Quote 1: “The X-rays have returned,” he said, looking only at my uncle. His voice was slightly distorted by the mask, so he raised it slightly to make sure my uncle heard him. “There’s a problem.”
He knew that Uncle Joseph couldn’t speak and didn’t expect a reply.
“The children,” he said, glancing momentarily at Bob and me, “Appear to have tuberculosis.”
-said by the doctor on page 99
Significance: The reason that I choice this quote was because it changes the whole story, which means that they will have to stay in Haiti for another 6 months and won’t be able to see their family. I’m pretty sure that they will either go back to America to get a doctor or if they can’t, they will stay and their family will come to them. I really hate that another thing has to happen to ruin her life again; she just keeps getting devastating blows.
Question 1: Will her family come to her or will she head back?
Quote 2: “Don’t forget,” he told us, looking at our face at last. “Every morning when you take your pills, you’re closer to New York.”
-said by the doctor page 101
Significance: I thought that this quote showed them the hope in the situation. Even when they might have thought that there was none, it still showed through. I think that this was really important because now they will be more eager to get better.
Question 1: How will the situation that their daughter is in effect her parents?
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Feb 22, 2009
Brother, I'm Dying 2
Quote 1:”One day this will stop,” my mother told him. Then she ran home, crying.
Page 55, said by Edwidge’s mother
Significance: I chose this quote because it really made me sad to think that because of her pride, her mother didn’t want to get help from anyone else and that because she had no money at all, she had to drop the children off at their uncles house in order to eat. This shows how much she loves them, because she didn’t stay to eat, she went home and worked.
Question 1: Why does she choose to not care about herself and treat herself bad?
Quote 2: “I knew it,” she shouted. “I knew you’d act like this. I’m pregnant, not ungrateful.”
Page 78, said by Marie Micheline
Significance: I choose this quote because it really shows some of the culture of the people in this book. If you read the whole chapter you’d see that she was sent away because she was pregnant and the father didn’t admit to his family that he was the father. This shows how much of their culture revolves around respect.
Question 2: Why would Tante Denise send her away that quick, why didn’t she wait to see what the guy would do?
Page 55, said by Edwidge’s mother
Significance: I chose this quote because it really made me sad to think that because of her pride, her mother didn’t want to get help from anyone else and that because she had no money at all, she had to drop the children off at their uncles house in order to eat. This shows how much she loves them, because she didn’t stay to eat, she went home and worked.
Question 1: Why does she choose to not care about herself and treat herself bad?
Quote 2: “I knew it,” she shouted. “I knew you’d act like this. I’m pregnant, not ungrateful.”
Page 78, said by Marie Micheline
Significance: I choose this quote because it really shows some of the culture of the people in this book. If you read the whole chapter you’d see that she was sent away because she was pregnant and the father didn’t admit to his family that he was the father. This shows how much of their culture revolves around respect.
Question 2: Why would Tante Denise send her away that quick, why didn’t she wait to see what the guy would do?
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