Why was loving her father difficult for Adeline? Provide a TLQC or a TLPC
from the book as part of your response.

Adeline's relationship with her father is distant and strained. She would love nothing more than to have a close relationship with her father. Her father, however, blames Adeline for her mother's death, and after marrying Niang, care only about keeping his new wife happy.

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”