Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Passage #2
Choose a passage from your book that:
(1) Connects to one of our Essential Questions for the unit and (2) You found especially interesting or important.
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Chanda and her family do not have money now that the dad and brothers died. They are hopeless and this is showing poverty. This is connecting to poverty because now that no one in the family is working, they do not have money for essentials such as a house and food. There is poverty in this case because family members died and no one has money anymore.
ReplyDeleteI found on page 6 that it shows how the people in Africa live in poverty. It says, "There are so many deaths these days. It's not my fault. It't the market." This proves how they live in such bad conditions and because of that they have so many deaths.
ReplyDelete"for children's funerals,we have a less costly alternative,"(p.5)
ReplyDeleteThis shows the poverty of the family that they cant afford a small children's coffin but to help alleviate that they have cheaper alternatives.
Page 14 and 15
ReplyDelete"The man scrambled to his car. He yelled that our yard was company land. It was only for miners. Since Papa an my brothers were dead, we'd have to leave or pay rent. Mama threw stones at him as he sped away." This answers the question: Why is there poverty? It shows that without jobs, people won't make money and therefore go into poverty.
ReplyDelete"...There are so many deaths these days. It's not me. It's the market." (page 6) This is one example of Poverty, because it shows us that they live in really bad conditions. That's why the number of deaths is going out of control.
ReplyDeleteOn page 5, Mr. Bateman says, "For children's funerals, we have a less costly alternative." This shows that poverty is a such a serious problem, even to the point where families cannot even afford coffins for their dead relatives.
ReplyDeleteOn page 17, when Chanda is saying, " I figured he'd just deny it and I'd get in trouble. Eveen worse, if Mama believed me, she'd say we had to leave-we'd be homeless with nothing to eat and it would be all my fault." This is a example about when other people dominate others and he is domination Chanda because we can and he wants to get sexual pleasure out of it. But of course without her mother knowing, becuase if she knew then he would get in trouble and get yelled at. But this is all a terrible thing of the man to do and for Chanda to have to go through and not telling her mother because she does not want to not have a place to live and think it's her fault when really the man should not have even touched Chanda.
ReplyDeleteOn page 4 and 5, when Chanda is thinking to herself, " I'm a little frightened. We're getting to the back of the show room and the prince tags on the coffins are still an average year's wages. My step-papa does odd jobs, my mama keeps a few chickens and a vegetable garden, my sister is five and half, my bother is four, and I'm in high school. Where is the money going to come from." This shows that poverty is a big issue in Chanda's life and it may be in many others too. The fact that a teenager is frightened about the cost of something shows that poverty has always been an issue in Chanda's and now she has to take care of it not her mother. Poverty forces children to grow up faster and think like adults while their parents are losing their mind's from having no money.
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