https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr F Block en-us 2021-03-01 16:36:51 UTC 2025-12-08 19:48:13 UTC hello@padlet.com arthurknox1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1254082844 "It was like being the victim of an unsolved hit and run. No one knew the motive. No real answers. No revelation. No 'aha' moment. So all I knew was pain, mystification, terror, and the eerie feeling of having my face seductively licked by death. I looked at my hands. The thin green lines on my wrists had faded some. I was heading home in a few days." (99) ]]> 2021-03-01 16:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1254082844 arthurknox1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1254082850 "Ndi madu amaghi na mmiri nwerre-okpukpu, mana ndi madu ana taa-mmiri ataa."

"People don't know that water has bones because people don't chew water." ]]> 2021-03-01 16:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1254082850 gracewilkins https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259601393 My initial response to this passage was different than the second time I read this.  Initially, I was confused. The grandmother and aunt explained that they don't really know why this action happens when it rains, it just does. Initially reading this, I was a little frustrated because I wanted an answer as to why this happened. But after reading this passage, it gave me a little bit of clarity because I was not the only one confused. The fact that the main character and I felt the same kind of confusion created a parallel between the reader and the book. This connection made me feel a little bit more ease. However, the second time I read it, I started noticing that the grandmother and aunt knew that this action was going to take place all along and made me question why they did not tell her. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259601393 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259602969 When I read this section it was like the decline of the destiny that I personally thought. (defeating the monster creature)  And I was wondering what this was supposed to mean in relation to the overall message, but then I started to think that maybe Okorafor didn't want it to end, and to make me keep searching for an answer. Or maybe showing there isn't a resolution  to everything and its time to return and forget? ... but idk I was very confused for most of the story. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259602969 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259604669 This passage mirrored my own confusion, when reading this story. Like the character in the story, even after reading "On The Road" two times I still have a lot of unanswered questions. I feel like this story was purposely vague, and this quote was meant to show the characters, and readers confusion. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259604669 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259605139 I think this may relate some what to not understanding something because you don't fall into the groups that do. Also just the general idea of not understanding it because it isn't common for you. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259605139 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259611764 i thought throughout this short story it was really cool how Okorafor brought in aspects of the main character's life in Chicago as a cop as a way to connect with the reader almost to ground the story and bring it back to real life. she did this in this passage by comparing her experience with an unsolved hit and run. i think that this is something that the reader can feel, like oh yeah that must have been frustrating not having any answers. It was as if it never happened but still having the mental trauma from the experience. i wonder what kind of answers she would get if she found them and if she would like them. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259611764 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259617125 This passage left me with more questions at the end. I think it is interesting how the author can show the confusion and fear in the character but then with the sentence "I was heading home in a few days" completely ignoring what had just happened. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259617125 marigutierrez https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259617245 My initial response to this passage was mainly confusion. I was confused as to how the grandma and aunt knew some things about the situation but not enough to explain to her exactly what happened. I was confused about how this has been happening for years but no one knows exactly why or how to stop it. Overall I think the feeling the character is displaying here is mutual between the reader and the character. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259617245 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259618647 My initial thought from this passage was mainly confusion. Although looking at it more a connection I made is that sometimes in a near death experience people will have a complete revelation or sudden philosophical feeling, and how in what happened to her is more just confusion. And maybe since there was so many things happening at the same time she might not be fully understanding what happened, very out of body.]]> 2021-03-02 17:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259618647 evan_medrano https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259619752 The entirety of the story basically has this same feel; posing more questions then answers and as a matter of fact not answering any of the questions posed in the story. This story also encapsulates the feeling of despair and mystification there's nothing you can do to stop it and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. When she tries to input reason into this situation stating that this happened to her because she killed somebody they respond with oh you think this is about you. The importance of her hands in this story is a bit of an oddity and the only way I can interpret it is that its a side to her that she isn't familiar with and she learns more about said side of her in this experience. Overall i just believe that this quote sums up the story as a whole.]]> 2021-03-02 17:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259619752 autumnochs https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259623793 to be honest, even after reading this story a couple times, i still do not fully understand this passage or the story. though, despite not understanding it completely, i still found it very interesting. there will never be any real answer to why what happened occurred. even the people who knew about it didn't know why exactly it happened. they will always live with that sense of dissatisfaction of never knowing the cause but always being in fear of it.]]> 2021-03-02 17:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259623793 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259636629 Why didn’t the grandmother and the auntie warn her about this ‘monster’? Because around this passage, the auntie and the grandma are trying to explain to her what the whole situation was, or at least explain to her that it’s not explainable. And in this passage, I questioned why it wasn’t at least introduced to her before it happened because the auntie and the grandma knew about it, or at least seemingly knew about it, because they made comments throughout the story before the attack that would suggest so. For example, the “Grandma nodded. ‘Like it’s hollowing her out.’ ‘So it can fill her up,” Auntie Amaka finished.” (89). ]]> 2021-03-02 17:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259636629 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259645337 This whole story was pretty confusing but also really interesting. I was wondering why no one ever just told her what was going on even if they knew the whole time, especially her family members. I still don't really get why this creature was formed out of the road and everything? So all of that was kind of weird and I was thinking the same questions she had, but I thought it was a cool story. I was also very curious how her being attacked and killing that guy related to any of this happening.]]> 2021-03-02 17:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259645337 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259653002 Maybe it somehow relates to the idea that even if you can’t understand something, it still exists. The assumption that something does not exist or could never happen is often largely based on our inability to explain it, or our inability to recognize it. So, maybe this proverb is calling out the notion that things are only explainable if humans can understand them. Like that saying about if a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound if nobody is around to hear it? Does something exist/ happen if nobody is around to understand/ explain it? ]]> 2021-03-02 17:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259653002 ezraduree1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259653100 When I read this I felt like this situation was sort of in the same vein as when Chioma was being attacked by that man whom she had killed. As far as the reader knows, that previous attack had no real answers or revelation. But with this instance, the grandma and the auntie explain it as just common happenings and that it was going to happen regardless. I was very confused after reading this passage and then the ending because nothing had an answer and there was little to no closure to this story. All it spawned were questions like, what's the significance of wet mud?, why didn’t the grandma and auntie tell Chioma about this monster, or try and help her and what’s the importance of the palm wine that she got from the seller? ]]> 2021-03-02 17:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259653100 camilovasquez2 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259664246 This story is confusing and deals with causation. One always thinks that there must be a reason for something happening or a logical explanation. This isn't true in the story and we see Chioma battle with herself to try and reason about what is happening. As a cop, she is used to finding evidence and discovering what exactly happened. She isn't able to have an 'aha moment' or any 'revelations' because of the mystical writing of this story. Okorafor writes a very cool story in which there is a fictional character unaware that they are in a fictional environment and plot and the way the two interact is very interesting and a bit confusing. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259664246 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259668703 I feel like this quote is trying to say how different cultures understand things differently, because of the various practices they follow. It might be a bit of a stretch but an example I though of was how the grandma and aunt viewed the tar spirit monster thing versus how the main character saw it. to the two woman the creature was just a fact of life, but to the main character it was a life changing experience. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259668703 jonahminkus https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259679346 I was very confused when I first read this passage in the context of the story. I like this passage because it illustrates the main characters genuine confusion. As the reader we are experiencing this same confusion and strangeness with her and we also do not fully understand what has happened.]]> 2021-03-02 17:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259679346 evan_medrano https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259681555 Though this can be interpreted as people don't experience nor understand nature and the world around them I think that this quote is referring to the greater world around us. This quote refers to the idea that yeah we may know (in this case) that its water but do we understand it do we realize that the water has history has bones. Its very easy to view anything and name said thing anything but the idea of understanding is something that is uncommon and difficult to achieve. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259681555 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259685132 Perhaps this means explaining confusion on something because you haven't experienced it? Just like in this story how no one was really explaining anything to her and she experienced something she literally could have never guessed would have happened. This proverb makes me think that maybe the grandma and the aunt didn't explain anything because she wouldn't have understood it anyway.]]> 2021-03-02 17:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259685132 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259693324 This is a very mind-boggling quote. I've read it over and over always asking more questions about what it could mean. What I've taken away from it is just because you can't see, touch or know something doesn't mean its not there.]]> 2021-03-02 17:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259693324 roberthanisee https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259702678 The more I read the story, the more intricate and confusing it became. I think the point of this story is to give the reader a feeling of confusion just as the character is confused. The story goes pretty unresolved and is written in a very non traditional style. It is interesting to be left with so many questions because it leaves the reader questioning the whole story. If we were left with a definite answer and conclusion, the story would be over both in the writing and in our minds. ]]> 2021-03-02 17:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259702678 camilovasquez2 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259709153 I believe that this can be interpreted as people being unable to understand what they don't know and don't know and just haven't experienced. No one could believe Chioma's story unless they had experienced it themselves. She also had no explanation for it until she went through this insane experience and even then she didn't really understand it.]]> 2021-03-02 17:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/hteta58xa83kb2fr/wish/1259709153