no name woman

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

No Name Woman

Jet Karreman, Yvan van Arkel, Britt van de Peppel

Assignment

With the use of the next slides we will be analysing No Name Woman.

Have your short story, answers to the study questions and pen and paper ready.

Ask questions whenever you feel like it

What do you know about the story?

Who is the narrator of "No Name Woman"?

1. The aunt
2. The mother
3. The daughter
4. The niece

What is the Gold Mountain?

Why is the aunt a No Name Woman?

Cito question 

Please take page one in front of you

Where did the aunt give birth to the illegitimate child?

1. In a chicken coop
2. In a pigsty
3. In a cowshed
4. In bed

Cito question 

Please take page one in front of you

How did the aunt kill herself and her child?

1. She jumped in front of a train at a railway station near by her home.
2. She jumped into the family well in China.
3. She jumped of the bridge that was next to their home.
4. She killed the child and then overdosed herself

What is the subtitle of the short story?

To whom can the way of using space be compared?

1. The aunt
2. The niece
3. The mother
4. The sister

Why does Kingston say that she has







Why does Kingston say that she
participated in her aunt’s punishment? 

Kingston's mother uses a talk-story. What does that mean?

Cito Question 

What symbol represents isolation, safety, fortune and possibility in The Woman Warrior?

1. Birds
2. Mountains
3. Bound Feet
4. Circles

Cito question 

In the following sentence a figure of speech is used. What is this figure of speech called and how do you recognize it?

Like a great saw, teeth strung with lights, files of people walked zigzag across our land, tearing the rice.

Cito question 

Give one of the reasons why the aunt isn't a scandal according to the text?

How does Kingston tell the story of her aunt?

1. With emphasis on the horror
2. With emphasis on the disapproval
3. With emphasis on the anger
4. With emphasis on the joy

Who is the protagonist?

 Why does Kingston’s mother tell Kingston the story of her aunt?

What is more important in the Chinese culture Kingston describes, the individual or the community?

Individual

community

Give an example from the story why you know that the community is more important.

Cito question

Why is the text so chaotic?

The end

thank you for participating !!