https://padlet.com/ratzlaffchelsea/e32pkk211864r6eu Go around the room and discuss what aspects of the novel you are most interested in exploring in the Critical Essay. Then, create a post with your topic/theme at the top and follow the example. Afterward, share your ideas with the group and see what connections you can make to other students' posts. What did you miss? What other connections can you make? en-us 2021-07-22 16:00:10 UTC 2021-07-22 18:44:50 UTC hello@padlet.com ratzlaffchelsea https://padlet.com/ratzlaffchelsea/e32pkk211864r6eu/wish/1658453620 1. What does the first pigeon mean to Tania & Batista? Identify passages that disclose this. 
2. How does this change and why? Who is involved? Identify passages. 
3. How does the pigeon business impact Tania & Batista's relationship? Identify passages.
4. What might Yamashita be suggesting about human nature, global capitalism, and environmental destruction? Identify key passages. 
5. What critical sources help us understand/appreciate what Yamashita is doing? (Mitchell, Garrard, White, Rose, etc.) Identify passages.
6. What revelation can we glean from Yamashita's novel regarding the human/nonhuman and climate collapse? Identify key passages in the novel's conclusion. ]]> 2021-07-22 16:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ratzlaffchelsea/e32pkk211864r6eu/wish/1658453620 https://padlet.com/ratzlaffchelsea/e32pkk211864r6eu/wish/1658566442 The first pigeon represents their child. 
Quote on page 12. 
"Isn't this the most beautiful pigeon you have ever seen? he boasted to Tania Aparecida as if it were his own child. That was it. Tania Aparecida brushed aside a tear. The pigeon was the child they could never seem to have. What a difference a simple bird made to their lives now.]]> 2021-07-22 18:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ratzlaffchelsea/e32pkk211864r6eu/wish/1658566442