Possessing the Secret of JoyChapter Analysis Questions

Part 14-181. Why do the women come and sing and congregate outside of

Evelyn-Tashi’s window? 2. Why does she feel alone in the absences of the women’s noise

and singing despite the fact that her family is present with her? 3. What since can you make out of what Pierre was explaining to

Benny regarding the leader in 912? 4. Why do you think Adam sees Tashi as a child rather than as an

adult when she is hung in his dream? 5. What do the photographs that are brought in by the potter

represent? Why do you think they use to be given to children as “teaching tools”?

Possessing the Secret of JoyChapter Analysis Questions

6. Why do you think the dolls use to appear happy and now the dolls that little girls are given have vacuous faces?

7. Why do you think the picture of the three visages with their overlapping hands representing a wedding band represent to Tashi? Why do you think she has an awakening of some sort?

8. Tashi deciding to wear red symbolizes what change in her? 9. What does M’Lissa suggest the red on the lips of a women

represent? 10. How do Christians go through a rebirthing process similar to

the Olinka’s according M’lissa? 11. What initially kept Tashi-Evelyn from killing M’Lissa?

12. Why do you think Tashi describes Americans as herself; with hidden wounds? Do you think her description of an American is true?

13. What is a Tsunga? What is ironic about the type of Tsunga that M’Lissa’s mother was?

14. Why on page 220, did M’Lissa’s mother revisit the statute in the tree and kiss it, rewrap and then put it back and leave? What does it represent?

15. What did Tashi mean when she said “the God of woman is autonomy”?

16. Why did Tashi abort her daughter, but not her son?

Possessing the Secret of JoyChapter Analysis Questions