(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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N-The realities of the Congo wear away at Leah’s faith, causing her to lose her religion but maintain her idealistic passion (fueling her to become an activist)
I-“You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.”(324)
I-“Once every few years, even now, I catch the scent of Africa.”(87)
I-“To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democracy and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to
O-Short and clear details display lack of interest.
B-Representative of US citizens which ignore/deny negative US political involvement in other nations.
I-“I had no life of my own. And you'll say I did. You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin...”(9)
N-Strong character development from closed minded and sheltered towards full acceptance of the Congo and drive to advocate for them.
I-Clear concise and formal sentences demonstrating age and power.
B-Uses colloquial language which reveals her immaturity and youth
O-“For a long time I thought Mama was saying they were the Jimmy Crow, a name I knew from home”(117)
B-“Heck, wasn’t I the one hollering night and day that we were in danger?” (465).
G-Adah is crippled throughout the book, but towards the end, it becomes apparent that the majority of her disability was in her head. This represents the idea that sometimes the scientific viewpoint is pushed down and ignored even if it makes the mo
G-Adah’s most noticeable writing technique throughout the book is writing in palindromes. Palindromes have a symmetry when they are written which clearly contrasts the deformed looked of Adah, in that only one side of her is paralyzed.
B-“How did somebody get all the cuts to line up so perfect like that? What did they use, a pizza-pie cutter or what?”
G-"I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires." (141)
N-“In the beginning we were just about in the same boat as Adam and Eve” (101)
O-Her fear of God is still strong, as she has not yet questioned her beliefs due to her young age.
B-“I have a trick up my sleeve which I haven’t told a soul about, even though it’s the God’s honest truth and I know it: I have a good shot at the Ambassador… the French are all so much of a higher class…” (427)
G-“Walk to learn. I and Path. Long one is Congo. Congo is one long path and I learn to walk.” (135)
O-“I was bad. Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn’t” (153)
O-“I know the meek shall inherit and the last shall be first, but the Tribes of Ham were last” (238)
I-Uses large amounts of figurative language, such as imagery and metaphors
N-Developed and insightful thought seen in complex and cultured figurative language.
O-“I was glad nobody wanted to cut off my hands. Because Jesus made me white, I reckon they wouldn't.”(121)
G-“The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep." (347)
I-Compares herself as Nathan’s bride to the Congo and its missionaries.
G-Representative of US citizens which look for scientific ways to deal with US political involvement and logically evaluate the situation.
G-Adah is extremely detached throughout the book and actually views religion from a skeptical perspective which gives her the ability to look at things from a different angle. It gives her the thirty party advantage so that she has a holistic view o
B-Incredibly selfish and materialistic characterization (only cares about how a situation applies to her personally)
B-Obsession for superficiality and self-inflated ego mirrors that of Nathan.
B-“Not that I actually got a speck of attention on my birthday” (274)
G-“Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us. Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one’s fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed. When Jesus cured those cri
O-Lack of understanding of complex ideas demonstrates young age.
N-Representative of US citizens’ transformation from ignorance towards political action and reconciliation for the atrocities committed in US foreign involvement.
G-"Live was I ere I saw evil. Now I do not wonder at all. That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began.” (306)
O-Lack of figurative language, but repetition demonstrates lack of age and experience.
I-Use of formal and proper language reflects age
N-“Leah took it all--bones, teeth, scalp--and knitted herself something like a hair shirt” (491).
B-“Rachel seems incapable of remorse, but she is not. She wears those pale white eyes around her neck so she can look in every direction and ward off the attack” (491).
I-Demonstrates experience and wisdom, along with love to daughters
N-“‘You can’t just assume what’s right or wrong for us is the same as what was right or wrong for them,’ she (Leah) said.”
N-“I (Leah) was thrilled by the mere fact of his (Nathan’s) speaking to me in this gentle, somewhat personal way” (77).
I-“The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as a rope or absence of air, and like both of these things it can kill. My body understands there was no safe place for me to be.”(433)
N-Initially worshipped her father to a fault and adopted his worldview wholeheartedly until she became a free thinker and began her political activism.
G-“Then there is batiza, Our Father’s fixed passion. Batiza pronounced with the tongue curled just so means “baptism.” Otherwise, it means “to terrify.” Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we s
O-“Her real name is Mother and Misrus Price but her secret name to me is Mommy Mommy.” (215)
O-“The boys said, “Patrice Lumumba!” I told Leah that means the new soul of Africa, and he’s gone to jail and Jesus is real mad about it. I told her all that! I was the youngest one but I knew it.”(124)
B-Jejune thought is highlighted in use of childish figurative language
