Reflective Flashcards

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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Love can make you immortal

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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Our lives are loved not just for ourselves but also for others

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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Letting go. People talk about it as if it’s the wastes thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one u till your hand is open.

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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Dying is easy. Living is hard

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you

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If I stay - gayle Forman

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I realize now that dying is easy, living is hard

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LINK BETWEEN IF I STAY AND THE BOY

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Changes

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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Let us begin - last line, shows that we can begin again

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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The shits rang out like an insult to the tranquility of the mountains, and her Body fell to the ground

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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Uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted

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LINK BETWEEN THE BOY AND THE BELL JAR

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War and inner war, identity

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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Because disloyalty never goes unpunished

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18
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The bell jar - Sylvia Plath

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Stewing in (her) own sour air

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

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It was Pierrot who had climbed out of bed that morning, but it was ouster who returned to it now before falling soundly asleep

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23
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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The bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn’t descend again?

24
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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I saw avocado pear after avocado lead being stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise and photographed under brilliant lights

25
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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I am. I am. I am.

31
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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I felt very still and very empty

32
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LINK BETWEEN THE BELL JAR AND AMERICANAH

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Cement in her soul

35
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Americanah- Adichie

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Why do you say Africa instead of the country you mean?

36
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Americanah- Adichie

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America had subdued her

37
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Americanah- Adichie

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Bananas were so big, do evenly yellow, she forgave them their tastelessness

38
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Americanah- Adichie

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They were conditioned to fill silences

39
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Americanah- Adichie

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She was not curvy or big bones; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true

40
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Americanah- Adichie

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The pleasure she took in being mistaken for mixed race - Kosi

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Americanah- Adichie

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Big men and big women, Obinze would later learn, did not talk to people, they instead talked at people

42
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Americanah- Adichie

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It was here, at a Lagos salon, that the different ranks of imperial femaleness were best understood

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Americanah- Adichie

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Girlish and pliant - for the general

44
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Americanah- Adichie

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With the accent emerged a new persona, apologetic and self-abasing

45
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Americanah- Adichie

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Ifemelu watched her mothers essence take flight - religion

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Americanah- Adichie

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Americanah. Through telling the story of Ifemulu, Adichie provides a powerful critique of western society

47
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Americanah- Adichie

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America doesn’t care - race, don’t say you’re Ghanaian - you’re black

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Americanah- Adichie

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Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it