These are our LAST questions for the class! We'll just have a Reading Exam on Friday, so be sure to finish the book by then. Hopefully, these last readings will give you more ideas to help you approach the Final Project, which we'll talk a bit more about on Friday. Let me know if you have any questions...
Answer TWO of the following
Q1: To bring about a truce between the Khoush and the Meduse, Binti invokes "deep culture," something she claims "Never in a thousand years would I have believed it would move through me." What is deep culture in the story, and what might it represent outside of the story (esp. in terms of earlier works from the class--the Tao te Ching and the Prophet, for example)?
Q2: Why do the Himba elders decide to abandon Binti and sacrifice her to the two warring races? Don't they want peace, especially given the famous saying "When elephants fight, the grass suffers"? How does this confirm many of Binti's suspicions about the tribe (and the elders, especially)?
Q3: After Binti's death, Mywinyi remarks that "She's a master harmonizer, but what harmony did she bring? I couldn't understand her. She seemed broken." How might Binti have been broken prior to her death? Though she seemed to have finally found her identity, what conflict might have continued to unbalance her?
Q4: When Binti is resurrected by New Fish, she learns that she has become part of New Fish's biology; or, as the ship explains, "You are probably more microbes than human now." Does this suggest that 'Binti' is truly dead, and the new Binti is finally something else--something no longer tied to Himba or Meduse? Or can she be Binti in any body, even one that is scarcely a human being? (in the same way, if you could put someone's memories into a computer, would the computer be that person...or just a program?)
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