https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq Made with a little mischief en-us 2017-08-23 13:53:48 UTC 2017-08-24 01:59:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329329 "Jaja of Opobo?... and when the British came, he refused to let them control all the trade. He did not sell his should for a bit of gunpowder like the other kings did, so the British exiled him to the West Indies. He never returned to Opobo" (144).]]> 2017-08-23 14:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329329 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329484 "and he would reach across and slap me on the face with the casualness of reaching for the pepper shaker" ]]> 2017-08-23 14:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329484 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329535 "Those shoulders that bloomed in Nsukka, that grew wide and capable, have sagged in the thirty-one months that he has been here" (300).]]> 2017-08-23 14:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329535 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329570 "'I knew that when the tea burned my tongue, it burned papa's love into me'" (3).]]> 2017-08-23 14:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329570 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329618 "All that cream blended and made the room seem wider, as if it never ended, as if you could not run even if you wanted to, because there was nowhere to run to" (41).]]> 2017-08-23 14:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329618 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329622 "This cannot go on, nwunye m," Aunty Ifeoma said. "When a house in on fire, you run out before the roof collapses on your head."]]> 2017-08-23 14:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329622 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329684 "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"(88).]]> 2017-08-23 14:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329684 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329766 "'Did you see your Papa-Nnukwu's face in death, Kambili?... He was smiling,' she said. 'He was smiling'" (186).]]> 2017-08-23 14:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329766 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329818 "I wanted to say I came in second so that he would know immediately, so that I would acknowledge my failure" (40). ]]> 2017-08-23 14:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329818 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329964 "Amaka laughed, a hearty laugh that showed her gap. 'You're funny.' I had never heard that before. I saved it for later, to ruminate over and over that I had made her laugh, that I could make her laugh"(266).]]> 2017-08-23 14:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182329964 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330042 "The new rains will come down soon"]]> 2017-08-23 14:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330042 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330226 "She did not even look at me as she spoke. I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers" (93)]]> 2017-08-23 14:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330226 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330362 "all the professors were white back then" Kambili narration]]> 2017-08-23 14:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330362 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330833 "I felt that I was at home, that I was where I had meant to be for a long time" (179). -Kambili]]> 2017-08-23 14:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182330833 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331170 "She was looking at me, but it was not the look I was used to, the one where her eyes held me guilty of things I did not know. It was a different, softer look"(173).]]> 2017-08-23 14:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331170 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331230 "Chineke! Bless my son, Eugene. Let the sun not set on his prosperity. Life the curse they have put on him" (168).]]> 2017-08-23 14:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331230 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331646
" It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then,  setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them...We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't."]]> 2017-08-23 14:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182331646 207008 https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182480127 " 'God knows best,' I said. 'God works in mysterious ways.' And I thought how Papa would be proud that I had said that, how he would approve of my saying that." (289)]]> 2017-08-24 01:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412083393/ynrru4n462wq/wish/182480127