Friday, February 20, 2009

Week One!

Welcome to Week 1 of our Discussion. This discussion will last from Monday, February 23rd to Sunday, March 1.

This week's discussion is on Character. Please POST a 10 sentence comment on character. Don't forget to comment on 5 other posts on this blog. You have all week to complete this assignment, but don't wait until the last minute!!!
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  1. JNFebruary 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM

    Okay. So the character that I wish to comment on is the grandmother. She seems to be a real tough cookie, with a lot background. I think that she will be very important when the genocide begins to happen in Darfur. I'm curious about the scars that this people do to themselves. I wonder how important that act is to the people, because it seems that the Grandmother is very aware of the importance of them. Halima seems to be very, very excited to get her scarring done. Grandmother Suhma is literally estranged from her husband. She must have been very strong to leave her husband and comforted world behind. But that leaving i think scarred her a lot, because she never seems to take any thing from anyone. She is a very prided lady.

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  2. KiraMarch 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

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  4. Andre BMarch 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM

    I am not reading this book but apparently Falling Leaves is supposed to also blog on this page because of the lack of readers. So my guess on the scarring(this maybe WAY off due to me not even knowing what I am talking about)from what I've read in your posts, are beauty marks. So I agree with Kira. But they may also scar themselves because it may be a mark of acceptance in some ways. But if I am way off correct me because I haven't a clue about this book...

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  5. Andre BMarch 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM

    Okay my second blog will be a response to Kira's second blog comment and JN's first. It seems as though in a lot of stories, the grandmother is quite a powerful person. In my book, there is a grandaunt(same difference) who owns a women's bank in the early sexist times of China. She stood up for herself and recieved the title of "granduncle"(accustomary for only the most sucessful women, to gain the title of their male counterpart). So I think grandma's have to be strong in the way that they are usually sucessful and rich in experience.

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