Literal
Themes
Symbolism
Style
Miscellaneous
100
This person saved the chicks from dying.
What is Naomi's mom?
100
"Speech hides within me, watchful and afraid" (69). This is an example of what major theme?
What is silence/voice?
100
The Hen represents this character.
Who is Naomi.
100
The tone of the novel used by the author.
What is darkness?
100
Naomi has a cut on this body part.
What is her knee?
200
Naomi sees this animal image in her dream.
What is the lion/dog?
200
"The woman's back is bent. Slow and heavy as sleep, her arms sway and swing, front to back, back to front. For a flickering moment, she appears as she once was, naked, youthful, voluptuous." (34). This is an example of what major theme?
What is old/young?
200
The figure in the forest represents this specific emotion.
What is longing.
200
Motifs in the chapters 6 and 11.
What is silence/voice, birds, trees, youth.
200
This character molested Naomi.
Who is Old Man Gower?
300
The lion/dog belongs to this person in Naomi's dream.
What is the martinet?
300
"I am Snow White in the forest,unable to run. He is the forest full of eyes and arms. He is the tree root that trips Snow White. He is the lightning flashing through the dark sky." (76). This is an example of this major theme.
What is restraint/emotion?
300
"I have many, many dolls and stuffed animals. Baby dolls with breakable hard heads and straw-filled bodies." (75) This quote represents this character.
What is Naomi.
300
The main rhetorical strategy used when talking about Naomi's dreams.
What is metaphor/allegory?
300
This Disney princess is used to represent Naomi.
Who is Snow White?
400
Number of oriental women in Naomi's dream.
What is 3.
400
"Her eyes are steady and matter-of-fact-the eyes of Japanese motherhood. They do not invade and betray. They are the eyes that protect, shielding what is hidden most deeply in the heart of the child" (71). This is an example of this major theme.
What is eyesight?
400
The British Martinet in Chapter 6 parallels to this character in Chapter 11.
Who is Old Man Gower.
400
Kagawa uses this type of diction in Naomi's dreams.
What is dark?
400
This woman figure from Naomi's dream has this many hooks in her arm.
What is four?
500
He does a flower dance (ritual of the dead).
What is the Uncle?
500
"I am clinging to my mother's leg, a flesh shaft that grows from the ground, a tree trunk of which I am an offshoot-a young branch attached by right of flesh and blood" (77). This is an example of this important theme representing her mother.
What are trees?
500
"A few inches from the body, the first woman's right foot lay like a solid wooden boot neatly severed above the ankles. It was too late. There was no hope." (74) This passage represents this symbol.
What is confinement. (Feeling trapped, etc.)
500
"The room is dark, the blind drawn almost to the bottom. I am unfamiliar with such darkness. The bed is strange and pristine, deathly in its untouched splendor." (75). This is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is diction?
500
In the end of chapter six, "Everything is forgetfulness. The time of forgetting is now come" is quoted by this character.
Who is Obasan?
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