Who is Anansi?
Anansi takes this form.
What is a spider?
Anansi originated from this continent.
Africa
The slave takes place during this.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
The Woman tells the Girl stories in this part of the ship.
What is the hold?
This what Anansi is described as.
What is a trickster?
Anansi stories come from this culture/people.
What is Ashanti/Akan?
This is where the play takes place.
What are the slave ship and the forest of stories?
The Woman teaches the Girl to have this.
What is strength like Anansi?
Anansi uses this to get his way.
What is wit?
Anansi stories were brought to the Caribbean through this event.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This is where the ship is come from and going to.
What is West Africa and Jamaica?
This is how the stories can motivate/strengthen the girl.
What is drawing parallels/relating/comparing the stories to her own situation?
Anansi teaches this.
What are morals and ethical values?
Anansi stories were passed down through this.
What is oral storytelling?
The Girl is tied to this character in the play.
Who is the Woman?
The Woman says that even if everything else is stolen, this can never be taken away.
What are stories/Anansi stories?
Anansi made the rope out of this.
What are vines?
These are Anansi's parents.
Nyame (the sky/supreme God) and Asase Ye (the earth goddess).
The forest of stories/anansi stories can be this literary device.
What is a Metaphor/Contrast?
The Woman tells the Girl this is her mother.
What is Africa?