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Requa I

Requa I. (pages 99-130) By: Stephanie Linares & Leondra Graves. Quick Review of Piece. The narrator regrets the choices she had made as a mother. i.e. the struggles to be a parent during the Great Depression, etc.

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Requa I

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  1. Requa I (pages 99-130) By: Stephanie Linares & Leondra Graves

  2. Quick Review of Piece • The narrator regrets the choices she had made as a mother. • i.e. the struggles to be a parent during the Great Depression, etc. • These are short stories about the variety of ways that people need love, friendship, companionship, and offer it to each other. • For every characters that survives there is another one that turns away, overcome by sadness or fatigue.

  3. ‘Requa I’ Review • The spacing in the chapter was key to what the author was trying say. • Instead of commas, she uses extra spaces and indentations to further emphasize what she is talking about. • Focuses on a 13 year old orphan with no name. Referred to only as, ‘That boy’. • Shows scenes of his daily life. • Going to school, work, home to the orphanage, and acquaintances.

  4. Interpretations

  5. “He didn’t understand how it was that he was sitting up or why he didn’t have a bed to lie down in or why or where he was going. All he wanted was to lie down forever.” (pg. 101)

  6. “He had been holding up his head forever.” (p. 99-101)

  7. “You leave the only thing I ask you to do, for me to do, on my day off. My one day off.” (p. 107)

  8. “don’t lay down once, not once. Neat up this room. If there is going to be any hot water, get yourself scrubbed up for school tomorrow squeak clean” (p. 111) VS. • “…then, painfully, got up, pulled off his clothes, went over and knelt by Wes’s bed to tug off the offending shoes and cover him.” (p. 124)

  9. “Budded on Earth Blooming in Heaven” (p.129)

  10. Who/what is Requa?

  11. Why does the boy continuously sleep?

  12. Who do you think Wes is to The Boy?

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