Plot
How Ka(the main character) describes her father at the beginning of the story.
What is a victim?
What words best describe the atmosphere created by the father’s confession?
What is a sad tone
Ka and her father’s journey begins in this New York borough.
What is Brooklyn
Ka’s choice of medium for her art
What is a sculpture?
The author uses this character‘s art throughout the story
Who is Ka?
Ka discovers something missing in the hotel room after the visit to the police station.
What is the statue?
After learning about the truth, Ka's feelings evolve into this emotional state.
What is betrayal and sorrow?
The charaters traveled to this city in flordia
What is Tampa!!!!
Ka’s father’s role under Duvaliers regime
What is a prison guard/torturer?
The main use of symbolism
What is the statue?
Ka's father's reasoning for destroying the statue
What is a false representation of his past?
The tone around the statue's disappearance
What is suspenseful and unsettling.
The political turmoil of this country heavily influences the story’s background.
What is Haiti(aka the best island)
Ka’s father destroys the sculpture because of this internal conflict
What is guilt and denial?
Ka’s father’s past as a prison guard being revealed displays this literary element
What is characterization?
The climax reveals this paradox about the father's history under Duvalier's regime
What is a victim and a perpetrator of violence?
What is a subtle emotional tone created by the author's style?
The author's writing style gives the story a gentle emotional tone.
This location in the story is where Ka’s idealized vision of her father literally sinks.
What is a lake?
A character explained as loving and burdened by a violent past
What is Ka’s father?
A dew breaker refer’s to
What is a political torturer or enforcer?
Ka’s sculpture “Father” can be interpreted as representing this complex emotional struggle.
What is the conflict between memory, truth, and identity?
This term best describes the mood the author uses to explore Ka’s relationship with her father’s past
What is reflective?
The geographical settings juxtapose the public and private, symbolizing this broad theme.
What is the border between appearance and reality?
The truth :)
What is Ka’s father’s past of torturing?
The father destroying the sculpture symbolizes this theme
What is denial or rejection of the past?