Champagne Flight
At this age the protagonist makes her first airplane flight to Washington where her father, a military man, had got a new posting
What is sixteen?
The protagonist of "The Shining Mountain"
Who is Pangma-La?
This is Precious's real name.
What is Claireece Jones?
At this place Clara takes off all her clothes in front of her school mates and her teachers.
What is a school assembly?
What is setting?
This couple take care of the protagonist while she is staying behind to finish the term at her old school.
Who are Mr and Mrs Widness?
This character is a famous mountaineer who appears on television and whose large footsteps Pangma-La cannot follow.
Who is Pangma-La's father?
This character doesn't approve of Precious leaving home because she abuses her as a scapegoat for her own mistakes.
Who is Precious's mother?
After her stunt, Clara is wanted in this room that looks more like a private sitting room with family pictures and squashy chairs.
What is the head's study?
Because we see the events in this short story from her point of view only, Naliki is the first person ______ of the story who witnesses her elder sister Nyamalo being married off to an old man.
What is narrator?
On the airplane the protagonist meets a woman who pretends to be a star, but in reality she is an "old stripper" with a severe drug problem.
Who is Serena Sinclair?
This word means plain, normal and like everybody else.
Pangma-La tries not to be, but she fails because wants to live up to the expectations of others.
What is ordinary?
The name of Precious's teacher at "Each One Teach One", who makes Precious open up and feel more self-confident by letting her write a dairy.
Who is Blu Rain?
Who is Stan?
One of the _________ in this story is arranged marriages. Arranged marriages are part of traditional culture in many African countries.
What is "themes"?
The woman on the airplane tries to make this city, the town where her late husband came from, look like an interesting place to be although it is well-known as a city full of crime.
What is Chicago?
This character is Pangma-La's helper. She carries her heavy sack on the first day, fills the sack with swan's feathers on the second day, replaces her heavy wet clothes with swan's feathers on the third day and took her heavy heavy heart on the fourth day. Unfortunately, this meant that she died.
Who is the sherpa woman aka the mountain goddess?
Who is Abdul?
What is prude (modest)?
The _________ of the short story "They Sold My Sister" is that the conflict between African tradition and modern individuality forces Naliki to make a drastic decision.
What is message?
When she sees the woman from the airplane lying on a stretcher because she has passed out due to an overdose of pills and alcohol, the protagonist decides this.
What is that she does not want to be an adult yet?
This made Pangma-La come to life again.
What is her father crying?
What is dyslexia?
At the end of the short story Clara does this because she gives up telling her surroundings that she feels uncomfortable and insecure about the open sexuality that is shown around her.
At the end of the story, Naliki decides to escape the destiny of her sister.
She runs off to search her own _______.
What is identity?