https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8 C Block en-us 2021-03-01 15:42:35 UTC 2021-08-20 16:27:23 UTC hello@padlet.com arthurknox1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1253793239 "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 15:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1253793239 arthurknox1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1254030400 "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 16:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1254030400 finnhautau https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255090156 Prompt 1: When the brawl begins on Chioma's plane home from Nigeria, Okorafor writes: "I don't even hesitate" (100). She seems to know what to do, as if something suddenly makes sense. Perhaps this is the aha moment she was missing following her being attacked and having her hands severed and reattached. However, the granting of healing powers after the attack would make sense, since the little boy healed so quickly. I bet researching more into Igbo culture would give some clarity. 

Prompt 2: Chioma had healing powers the whole time? Her hands saved her life in the alley a long time ago, when they had unprecedented strength. They also walked around on their own when they were cut off. Maybe ]]> 2021-03-01 19:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255090156 christophercarlin https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255090302 yeah kinda felt like a drug trip, or maybe like a medical episode? But the thing that I just looked up was "Palm Wine". Its not only an alcoholic drink consumed at home and social events (has distinct usage), but then there's also Palm-Wine Music which is a West African Musical genre that is a "light, easy, lilting style" (Wikipedia). Idk if that means anything but apparently palm wine was important according to that seller. Really its as confusing to the read as it is to the protagonist I feel,  often not having a meaning to actions leaves us confused and searching, I feel that humans are always searching for meanings in things. For example, 'the meaning of life', it just happened and we're here, thats literally it, we're just vibing and somehow we have the thinking abilities that we have, but we can't just accept that as an answer so we make shit up so we can believe and have meaning: Religion is a great example here. But for those that can't make up meaning/goals, they feel lost, with no true meaning to life despite being told by others that there is likely* a meaning (often times success or happiness, vague things).]]> 2021-03-01 19:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255090302 branchdemersseman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255091230 Because we normally interact with and perceive water in a a way that requires very little consideration of it, we have a tendency to ignore the innate power water has. 
If we were to interact with water in a more regularly arduous manner, like chewing it, we might consider water and its ability more closely.]]> 2021-03-01 19:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255091230 codyhustead1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255093439 Prompt 1:  This passage can reflect how life can be. Where it can be painful, mystifying, in fearful. It can leave you sometimes at a blank in life and the progression to move willing forward. You will be unprepared when live may give you things that you may not relies what you will need them for. Every single day death gives us sweet kisses. Waiting for us. There are chances that can be like hers having some mystic force pull us back together again. We may not feel whole at first but get use to it over time.  ]]> 2021-03-01 19:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255093439 ben_arndt https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255094243 This passage in some ways, is a reflection of how  Okorafor consistently subverts your expectations in terms of what you come to expect from a fictional story. By not constraining herself to the typical "Hero's Journey" it gives the space to tell introspective  and physiological stories like this one. I love the Idea that for once instead of letting the character's solve their own problems, it lets both the conflict and resolution blow over like a passing storm. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255094243 victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255095008 This line actually really struck me as well because throughout the story I was thinking about how, at least, in the few stories we have read so far, there is no grand realization and concrete explanation of what exactly happened and why that thing happened. So throughout this story I was wondering if we were ever going to get that release of knowing why these things happen but in reality I just got more confusing content, so it was kind of affirmative that the narrator of this particular story outright acknowledged that.]]> 2021-03-01 19:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255095008 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255095932 I think we are always looking for some way to explain horrible events, if it's really unexplainable we attribute it to luck or karma or god's wrath or something like that. It is very hard for us to accept bad things happening to us if we don't see a reason for it. The main character just experienced something truly terrible and unbelievable, and she is expressing the frustration that comes with not being able to understand it 

]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255095932 peterjaramillo1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255096418 To me this passage is about trauma, the painful experiences of life that we all must face. This is why she is saying she needs some space and time by herself. Being a victim of an unsolved hit and run, it is trauma that no one will know or understand and there is nothing that can change the emotional pain that will linger with her till death.]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255096418 gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255099114 I think this passage is a reflection of how life can be so uncertain at times and instances can have no real explanation (ie. The supernatural, death, grief etc) Chioma has been in a near death experience and wakes up knowing nothing but pain. To even begin to fathom what just occurred will probably take her years. To be ripped apart and put back together by some paranormal creature is bad enough, but finding out that your grandmother and aunt are part of a group that heals the "chosen ones" is also very stressful. 
It is also interesting to note that both Chioma and the boy from the beginning of the story had these experiences with the creature because they had escaped death before...I would like to explore that thought further.]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255099114 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255099279 This passage kind of explains how things in life can be so crazy and somethings may feel unsolved which frustrates . For example this story had so much going on with very detailed information. It showed how the main character was struggling. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255099279 kaigutjahr1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255100646 I always feel like these kinds of stories are so bizarre, and you want to know what happens next but you can't stop focusing on the why. Sometimes it becomes apparent, sometimes not; if it doesn't, that generally means it's not important.

The Igbo proverb is somewhat odd to me, because I don't understand what it means that water has bones. I presume that should you chew water, it doesn't crunch.]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255100646 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255100650 When I read this I agreed that as a reader I did not see how the event the main character experienced had a ¨deeper meaning¨ or an ¨aha moment¨, but when I finished the book and took time to look some of the words up I kind of pieced together an idea on what this story might be trying to tell us. Okorafor mentions a lot of ancient wisdom and imagery of people from masquerade and to me these things represent the acts of celebrating ones culture. To me, the main character was experiencing a moment where her heritage was overwhelmingly surrounding her and was trying to get her to accept her heritage and who she really is. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255100650 saskiabauman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255101650 Why did she choose hit and run? It could also be any kind of thing like that. Maybe because a car is part of travel. Did no one know the motive or did Nigerians know. How did her aunt and grandma know to put her in the middle of the road. Do they even know what's going on? Do they change when it rains? It kind of seems like she has a bit of an aha moment on the plane when she helps that lady. Even though maybe she's not consciously understanding what is happening to her she has an innate understanding. Then she says she's heading home in a few days. Perhaps to say she won't have to think about it after that? or that she would have to resolve this issue before then and didn't have much time left to understand what had happened to her]]> 2021-03-01 19:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255101650 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255104475 people seem to be constantly looking for an answer and it's really hard to accept that that doesn't always come. when the why can't be explained people turn to others for help, like god, or some plan or maybe figures on earth. This passage captures the feeling of unknowingness and the desire to find a resolution]]> 2021-03-01 19:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255104475 victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255112670 To me this proverb can mean two things. One I think is the power of nature and also the way that nature and different aspects of nature are super important in defining humans and cultural groups. Water always comes from somewhere and is important to every human civilization. I think it can also show that sometimes we take things too much at face value and don't try to find something that on the surface may not seem like it it there. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255112670 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255118274 To me this proverb seems to mean that the way we move about the world limits the way we are able to understand it. Like we always drink water rather than chew it, we would never even think to chew it. But because of that limitation of our thinking, we don't know that water has bones. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255118274 branchdemersseman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255121906 what stands out to me most in this passage is Chioma's description of herself as the victim of an unsolved hit-and-run. That despite the fact that she had direct experience with the event she has no ability to identify what happened. This makes me think that the character might have a lack of understanding around the forces that caused the hit and run which, in this case, came from the earth. This is consistent later in the story when Auntie Amak says that this is the way things have always been without people knowing why. It goes to a general lack of understanding around nature and the natural. Things will happen whether or not anyone considers them. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255121906 ben_arndt https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255123584 This proverb is meant to make the reader rethink the manner in which they observe and think about the world around them. It feels reminiscent of the "Inbetweeness" we recently explored in our class, with both having the intention of making you see things that you wouldn't have seen before. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255123584 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255130214 Okorafor’s writing is in some ways more realistic than a lot of things we read; the story doesn’t go where you would expect, you don’t get answers, there’s no explanation for what happens a lot of the time. It’s more like real life. You might want explanations for why something happened, but in real life you might never get them. People tend to feel comforted by the ideas like “everything happens for a reason,” but in reality, plenty of things happen that have no reason or no explanation. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255130214 jamiemeuth1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255131943 I think this passage is about her mind coping with what she saw and felt and heard, and trying to rationalize it. All that she's left with are the lines on her wrists that would eventually fade, and her memories. When she's on the plane and she rubs all of her scars and mosquito bites and everything off of her body, how can she trust that her memories aren't playing tricks on her if she doesn't have any physical reminders of what she went through?]]> 2021-03-01 19:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255131943 codyhustead1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255132534 This is able to show humans capability of understanding. It shows that we may know.  Life limits us to obtain certain knowledge.  We can expand that knowledge fractions at a time. By the time we get to the full image we will already be done.  ]]> 2021-03-01 19:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255132534 peterjaramillo1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255135553 This sounds like a meme, I'm not sure what on earth this could mean. Maybe it is supposed to be a critique on how peoples perspectives can be misleading. That people don't see things from perspectives that aren't their own. Idk lol also if you are chewing your water you need to let it defrost more, or get cleaner water lol. I'm taking this too literally but I need to keep writing, chewy water makes me laugh though.]]> 2021-03-01 19:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255135553 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255142602 2021-03-01 19:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255142602 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255149486 this passage seems to mean that we live through life how we see it rather than how it could be. We don't know if water has bones because we don't chew it. we don't chose to chew it and dismiss this idea because it's different to what we know. Being surrounded by things we know and understand is comforting and that's why people try to understand everything. To find comfort. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255149486 jamiemeuth1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255151588 The proverb relates to the chapter we just read very well, because Chioma now has to question her memories and what she thinks she knows about what happened to her. My understanding of the proverb is that people are only limited by their own minds. We don't know water has bones because we don't chew it. But we only don't chew it because we see it as not having bones because it's clear, fluid, and is constantly changing. So we don't know what we don't know because we don't try (or think outside of the box). I think that changes as our memories, what we think we know, and our perception of reality change.]]> 2021-03-01 19:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255151588 christophercarlin https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255151720 It implies that water has bones, so ice has bones and now water isn't boneless ice?? ok. It challenges what we believe to be true, what we perceive because of maybe, societies and expectations, preconceived notions. We do be living in a society😳. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255151720 saskiabauman https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255152507 People instinctively know how to prevent themselves from harm. They know chewing water would be like chewing bones even if they haven't experienced it so they don't chew water. Or water is more complicated than we realize because we only interact with it in one way. Our understanding is limited by norms and we don't see things because we just cannot or will not go against these norms]]> 2021-03-01 19:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255152507 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255152649 This passage is kind of weird in a sense but it also makes the reader think about what the author is trying to say. I think the author is trying to make the reader rethink everything. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255152649 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255153545 Not sure what this means if I am being honest, but in both of the stories we read Okorafor has imagery of water. I am not sure what the meaning behind the use of water is. 
This Proverb is confusing to me because I just took a sip of water and I can confirm there was no crunch.]]> 2021-03-01 19:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255153545 gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255154960 I find this proverb very interesting because it allows readers to look at life from a different perspective. I think it is basically saying that people don't know the struggles that some go through because they haven't had to experience it themselves. I would say that subjectivity is a very prominent theme in this Igbo proverb. ]]> 2021-03-01 19:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255154960 https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255159658 I think this proverb could mean that we can be limited by the way we think about things/are taught to think about things. If we challenge the ideas that we take for granted, maybe we would learn more.]]> 2021-03-01 19:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/arthurknox1/u71ixk53393fmpl8/wish/1255159658