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Essay Topic 1

Afong believes being a woman is a punishment for wrongs she did when she was a man in another life. What does being a woman mean to Afong? What does her life reveal about gender roles?

Essay Topic 2

For hundreds of years, Chinese women's feet were broken and tightly bound to change their size. Why did women like Afong have their feet broken and bound?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of The Many Children of Afong Moy? How does the way that Ford uses the viewpoints of six different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having following different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 4

Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make...

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