Who is described as being at a 'viable die-able age'?
Ammu (and also later Estha and Rahel)
What is Ammu's husband known as?
Baba
What series of pets does Violet have, but they keep dying in the heat?
Parrots
What poem covers 9/11 in Night Sky With Exit Wounds?
Untitled: Blue, Green and Brown (Oil on Canvas)
What female musician does Marji listen to in Persepolis?
Kim Wilde
What does the skyblue Plymouth symbolize?
Childhood happiness / protection / colonial status
What does Pappachi's moth symbolize?
What does Lay Down Sally symbolize?
What is the name of the technique where multiple characters speak / act at the same time?
Ensemble acting
What does the motif of water symbolize in Night Sky With Exit Wounds?
Purity / washing away but also looking back through to the past.
What technique is used in Persepolis to make the cartoon seem heavier and darker?
Graphic weight
What visual image is used to describe how close Estha and Rahel are to each other?
Stacked spoons
What 'cocktail' does Matty-Fae drink in the opening act? This is used comedically.
Whiskey
What is the significance of the catfish in the final act of AOC?
Finish the quote from Steve - 'I'm white and...'
What is the significance of the line - 'Lay. Ter'. Give two answers.
1. Example of childish language / playfulness.
2. Ominous sense of what will happen later.
3. Emphasises the overlap of past, present, future.
What is the technical name for the multi-layered form of Persepolis?
Palimpsestic
Give three examples of poems in Vuong's work which make use of intertextuality.
Trojan
Telemachus
Eurydice
Torso of Air
Complete the quote from Pesepolis: 'I wanted to be justice, love...'
'And the wrath of God all in one'.
What was the name of the forced exodus of native Americans and their subsequent march to Oklahoma?
Trail of Tears
What does Chacko keep above the factory and what does it symbolize? Need the full name of the symbol
Baliol college oar - his colonial affinity / privileged upbringing / dichotomy as a communist and bourgeois factory owner
What animal are Estha and Rahel compared to in order to show their innocence? At what point in the novel, we see an image of this animal being 'run over'.
Frogs
What is the last thing that Estha says to Ammu when he is 're-returned'?
Ammu. Feeling vommity.
In GOST, what symbolizes the commodification of tradition, culture and family life?
History house > 5 star hotel
Shortened Kathakali dances
Finish the quote from Berverly: 'The facts are:...'
'... my wife takes pills and I drink'.