In the section of the book with the prologue and the first few pages of part one, how does the imagery associated with the cheetah metaphorically relate to what the author says about the bottles of shampoo in “directions?”

The description of the two different sets of labeling on the bottles reinforces the author’s point that females, girl children and women and cheetahs all alike, are kept from being their full, complete, wild, complex selves because of what outside forces and outside influences presume them to be, and expect them to be.  

In the section of the book including pages 21 through 40, the author offers an observation at the end of “dragons” that her idea of having more than one life was “interesting” (29). How does this comment relate to the book’s thematic consideration of living an untamed life?

In her comment, she is essentially reiterating the...