Day 2

So Long a Letter Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What was the cause of the unrest in North Africa that Ramatoulaye describes in Chapter 10?

    The conflict that Ramatoulaye describes seems to be centered on disagreement over how the newly independent country should recreate itself. She writes that people were distracted by the "assimilationist dream of the colonist," which had changed their country, without their consent, in ways that did not fit their culture; now that the French had left, the unfittingness of many of these changes became clear.

  2. 2

    How would you describe the way in which Aunty Nabou raises young Nabou? Why does she raise her in this way?

    Aunty Nabou raises her niece, young Nabou, in a very...

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