Mother to Mother Ch 2

Juxtaposition: two or more things placed close together with a contrasting effect.

How is juxtaposition used in Ch 2?

• To compare life in the USA to life in Mowbray, SA.

• To compare education in Gugulethu to education in the USA.

• To compare the lives of whites and blacks in Apartheid South Africa.

How does Amy's morning begin?

• She takes a phone call, showers, wraps herself in a big fluffy towel and then makes breakfast.

• She heats water for bathing before waking the others.

• She packs her bags.

• She writes letters.

How does Mandisa's morning begin?

• She takes a phone call, showers, wraps herself in a big, fluffy towel before making breakfast.

• She writes letters.

• She packs her bags.

• She heats water for bathing before waking the others.

How does Mxolisi's day begin?

• He heats water for bathing before waking the others.

• He gets out of bed as soon as he is woken.

• He is the last person to get up in the morning as he goes to bed very late.

• He writes letters.

What do the main characters have for breakfast?

• Mandisa: we don't know

  Amy: wholewheat toast with butter and marmite, a chunk of cheese, cold milk cereal and black coffee

  Mxolisi: coffee with bread and jam or peanut butter and fruit.

• Mandisa: coffee with bread and jam or peanut butter and fruit.

  Amy: we don't know

  Mxolisi: wholewheat toast with butter and marmite, a chunk of cheese, cold milk cereal and black coffee.

• Mandisa: wholewheat toast with butter and marmite, a chunk of cheese, cold milk cereal and black coffee.

  Amy: coffee with bread and jam or peanut butter and fruit.

  Mxolisi: we don't know

What do the main characters do each day?

• Mandisa: instead of going to school, roams around Gugulethu all day.

  Amy: goes to work as a helper in a white woman's home.

  Mxolisi: goes to university.

• Mandisa: goes to work as a helper in a white woman's home.

  Amy: goes to university

  Mxolisis: instead of going to school, roams around Gugulethu all day.

• Mandisa: goes to university

  Amy: instead of going to school, roams around Gugulethu all day.

  Mxolisi: goes to work as a helper in a white woman's home

  Mxolisi:

Mandisa's Day

• All of these

• She must work full time as her family could not survive on her husband's salary alone.

• She worries that she leaves home before her children go to school and returns when the sun is down, so is not home when her children get home form school.

• She issues chores to her children knowing that she will be too tired when she returns home to remember her instructions.

Amy's day:

• She walks to the station to catch a train to university.

• She listens to the radio as she drives to university where she is so busy she hardly has time to breathe.

• She gets home early to pack for her trip home.

Why does Amy drive her friends home to Guguethu at the end of the day?

• She tells Lumka that she insists as it will only take a few minutes.

• She doesn't want to say goodbye.

• Amy's two other friends really want to spend a little more time with Amy so they don't support Lumka when she tells Amy no.

• All these answers are correct.

Mxolisi's day:

• He doesn't go to school as he is boycotting per Operation Barcelona.

• He joins a large group of young men who roam the streets of Guglethu looking for 'reactionaries' and 'burning vehicles'.

• both of these