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When she talks about "little beast", is she talking to the readers or the child that died?

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Which child dude she leave behind

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Was a child of her's buried in Africa or passed away?

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Orleanna confirms that one of her children die.

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Orleana is starting to realize all the hard work that goes into just one day.

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What child did she leave behind in Africa?

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"Oh, little beast, little favorite. Can't you see I died as well?"

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What does she leave behind in the dirt of Africa? Which child is it?

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I noticed Orleanna feels trapped and doesn't really want to be there but she only stays because of her children.

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She points out that women are seen as property and things to win or lose.

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"Oh, little beast, little favorite. Can't you see I died as well?" Pg. 89
She's clearly haunted with immense guilt about the death of one of her children (alluded to on the first page of the chapter). A little connection to Beloved  in that somewhere.

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Was one of her children buried in Africa?

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One of her kids was buried in Africa. Was it one of the four or another one?
"Africa, where one of my children remains in the dank red earth," (87).

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I noticed how much people who live there have to work so much harder just to get the simple things in life that we take for granted.

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orleanna feels isolated because of the villagers , and because of her role in her family and responsibilities
she realizes all the parts that go into the simple things in life like getting clean water

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what does the opening verse have to do with the focus of this part of the novel?
what happened to Mama Tetaba?

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Orleanna is very alone in her family and her relationship with her husband and now the women of the village don't accept her.

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Orleanna likes coffee more than she likes her husband Nathan. She does not miss him when he is gone as much as she misses drinking coffee.

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" A wife is the earth itslef, changing hands, bearing scars."
A wife takes the hardships in the relationship here. She is a belonging of her husband, and she does what he doesn't.

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The only way to know an event was coming was by counting on their hands. And Orleanna said she was his instrument and his animal and nothing more.

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why does orleanna stay ?For her children ?

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" But then nothing came to us  for free."All the struggles Orleanna and her family had to go through to get basic things.

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What does she mean by, "Oh, little beast, little favorite. Can't you see I died as well?"

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I noticed that Orleanna had to work harder for everything .She had to work for her family to survive and keep herself there because it sounded like she wanted to leave.When Mama Tataba and the parrot leave it foreshadows the bad things that are coming possibly because of Nathan.

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-Taking of woman (The countries roots)
-Africa is now dominate over them though they tried to help, The roles change from being dominate to being the one whose being perceived as different weird and foreign.
-"both released by Nathan"
-"resisting the urge to run", she her hardest day was to get up and wanting to leave of stay
-Comparing bleach and Blood of the lamb, measures the same.
-SIgnificance of small words that mean so little in AMerica nad  how in other coutries it meant so much, (took so much more effort)
"fire"
"boil"

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Is Orleanna the one doing all the labor to keep her family surviving?

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Is this section Orleanna is telling a memory she's telling? And will she develop into a stronger woman after doing all the hard work it takes to survive and possibly stand up to Nathan

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What happened to Mama Tatuba?