HLE Flowchart!! by Anishka SUXENA

Intro

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Brief context of novel

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Context of Mama

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Context of Aunty Ifeoma

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Brief summary of how they honed in their own power

Paragraph 1: Mama (No Power)

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Setting: After lunch Kambili is reading the Bible when she hears thumping sounds from her parents' room. Kambili imagines that Papa is trying to get the door unstuck, thinking that if she imagines it hard enough it will be true. After 20 seconds Papa comes out of the room, carrying Mama slung over his shoulder. He carries her downstairs and takes her outside.There is blood on the floor

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Quote: Mama comes home the next day, her eyes looking vacant. She says "there was an accident" and she has had a miscarriage. She stands there hugging herself for a while

Paragraph 2: Aunty Ifeoma (No Power)

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Quote: "Ifeoma could not afford it." Papa-Nnukwu shook his head. "Since the father of her children died, she has seen hard times."

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Quote: "Look how Obiora balances Aunty Ifeoma's family on his head"

Paragraph 3: Mama (Power)

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Quote: "I started putting the poison in his tea before I came to Nsukka.

Sisi got it for me; her uncle is a powerful witch doctor."

Paragraph 4: Aunty Ifeoma (Power)

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Quote: There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.

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Quote: "It is not about me, Chiaku." Aunty Ifeoma paused. "Who will teach Amaka and Obiora in university?"

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Setting: Kambili’s cramps start to hurt, and she asks Mama for Panadol, a painkiller. She must eat food with the pill, but it is only twenty minutes before Mass, and the Eucharist fast demands an hour of fasting before communion. Mama whispers that Kambili should eat a few cornflakes quickly.

Conclusion

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Summary of how Mama got power

(how she didn't and the ways she got power)

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Summary of how Aunty Ifeoma got power