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In Book Six, Adah proclaims, “This is the story I believe in…” What is that story? Do Rachel and Leah also have stories in which they believe? How would you characterize the philosophies of life at which Adah, Leah, and Rachel arrive? What story do you...
3. What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? Are there Christian parallels to the constellation of meanings and beliefs attached to nommo? How do the Price daughters’ Christian names and their acquired Kikongo names reflect their...
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7. What differences and similarities are there among Nathan Price’s relationship with his family, Tata Ndu’s relationship with his people, and the relationship of the Belgian and American authorities with the Congo? Are the novel’s political details--both...
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8. How does Kingslover present the double themes of captivity and freedom and of love and betrayal? What kinds of captivity and freedom does she explore? What kinds of love and betrayal? What are the causes and consequences of each kind of captivity...
. At the novel’s end, the carved-animal woman in the African market is sure that “There has never been any village on the road past Bulungu,” that “There is no such village” as Kilanga. What do make of this?
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. At Bikoki Station, in 1965, Leah reflects, “I still know what justice is.” Does she? What concept of justice does each member of the Price family and other characters (Anatole, for example) hold? Do you have a sense, by the novel’s end, that any true justice has occurred?
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