Vocabulary
Define racist
Prejudice and discrimination based on race
What is the point of view?
First person
Why do the neighborhood gets annoyed?
The neighborhood gets annoyed that the soldier is in their house
What did the girl do once she was in front of the truck?
Paragraph 26 it said “My daughter began to pelt the soldier’s vehicle with stones from her pockets.”
Define duty
a task or action that someone is required to perform
What is the climax of the story?
The soldiers confronts the narrators daughter and tells her how brave she is.
What does the mother wish about her husbands characteristics?
The mother wishes for her husbands characteristics to show in her future descendants.
What was the narrator’s crime according to the village?
Paragraph 63 it said “My crime was that I had insulted Bilal with my brazen pursuit of this soldier…”
Define withered
(of a part of the body) shrunken or wrinkled from age or disease
What Figurative language was mentioned?
Imagery
What did the Daughter do with her hair in the village?
The Daughter shaves her hair off to play with the boys in the village.
What did the daughter say about Mothers?
Paragraph 83 it said “...Mothers have no feelings and are enemies of progress.’”
Define fiery
(of a person) having a passionate, quick tempered nature
What was the conflict in My Daughter The Racist?
Man vs. Society
How did the soldiers showed up to mothers house?
The soldier shows up at the mother’s house wearing traditional arab clothes wrong.
What is the narrator’s biological mother like?
In paragraph 1 it said “My mother exaggerates as often as she can.” also said “My mother is a fine woman, all over wrinkles and she always has a clean handkerchief…”
Define bizarre
very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement
What is the theme in My Daughter a Racist?
Social culture
What happen the second visit the soldier made to see mother?
On his second visit the soldier talks about other soldiers who are difficult to spot and the mother tells him not to talk about that in front of her daughter
How many times has Bilal ask the narrator to become his wife?
Paragraph 16 it said “‘Three times I have asked this daughter of yours to be my wife,...’”