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"At home the bathroom was right next door to her own room, and she could find her way there with her eyes shut, almost without waking up. Here it was way down the hill, and there might be leopards, and she had to wait till it was light. Homesickness had suddenly ambushed her (41)." | "At home the bathroom was right next door to her own room, and she could find her way there with her eyes shut, almost without waking up. Here it was way down the hill, and there might be leopards, and she had to wait till it was light. Homesickness had suddenly ambushed her (41)." | ||
Revision as of 17:37, 23 August 2011
Bone from a Dry Sea Pages 41-49
Summary
Pages 41-49 are the third Now chapter of Bone from a Dry Sea. This chapter takes place Monday Morning. There are a lot of examples of geographic imagination at the beginning of the chapter (the examples show this below). After everyone wakes in the camp, Vinny is introduced to Nikki Mako. Vinny believes that he is an amazing artist, and he is. At the very end of the chapter, Dr. Hamiska mentions taking Vinny to an outcrop beyond H8. Her dad does not like the idea, but allows Vinny to go.
Geographical Imagination
Geographical Imagination - Interpreting the world around you based on your own unique understandings, perceptions, and knowledge
Examples in A Bone from a Dry Sea:
"At home the bathroom was right next door to her own room, and she could find her way there with her eyes shut, almost without waking up. Here it was way down the hill, and there might be leopards, and she had to wait till it was light. Homesickness had suddenly ambushed her (41)."
"...tapped out her slippers in case scorpions had decided they'd make a cozy lair... On the way up the path from the latrines she found that Africa had its own smell, which the dawn dew brought out, faint and sharp... (42)"
"She had a mosquito net over her bed, but something had bitten her left arm all the same. It was all right-once Mom had accepted that Vinny was really going to Africa, she'd taken charge and made sure she had all the right injections and took all the right pills. She'd even gone up to London and got special stuff from the British Airways shop in Regent Street (41)."
Dating
It is possible to tell the time period within which this book is set by the following examples:
You don't get that on TV (42). This shows that the book is set in a fairly recent time period, because TV was only made widely available within the past 50-100 years.
'That reminds me, she said. 'This book I read- it wasn't one of the ones you said, but it was on the same shelf. It said the reason we don't have fur like chimps and gorillas... (44). This shows that the theory of evolution was in the process of acceptance and probing at this time period.
