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Dancing
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"Dancing" from Digging Up the Mountains

 
Issues for Discussion
 
  • the narrator--Sister James Sheila, her life back home and in Toronto
back home 
The narrator's shack (p. 187) 
her relationship with the Doc (188); his indifference; 
pink, heart-shaped flower (191) 
working for an Indian family for sixty a month (189) 
Georgie, the father's  outside-child 195  & police corruption
in Toronto 
Annie--Caribana and racism  189; tired 194; "you have to become West Indian" (197); views about Ontario Science Center 201;  tall building 201 
Sheila--dizzy-dizzy, cloudy-cloudy, faces, faces, faces; mostly white faces 193-94; missing the mother's grave 197; her response to Annie's words 198; surprised at white workers 200; elevator 201; 
 
 
  • Syl's room dancing 202 -
    Sheila's distance from the people there
    How does she feel about the lights outside (205)?  Why does she feel ashamed?  Why does she feel sick (207)?
    Why does she "dance like [she] never dance before" at the end?
 
 
   
 
   
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