Saturday, July 26, 2008

Chapter 1 - Fruit in the Hands of the Gods

(5) creation story

(6) first we see of the author (after the intro) - she drinks kava and then picks her teeth - a grand entrance, I like that

(6) compares the kava drinking to communion - I get it - nice work, economic, descriptive

(7) nice - she admits she must have Western surroundings to be comfortable

(8) culture shock explained - examples

(11) "The beginning of the 1970's was neither the time nor the place to be proud of being an American." Vietnam, Kent State

(13-4) her domesticity

(14-5) Floyd is a strange character - "I am not sure we convinced Floyd that just as people choose to trace decent through their father's line, they can equally choose to trace it through their mother's line. But I did succeed in keeping clan membership in the questionnaire."

(19) ends with a letter home

a sort of random chapter - covered many topics - abrupt changes - though all about adjusting

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