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Reading Notes: West Africa, Anansi and Nothing


  •  My favorite character in the story was Nothing
  • I don't understand how a man got so rich but was persuaded so easily as Nothing was
  • I could change the story to make at as Nothings idea to switch to see which women wanted him for who he was and who wanted him for his money
  • I also could make it to where after Nothing found his wife she was secretly evil and played tricks on the town
  • Nothing was tricked into stepping out of his house even though his wife told him not to and was killed by Anansi
  • I feel I could change the way Anansi killed nothing or make it where Nothing turned the table and captured Anansi instead or maybe Nothing could fall into a pit of poison snakes
  • I don't understand the last paragraph. I think I would change it to where the village people cooked Nothings wife food and then they would "cry for nothing"
Anansi and Nothing by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair; Link to the reading online


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