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10 Cards in this Set
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What are some themes of Tituba?
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1. Mistreatement of women, rape, quote about black and white don't matter, it's the man that get's what he wants.
2. Condemnation - slaves, racism, witches, religion, women. 3. |
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Who protects and teaches Tituba? What does she teach her?
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Yaya, about witchcraft, tells her that the powers protect her.
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In Tituba, who are betsy's parents?
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John and Elizabeth.
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Why does Tituba get an abortion?
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Because she doesn't want her baby to be a slave.
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Why does Djebar chose to write in French?
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because she sees arabic as that language of persecution.
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In the beginning of There is No Exile, what is the mother complaining of?
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The story opens with the mother of three daughters complaining about having to expose herself, though veiled from head to foot, in the market, reflecting, like many of these stories, the circumstances of traditional seclusion.
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What does the plot of No Exile focus on?
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The story evolves through the middle daughter's impressions of a funeral that is taking place in the apartment next door
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What is the main character thinking about during No Exile?
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As the plot reveals the cultural phenomena of hired mourners, all of them women, chanting and ululating over the body of the dead, and Koranic verses (read by the men), the narrator remembers the loss of her two sons and her divorce.
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How does There is No Exile end?
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The story ends with the arrangement of her second marriage, which will take place despite her protest, while she recognizes that the only true exile is the woman who is lost in her own memories.
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Although the women in There is No Exile are opressed how are they portrayed in the end?
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unexpected wisdom and dignity, which lifts them out of their victimization
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