World Literature 2/27/13 Today you will Review homework (Pg. 445-474) Oral test question brainstorm Homework Finish the book Begin preparing for the oral test

Leah (13 yrs since RM’s death; 29 yrs old) Describe Leah’s family.  What does Adah send in the post (447)?  What does Leah dream about (449)?  What is Elizabet’s view on Elevee’s decision (450)?  What is the Congolese worldview as described by Leah (top of 451)?  What does Leah realize about the children of Kilanga? Tata Ndu? And her own family (453)?  What food issues does Leah both realize and struggle with (454-55)?  What does Leah mean when she says, “My pagan mother alone among us understood redemption” (456)?  What is life like under Mobutu? Rachel (17 yrs since RM’s death; 34 yrs old) What type of hotel is Rachel running (bottom of 461)?  How does Rachel’s opinion of “The Rumble in the Jungle” differ from Leah’s (463)?  What is Adah doing these days (464)?  What is Rachel’s view of Leah’s choices (464)?  What is Rachel’s view of Ruth May’s death (465)?  Rachel says, “What happened to us in the Congo was simply the bad luck of two opposite worlds crashing into each other, causing tragedy. After something like that, you can only go your own way according to what’s in your heart. And in my family, all our hearts seem to have whole different things inside” (465). What insight does she have into the ways the Congo affected the Price family?  Why do you think Rachel has chosen to live the way she does? Do you see honor in her life choices?

Leah (20 yrs after RM’s death; 36 yrs old) What was the reason for the Ngemba’s first trip to America? Second? Third, and why did they finally come back to Africa (467-69)  What are the charges Anatole is being held on?  Leah says, “But we’ve all ended up giving up body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who’s becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here” (474). What insight does she have into the ways the Congo affect the Price family?  What guilt does Leah express on pg. 474?

Oral Test Brainstorm Review questions we’ve already discussed Think about topics for other questions