As you read "My Parents' Bedroom" in Say You're One of Them. Take note of the everyday details that find their way into the story. Note the following:
Sights:
Sounds:
Smells:
Tastes:
Textures:
Then answer the following question. Which details help you to relate to or identify with the narrator of the story?
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ReplyDeleteSights: darkness just a candle to light the room, rays of sun coming in though
ReplyDeleteThe holes from walls and windows.
Sounds: shouts and screaming from Monique when the Hutu is trying to rape her.
Smells: fathers hands smell of raw eggs
Tastes: saliva is salted with blood
Textures: paps hands are very dirty the gutters around his nails are swollen with black mud, Helens foot is dangling on strings, Maman's blood is thick like red shampoo.
The death of Maman the blood thick like red shampoo. Maman didn't like her daughters appearance because she looked like her even though Maman is described as a very beautiful Tutsi woman, but Maman doesn't treat Jean like Monique when Maman sprays Jean with the bottle of Amour Bruxelles and Monique begs her to put some on her and she refuses even Monique says Maman's love for me is different when she looks at me she becomes sad. Maman knew life was going to treat Jean different than Monique because Jean looked Hutu and Monique looks Tutsi. Maman believed that one day Monique would die just like her and it would be her fault because Monique got her appearance from her, but Maman says Monique would understand when she grows up.
Sight: There was darkness, shattered windows, torn up furniture and a candle for light.
ReplyDeleteSound: There were sounds of packs of men searching for something, screams from a young girl and banging from tossing furniture.
Smell: They smelled fear in the air.
Textures: The old mans hair looked as if it was not combed for years and he had no teeth in his mouth.