think the reason she dreamt this is because it was not to be afraid of water, to not give up, and to try to think what would other people would do in the same situation
3. Njuzas are the water spirits that can change the way they look. They are intelligent but they also try to pull people underwater. They offers food to the people, and if the people eats them, the people would not ever be able to return.
4. Nhamo might be on the Njuzu island because on the map Njuzu island is in the current from the rock. Plus, Nhamo probably named it Njuzu island because she had a dream about Njuzas on the day she was there.
5. Luck is important to her because without luck she might have been discovered by her villagers, or eaten by animals, or died because hunger. I think it is mostly bad luck because she was close to Zimbabwe before she slept but when she woke up she was drifting far away from Zimbabwe. She was lucky that she survived that part.
Kai Izumi
A1 Lit
1. She survived by hunting birds, (which she got by accident) and trap fishes to eat. She drank from the river.
ReplyDelete2. She saw Crocodile guts and 2 women on a island. Then the 2 women turned into snakes, and Nhamo drowned, when she woke up.
3. Nijuzu is a water spirit.
4. I think the Nijuzu island
5. Good luck because she did come to an island and also because she is surviving.
Isshin Midorkawa
A1 Literature