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  1. What are the differences between the narrator and her mother? Be sure to look at the explicit and implicit differences.

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    Exploring the Text: - What are the differences between the narrator and her mother? Be sure to look at the explicit and implicit differences.
  2. How does Edwidge Danticat maneuver between two, if not three, geographical settings? Who seems to have more flexibility, the narrator or her mother? Explain your answer.

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    Exploring the Text: - How does Edwidge Danticat maneuver between two, if not three, geographical settings? Who seems to have more flexibility, the narrator or her mother? Explain your answer.
  3. How do the changes in type style, between bold and regular font, and the white space create structure for the story?

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    Exploring the Text: - How do the changes in type style, between bold and regular font, and the white space create structure for the story?
  4. Who are “New York day women”?

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    Exploring the Text: - Who are “New York day women”?
  5. How would you describe the narrator’s attitude toward her mother?

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    Exploring the Text: - How would you describe the narrator’s attitude toward her mother?
  6. How does Danticat develop the tension between the life that the narrator’s opportunities have given her and the life of her mother?

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    Exploring the Text: - How does Danticat develop the tension between the life that the narrator’s opportunities have given her and the life of her mother?
  7. Why do you think the author gave the narrator the following words: “perhaps one day I would chase an old woman down a street by mistake and that old woman would be somebody else’s mother, who I would have mistaken for mine” (par. 39)?

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    Exploring the Text: - Why do you think the author gave the narrator the following words: “perhaps one day I would chase an old woman down a street by mistake and that old woman would be somebody else’s mother, who I would have mistaken for mine” (par. 39)?