https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld Made with fortitude en-us 2019-01-11 18:13:10 UTC 2025-11-20 15:37:14 UTC hello@padlet.com miceli20217170 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319817914 "'Thank you, Papa,' I said feeling the love burn on my tongue" (31).]]> 2019-01-11 18:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319817914 trzpis20211406 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818113 “I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers” (93).]]> 2019-01-11 18:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818113 quinncowell https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818277 "...Papa would take one look at it and his eyes would narrow, his would bulge out like unripe udala fruit, his mouth would spurt Igbo words" (209).]]> 2019-01-11 18:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818277 pearson20216570 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818763 "I had felt as if I were not there, that I was just observing a table where you could say anything at any time to anyone, where the air was free for you to breathe as you wish”(120)]]> 2019-01-11 18:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818763 koscinski20213285 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818775 “There were never tears on her face. The last time, only two weeks ago, when her swollen eye was still the black-purple color of an overripe avocado, she had rearranged them after she polished them¨ (10).]]> 2019-01-11 18:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818775 pittman20216537 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818806 “‘This cannot go on, nwunye m,” Aunty Ifeoma said. ´When a house is on fire, you run out before the roof collapses on your head’” (213).]]> 2019-01-11 18:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818806 blackwell20218600 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818869 “There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness  as in that woman’s despair”. (45) ]]> 2019-01-11 18:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818869 cao20217643 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818895 2019-01-11 18:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818895 ockey20214346 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818949 “It rained heavily the day Ade Coker died, a strange, furious rain in the middle of the parched harmattan. (206)]]> 2019-01-11 18:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319818949 kravec20218516 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819446 “The boiled yam and peppery greens refused to go down my throat; they clung to my mouth like children clinging to their mothers’ hand at a nursery school entrance.” ]]> 2019-01-11 18:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819446 ade20217064 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819552 “Eugene has to stop doing God’s job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene” (Adichie 95-96).]]> 2019-01-11 18:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819552 ricketts20214838 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819694 "Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, being low and offering him her back so that he would pat it with his fan made of the soft, straw-colored tail of an animal." (94).]]> 2019-01-11 18:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819694 treece20215278 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819925 2019-01-11 18:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319819925 bors20212241 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820110 “Outside the rain came in slants, hitting the closed windows with a furious rhythm...giving out a sweet-sour scent”(288)]]> 2019-01-11 18:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820110 lenert20212030 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820118 "'This cannot go on, nwunye m,' Aunty Ifeoma said.  'When a house is on fire, you run out before the roof collapses on your head.'"
(213)]]> 2019-01-11 18:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820118 blackwell20218600 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820325 “‘They are not like those loud children people are raising these days, with no home training and no fear of God,’ Papa said, and I was certain that it was pride that stretched Papa’s lips and lightened his eyes”. (58) 

]]> 2019-01-11 18:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820325 kravec20218516 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820442 “Everything came tumbling down after Palm Sunday. Howling winds came with an angry rain, uprooting frangipani trees in the front yard...The satellite dish on top of the garage came crashing down…” 

]]> 2019-01-11 18:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820442 jacowleff20215420 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820558 “Soldiers were milling around. Market women were shouting, and many had both hands placed on their heads, in the way people do to show despair or shock. A women lay in the dirt, wailing, tearing at her short afro” (Adichie 44).]]> 2019-01-11 18:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820558 blackwell20218600 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820848 “The silence he left was heavy but comfortable, like a well worn, prickly cardigan on a bitter morning.” (69)]]> 2019-01-11 18:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820848 stothoff20211503 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820989 2019-01-11 18:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319820989 ricketts20214838 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821212 "Didn’t he have the same bubbles of air in his throat, keeping the words back, letting out only a stutter at best?" (145)]]> 2019-01-11 18:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821212 wu20213765 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821328 “He was different from Ade Coker, from all the other people they had killed. He had seemed immortal” (287).]]> 2019-01-11 18:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821328 kravec20218516 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821364 “Above, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out squeeze the moisture from them. The new rains will come down soon” 

]]> 2019-01-11 18:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821364 franklin20212285 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821434 “Mama reached out to hold my hand. Her face was puffy from crying, and her lips were cracked, with bits of discolored skin peeling off. I wished I could get up and hug her, and yet I wanted to push her away, to shove her so hard that she would topple over the chair” (213).]]> 2019-01-11 18:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319821434 quinncowell https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822319 "I saw the tension fall from the sky and envelop us all" (245) ]]> 2019-01-11 18:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822319 lee20216707 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822365 “I had never considered the possibility that Papa would die, that Papa could die. He was different from Ade Coker, from all the other people they had killed. He had seemed immortal.”]]> 2019-01-11 18:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822365 gross20215165 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822661 “That night I dreamed I was laughing, but it did not sound like my laughter, although I was not sure what my laughter sounded like. It was cackling and throaty and enthusiastic, like Aunty Ifeoma’s”]]> 2019-01-11 18:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319822661 lipinski20211824 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823111 “After we hung up Aunty Ifeoma said, ‘your father wants you to stay here a few days longer,’ and Jaja smiled so widely I saw dimples I didn't even know he had”(147).]]> 2019-01-11 18:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823111 pan20210763 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823139 Chapter 9 Pg 141]]> 2019-01-11 18:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823139 nguyen20210430 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823296 "The roads to the prison are familiar. I know the houses and shops, I know the faces of the women who sell oranges and bananas just before you turn into the pot-hole filled road that leads to the prison yard. ]]> 2019-01-11 18:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319823296 lipinski20211824 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319824800 “The stinging was raw now, even more like bites, because the metal landed on open skin on my side, my back, my legs.”(211) ]]> 2019-01-11 18:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319824800 hornby20217052 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319825025 "Mama's eyes were still glazed, but she looked like a different woman from the one who had come out of the taxi that morning. She looked possessed by a different demon"(250).]]> 2019-01-11 18:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319825025 wu20213765 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319825840 "Although our spacious dining room gave way to an even wider living room, I felt suffocated. The off-white walls with the framed photos of Grandfather were narrowing, bearing down on me. Even the glass dining table was moving toward me.]]> 2019-01-11 19:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319825840 rhinehart20213801 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319826841 “‘Look at that, green and pink and yellow on the leaves. Like God playing with paint brushes’”]]> 2019-01-11 19:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319826841 reich20214753 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319827619 "She did not give me the usual brief side hug. She clasped me in her arms and held me tightly against the softness of her body. The wide lapels of her blue, A-line dress smelled of lavender" (71).]]> 2019-01-11 19:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319827619 hoffman20218805 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319832100 "It was the same way I felt when he smiled, his face breaking open like a coconut with brilliant white meat inside."]]> 2019-01-11 19:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319832100 pittman20216537 https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319832214 “I looked away from the wall to glance at him. His eyes were the same green shade of a snake I had seen once, slithering across the yard near the hibiscus bushes” (105).]]> 2019-01-11 19:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ccreveling/aykw9yzrclld/wish/319832214