(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. 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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“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
“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)
Clear concise and formal sentences demonstrating age and power.
Uses large amounts of figurative language, such as imagery and metaphors.
“Not that I actually got a speck of attention on my birthday” (274)
“In the beginning we were just about in the same boat as Adam and Eve” (101)
“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)
“Leah took it all--bones, teeth, scalp--and knitted herself something like a hair shirt” (491)
Incredibly selfish and materialistic characterization (only cares about how a situation applies to her personally).
Strong character development from closed minded and sheltered towards full acceptance of the Congo and drive to advocate for them.
“Heck, wasn’t I the one hollering night and day that we were in danger?” (465
“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).
Jejune thought is highlighted in use of childish figurative language.
“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)
Uses colloquial language which reveals her immaturity and youth.
“Once every few years, even now, I catch the scent of Africa.”(87)
Use of formal and proper language reflects age.
“How did somebody get all the cuts to line up so perfect like that? What did they use, a pizza-pie cutter or what?”
Obsession for superficiality and self-inflated ego mirrors that of Nathan.
Representative of US citizens which ignore/deny negative US political involvement in other nations
“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)
Demonstrates experience and wisdom, along with love to daughters
“‘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.”
Compares herself as Nathan’s bride to the Congo and its missionaries.
Developed and insightful thought seen in complex and cultured figurative language.
