ENGLISH NOTES: 10.26; SECTION 3A
Moment of silence/check-ins
KKT NOTES:
Obstacles Facing Doria:
- not having a father at home (p 13)
- Doria’s education (p 38)
- Mom’s accent (p 7)
- Racial tension (p 30)
- Strike at mom’s job (p 54)
- Jealous of Hamoudi (p 53)
- Her culture and background (p 4-5)
- Made fun of when little (p 27)
- Mom can’t read (p 38)
- Very closed minded (p 31)
- Money, poverty (p 2, 12, 15, 23, 24, 30, 33, 42)
- People who put down her and her mother based on their lives (p 17)
- Losing one of her only friends, Hamoudi (p 45-46)
- Treating her like a welfare junkie (p 16)
- Social worker shows of what she has and it makes Doria mad (p 60)
- Principal not believing her (p 4-5)
- Babysitting, mom doesn’t want her to (p 53)
- Not enough for rent (p 51)
- Fate has everything planned (p 10)
- Community being falsely accused with drugs (p 60)
- She doesn’t believe in herself
- Doesn’t make any effort in classes at school
- Not open to people or to new experiences
- Poverty and money saving is a huge issue
Expectations she faces as a girl:
- stereotypical jobs that women have (p 2)
- Every Monday visits Madame Burlaud (p 1)
- Get married to a boy who is already picked out for her (p 12, 20, 58)
- Supposed to be blonde (p 33)
- If a boy expected to be selling potatoes and turnips by age 16 (p 14)
- “She’s pretty smart like that for a chick.” (p 3)
- freaked out about maturing, zits, chest, greasy hair, gawky body, glassy eyes (p 41)
- not all educated= Mom (p 49)
- girls have bad education (p 36)
- take care of mother and herself (p 24)
- expected to bear sons for their husbands (p 2)
Elements of support she does have (external):
- staying for the end of the festival (p 45)
- Mme Burlaud tries to get Doria to talk about Dad/ family; afford a ski trip/group trip à boarding with other people; wants to help (p 4)
- Talked to same women (p 41)
- Art teacher is “supportive” (p 37)
- Mother keeps going/trying to support her (p 53)
- The rent lady offered a babysitting job (p 51)
- Riding on the metro escaping from her life for a day (p 21)
- Visiting her Aunt Zohra (p 25)
- Admires how strange her aunt is (p 26)
- The super’s wife telling her about babysitting to support her mother (p 51-53)
- Spends time talking to Hamoudi (p 19)
- Lila paying her to babysit (p 53)
- Nabil makes Doria feel better about herself (p 38)
- “She really makes me feel like she gives a damn about our lives” (p 9)
- book: Saharan Love at first sight (p 49)
How Doria survives/copes with her situation:
- she babysits Sara (p 51-53)
- looks down at people like Nabil (p 42)
- Relating everything to movies and TV shows to entertain her and help her comprehend things more clearly (p 34-35)
- By acting like she doesn’t care about anything (p 36)
- Caring for mom (multiple pages)
- Being somewhat realistic on life, not getting false hope (p 6, 60)
- By being more judgmental toward other people to stay tough (multiple pages)
- Having over the top fantasies about being rich and meeting Mr. Right (p 34)
- Survives the judgment put against her by being judgmental towards everyone else and makes herself feel better (p 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 17, 23)
- Mme Burlaud helps her to find things out about herself and she confides in her (p 55)
- Thinking about someone other than herself (inference; no p)