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Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of individual chapters in I Am a Girl from Africa do so for their chapters? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Again, typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Taken together, do the epigraphs of individual chapters in I Am a Girl from Africa do so for the memoir as a whole? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

What significance, if any, accrues to the use of proverbs from different regions as epigraphs for individual chapters? How does the significance accrue?

Essay Topic 4

Readerly attention focuses on the concluding section of Chapter 1 (8): “I will never forget this moment, when I hovered so close to death and was saved just in time. What I don’t yet...

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