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52 Cards in this Set
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In alice walker’s short story everyday use, describe the 3 women:
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-Maggie- burned, shy, devoted to heritage
-Dee- shallow -Mother- manly |
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Which one understands the family’s real heritage?
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Maggie
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What is momma’s fantasy about dee?
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Reintroduced to dee on tv and they embrace each other.
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Why that particular fantasy?
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Momma wants her to have respect and see the sacrifices.
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What according to momma has dee always had?
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Style
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How did dee feel about the first house burning down?
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Happy
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What happened during the fire?
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Maggie was burned and disfigured
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How is Maggie a reflection of alice walker herself?
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She was shot in the eye with a bb gun and it made her shy like Maggie.
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What animal images are used in every use?
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Dee’s hair is referred to as a lizard. Maggie is referred to as a dog because she tags behind her mom.
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When dee arrives what has she acquired?
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An African persona and an Islamic boyfriend.
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Why is her African persona ironic?
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She doesn’t really value her real heritage.
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What does dee do when she gets there?
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She starts taking pictures. Then she begins wanting everything.
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Why does she change her name?
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She says it oppresses her that she is named after generations.
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Why does dee’s acquisition of the churn table mean?
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She wants them for decorative purposes, not for everyday use.
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What is significant of the quilts?
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They are art and heritage.
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Who gets the quilts?
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Maggie
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In mary oliver’s poem gravel and summer day what subject is she talking about?
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Death
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Why does she associate nature with death?
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Nature and death are a part of the natural order.
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What does mary oliver want to be?
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Disassembled by nature.
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What does mary oliver call death?
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The tallest of the tall kings.
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Why does she use this image?
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It’s the most important image because it is the one that wins the battle.
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What does she want death to do to her name?
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Shake her free from it.
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What happens to everything in the world within gravel?
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It all turns to Gravel and dust.
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According to gravel, what is the nature of stone?
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To be satisfied.
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What does the nature of water want to be?
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It wants to be somewhere else.
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When the speaker in the poem is comfortable in the natural world, with what does she end this poem?
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She doesn’t fear death and is free.
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In the summer day, what does the speaker spend her day doing?
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She is walking in the field observing things.
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What does she imply that this is for her?
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A prayer
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What animal does she examine without restraining it?
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Grasshopper
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What unspoken aspect is she saying by the end of the poem?
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People are wasting their time with petty things.
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What question does she ask this critic?
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What is the one thing you plan to do with your precious life?
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What is woman hollering creek about instead of domestic violence?
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Hope and a life for herself.
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Where doeso she get her ideas of love and marriage?
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telenovelas
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What impresses her about juan pedro before she marries him?
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His truck
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Who or what is la llorona?
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Weeping woman that drowned her children.
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Why does she weep?
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She killed her children for a man that rejected her.
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Who or what is la gritona?
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Hollering woman, “banshee”.
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When does juan pedro start beating her?
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Soon After they got married.
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What does soledad and dolares name mean?
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Alone and Sorrowful
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Why did cleofilas find herself drawn to the creek?
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she identifies with la llorona.
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What does she do to get away from juan pedro?
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She goes to the doctor to check on the baby and meet felice there.
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Why is she so impressed with felice?
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She doesn’t have a husband, owns her own truck and is happy.
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Why does cleofilas laugh when she crosses the creek?
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She is happy to be free.
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What is gary snyder’s meaning in riprap?
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To hold the natural things in the world in place.
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What is riprap?
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Foundation that forms a structure to keep erosion down.
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What does it mean that the world is like an endless 4D game of go?
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The world is very complicated and interconnected.
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What is GO?
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Japanese board game a lot like chess
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Why did the speaker in not leaving the house, not leave the house?
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His son Kai was born.
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What did he do instead of leaving the house?
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Rearranged his world around his new life.
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What is significance of Navajo beads, bagger belt and peacock feathers?
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Aided in childbirth and is Native American tradition
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What is the tone within this poem?
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Peaceful
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What is Snyder known for in poetic subjects and life work?
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He is an environmental activist.
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