Comments by Brenda Anaya Most recent public comments by Brenda Anaya https://nowcomment.com/users/91424 People were motivated by the gold mines because they lived live with it and know how to deal with it. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148666 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148666 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:00:34 -0400 The words that really stand out to me in the paragraph is "tight-puckered skin of her calves". I think Nadine decided to use these words because they help with the details and make it more realistic. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148656 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148656 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:54:50 -0400 Since the hometown was filled with gold people were looking for it making dumb of piles. No because when the wind would blow they would make dust storms. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148595 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148595 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:31:26 -0400 The hometown actually old and was rich because of the gold so she had what she needed in order to survive. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148588 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148588 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:30:02 -0400 she felt like she was being treated different because of her skin color and only got limited jobs. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148580 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233702?scroll_to=2148580 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:24:32 -0400 The lesson that Trevor learned was that you dont own the things you love. He could finally relate to what his friends felt when they felt betrayal, by telling the story about Fufi. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138516 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138516 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:42:33 -0400 Trevor included the sentence because he showed how much he cared for Fufi and that he wanted him back, and wasn't going to stop. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138514 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138514 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:40:37 -0400 Fufi was a significant part of Trevors life because Fufi brought happiness to his life. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138511 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138511 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:39:13 -0400 He included the flashback so people can understand that owning a black cat will be killed. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138509 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138509 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:37:54 -0400 This line is powerful because white people see videos of black people get beaten to death by other white. But black people see no problem because they obviously thought the cat was a witch. https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138506 https://nowcomment.com/documents/233921?scroll_to=2138506 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:34:36 -0400 Going to school change Mandela's identity because he learned about the history of British culture. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113963 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113963 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:05:55 -0400 They acquired knowledge by observation because no one ever went to school. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113961 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113961 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:04:12 -0400 Some skills he learned as a young boy were looked over sheep, learned how to hunt and learned how to catch birds in the air. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113959 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113959 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:02:45 -0400 The roles of the women and men were different because women had to work at home and do chores while been were out working on farms. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113942 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231404?scroll_to=2113942 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:59:42 -0400 This mindset helped Trevor's sense of pride because he knew his mom wasn't going to leave to go somewhere better so he left. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075564 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075564 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:28:32 -0400 The significance of the township of Soweto's was to trap people in if they broke the law, if they didn't obey they would bomb everyone. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075559 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075559 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:27:12 -0400 This reveals that his mother didn't care about the system because she went back like nothing happened because she wanted to do what she wanted to. She didn't care about th law and went with a white man. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075554 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075554 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:24:23 -0400 No, I don't think this was done anywhere else but in united states. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075552 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075552 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:22:19 -0400 Violence shaped Trevor's opinion about his community because he was so used to having violence where he lives that he knew instantly to run. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075549 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075549 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:19:21 -0400 He thinks that his mother should have been scared of the rioters because there were more of them and one of her. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075542 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075542 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:17:22 -0400 Noah used dialogue because he wanted us to have a perspective of both the talker and not just one of them. So it made if like we felt how he felt. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075509 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075509 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:15:35 -0400 The reason apartheid fell was because they felt like they weren't getting treated equally and South Africa went into war and thats when apartheid fell and Mandela walked free. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075490 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075490 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:12:36 -0400 The key ideas are "convincing people who are overwhelming majority to turn" he is trying to give us an idea. https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075467 https://nowcomment.com/documents/227825?scroll_to=2075467 Trevor included this introduction because he wanted to give us an idea what what we were going to read. In the text apartheid was when they separated all colors from each other and couldn’t talk to each, they’re convincing them that they couldn’t have a relationship or communication. Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:09:24 -0400