https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks Toni Morrison en-us 2020-09-14 12:33:38 UTC 2025-12-28 08:00:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134208 Topics or Essential Questions:
Trauma
Healing
Traditional masculinity

Theme-
People move past their trauma in order to heal highlighting the importance of accepting the past.]]> 2022-03-15 14:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134208 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134401 Cee becomes mentally and physicall stronger after being rescued by Frank from Dr. Scott. Frank also becomes happy after he reunites with his sister who is and was very close to him.]]> 2022-03-15 14:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134401 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134533 Character vs. Self:

Frank is constantly disturbed by the loss of his friends in the Korean War. This motivates him and is what bothers him when it comes to rescuing his sister Cee after receiving the note telling him to come to Atlanta in order to save her.]]> 2022-03-15 14:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134533 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134763 The story takes place in Atlanta, Georgia after the Korean War, which is mid-1900s or the middle of the 20th century. Many veterans are trying to find a new life back home at this time.]]> 2022-03-15 14:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096134763 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096135398 There are vivid details throughout the story that describes the struggles of Frank and Cee. For example, it describes how Cee was very thin and bleeding from between her legs when Frank finds her at Dr. Beauregard's house in Atlanta.]]> 2022-03-15 14:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096135398 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096135789 Frank: Veteran of the Koren War who is mentally affected by the losses he suffers in the war. He is very close and attached to his sister, and this is shown as he immediately goes to rescue his sister.
Cee: She and Frank were closer when they were younger. She is trying to get life together after her partner leaves her during the Korean War. She works for Dr. Beauregard Scott and likes the work there at first. However, this changes.
Dr. Scott: Cee's employer. He is seen as willing to help women, but he begings to conduct inappropriately experiments on her for studies of fertility and eugenics]]> 2022-03-15 14:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096135789 22sivakumars https://padlet.com/22sivakumars/Bookmarks/wish/2096136447 Exposition: consists of Frank in the hospital suffering from ptsd.
Rising Action: He gets note to rescue is sister from Atlanta or else she could possibly die.
Climax: He escapes the institution he is in, and then he goes to Dr. Scott's house where he saves his sister.
Falling Action: The women of the Lotus nurse Cee back to health.
Resolution: Frank and Cee become closer to each other after Frank admits a dark truth about shooting a Korean woman, which likely causes his ptsd, to Cee. They both accept their truths.

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