Notes and quotes For paper 2 mock Flashcards
What is the quote from ghost?
“But I am a Western-educated man, a retired mathematics professor of seventy-one, and I am supposed to have armed myself with enough science to laugh indulgently at the ways of my people.”
What is the quote from the thing around your neck?
The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot, but you gained a lot, too.
What is the quote about guns from the headstrong historian?
She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns…
Who is the mom in the headstrong historian?
Nwamgba
Who is the granddaughter in the headstrong historian?
Grace
What does the son of nwamgba say to her about her food? and then about her nakedness?
He refuses to eat “heathen food” and tells his mother that her nakedness is a sin.
What does anikenwas wife say about removing clothes at the river?
Mgbeke goes to get water at the Oyi stream, but refuses to remove her clothes as is customary because she’s a Christian.
The nakedness is a symbol of what?
The nakedness is a symbol for culture
Where does contrast occur?
When guns are discussed, religion.
What does big joseph say to michaels cousin ?
“This ain’t the old days”
What is given compared to?
Compared the deer layed dead with given laying dead showing that black people are being compared to animals.
Leonie: “A hundred yards off, the buck lay on his side, one arrow in his neck, another in his stomach, all of him cold and hard as my brother. Their blood congealing. Hunting Accident, […].” (pg.50)
Verbal irony. The imagery used to compare the deer to her brother; they were both hunted.
What did the police tell pop and stag after they were caught?
To do right by the law of god and man, they said, you boys is going to parchman
What occurs throughout both works and is a form of a literary device which is irony?
religious hypocracy
Leonie quote
Dusted her shrine: her rosary draped over her Virgin Mary statue in the corner, nestled among blue-gray candles, river rocks, three dried cattails, a single yam. When I saw Given-not-Given for the first time, I didn’t tell my mama nothing
What is the literary technique that shows the effects of racism?
Magical realism, given being alive as a ghost, Leonies and jojos feelings for reading emotions, may be a way to show the trauma of their lives.
