Proverb question
The book's title is attributed to an African proverb:
"It takes a village to raise a child."
there is a proverb that says 'Omwana takulila nju emoi,' whose literal translation is 'A child does not grow up only in a single home.' In Kihaya (Bahaya) there is a saying, 'Omwana taba womoi,' which translates as 'A child belongs not to one parent or home.' In Kijita (Wajita) there is a proverb which says 'Omwana ni wa bhone,' meaning regardless of a child's biological parent(s) its upbringing belongs to the community. In Kiswahili the proverb 'Asiyefunzwa na mamae hufunzwa na ulimwengu' approximates to the same."[7]
The saying and its attribution as an "African" proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book.
It originated from the Nigerian Igbo culture and proverb
"Ora na azu nwa"
which means it takes the community/village to raise a child.
The Igbo's also name their children "Nwa ora" which means child of the community.
It has been in existence in Africa for centuries. Indeed, the saying previously provided the source for the title of a children's book entitled It Takes a Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher, published in 1994.[6]
The authenticity of the proverb has been the subject of some controversy, however, as there is no evidence that the proverb genuinely originated with any African culture, although numerous proverbs from different cultures across Africa have been noted that convey similar sentiments in different ways: "While it is interesting to seek provenance in regard to the proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' I think it would be misleading to ascribe its origin to a single source.... Let me give a few examples of African societies with proverbs which translate to 'It takes a village...': In Lunyoro (Banyoro)
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Write the letter of the correct match next to each problem.
1. Acute streSS disorder a. unpleasent sensory or emotional experience arising from real or probable tissue damage
2. Disruptive behavior disorder b. having at least one changing personality that controls your behavior
3. Generalized anxiety disorder c. feel that certain things have to be perfect or done perfectly and if they are not these people will very anxious
4. Compulsive personality disorder d. makes it hard for a person to socialize with other people and for them to tell the difference between a real and unreal thing in thier life
5. Multiple personality disorder e. an unfounded or exaggerated distrust in others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions
6. Dissociative identity disorder f. repetitive behaviors are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away
7. Obessive-Compulsive disorder g. causes attacks of overwhelming fear or impending doom
8. Panic disorder h. caused by the worry of everyday things
9. Conversion disorder i. person cannot tell what is real and what is imagined
10. Brief psychotic disorder j. someone has two or more personalities, all of them with their own patterns having to do with the environment and themselves
11. Pain disorder k. experiences a pattern of disorganization, instability in mood, behavior, self-image and close personal relationships
12. Delusional disorder l. Psychological problems where you feel chronic pain
13. Narcolepsy m. a person seems to agree with someone, but on the inside they are actually resisting
14. Attention Defict disorder n. short-term break from reality
15. Paranoia o. where you cannot sit still, pay attention for very long, or act without thinking
16. Schizophrenia p. characterized ny antisocial behavior such as, being aggressive, being hyperactive, or inattentive
17. Somatization q. a condition in which people express emotional disotress through physical signs and symptoms
18. Passive-aggressive personality disorder r. sudden and uncontrollable drowisiness and attacks of sleep at unexpected times
19. Borderline personality disorder s. caused by an individual experiences, or see an event involving death and a person respondes to event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror
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Write the letter of the correct match next to each problem.
1. s Acute stree disorder a. unpleasent sensory or emotional experience arising from real or probable tissue damage
2. p Disruptive behavior disorder b. having at least one changing personality that controls your behavior
3. h Generalized anxiety disorder c. feel that certain things have to be perfect or done perfectly and if they are not these people will very anxious
4. c Compulsive personality disorder d. makes it hard for a person to socialize with other people and for them to tell the difference between a real and unreal thing in thier life
5. b Multiple personality disorder e. an unfounded or exaggerated distrust in others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions
6. j Dissociative identity disorder f. repetitive behaviors are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away
7. f Obessive-Compulsive disorder g. causes attacks of overwhelming fear or impending doom
8. g Panic disorder h. caused by the worry of everyday things
9. q Conversion disorder i. person cannot tell what is real and what is imagined
10. n Brief psychotic disorder j. someone has two or more personalities, all of them with their own patterns having to do with the environment and themselves
11. a Pain disorder k. experiences a pattern of disorganization, instability in mood, behavior, self-image and close personal relationships
12. i Delusional disorder l. Psychological problems where you feel chronic pain
13. r Narcolepsy m. a person seems to agree with someone, but on the inside they are actually resisting
14. o Attention Defict disorder n. short-term break from reality
15. e Paranoia o. where you cannot sit still, pay attention for very long, or act without thinking
16. d Schizophrenia p. characterized ny antisocial behavior such as, being aggressive, being hyperactive, or inattentive
17. l Somatization q. a condition in which people express emotional disotress through physical signs and symptoms
18. m Passive-aggressive personality disorder r. sudden and uncontrollable drowisiness and attacks of sleep at unexpected times
19. k Borderline personality disorder s. caused by an individual experiences, or see an event involving death and a person respondes to event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror
Write the letter of the correct match next to each problem.
1. Acute streSS disorder a. unpleasent sensory or emotional experience arising from real or probable tissue damage
2. Disruptive behavior disorder b. having at least one changing personality that controls your behavior
3. Generalized anxiety disorder c. feel that certain things have to be perfect or done perfectly and if they are not these people will very anxious
4. Compulsive personality disorder d. makes it hard for a person to socialize with other people and for them to tell the difference between a real and unreal thing in thier life
5. Multiple personality disorder e. an unfounded or exaggerated distrust in others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions
6. Dissociative identity disorder f. repetitive behaviors are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away
7. Obessive-Compulsive disorder g. causes attacks of overwhelming fear or impending doom
8. Panic disorder h. caused by the worry of everyday things
9. Conversion disorder i. person cannot tell what is real and what is imagined
10. Brief psychotic disorder j. someone has two or more personalities, all of them with their own patterns having to do with the environment and themselves
11. Pain disorder k. experiences a pattern of disorganization, instability in mood, behavior, self-image and close personal relationships
12. Delusional disorder l. Psychological problems where you feel chronic pain
13. Narcolepsy m. a person seems to agree with someone, but on the inside they are actually resisting
14. Attention Defict disorder n. short-term break from reality
15. Paranoia o. where you cannot sit still, pay attention for very long, or act without thinking
16. Schizophrenia p. characterized ny antisocial behavior such as, being aggressive, being hyperactive, or inattentive
17. Somatization q. a condition in which people express emotional disotress through physical signs and symptoms
18. Passive-aggressive personality disorder r. sudden and uncontrollable drowisiness and attacks of sleep at unexpected times
19. Borderline personality disorder s. caused by an individual experiences, or see an event involving death and a person respondes to event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror
Name __________________________________
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KEY: Match-up Worksheet
Write the letter of the correct match next to each problem.
1. s Acute stree disorder a. unpleasent sensory or emotional experience arising from real or probable tissue damage
2. p Disruptive behavior disorder b. having at least one changing personality that controls your behavior
3. h Generalized anxiety disorder c. feel that certain things have to be perfect or done perfectly and if they are not these people will very anxious
4. c Compulsive personality disorder d. makes it hard for a person to socialize with other people and for them to tell the difference between a real and unreal thing in thier life
5. b Multiple personality disorder e. an unfounded or exaggerated distrust in others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions
6. j Dissociative identity disorder f. repetitive behaviors are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away
7. f Obessive-Compulsive disorder g. causes attacks of overwhelming fear or impending doom
8. g Panic disorder h. caused by the worry of everyday things
9. q Conversion disorder i. person cannot tell what is real and what is imagined
10. n Brief psychotic disorder j. someone has two or more personalities, all of them with their own patterns having to do with the environment and themselves
11. a Pain disorder k. experiences a pattern of disorganization, instability in mood, behavior, self-image and close personal relationships
12. i Delusional disorder l. Psychological problems where you feel chronic pain
13. r Narcolepsy m. a person seems to agree with someone, but on the inside they are actually resisting
14. o Attention Defict disorder n. short-term break from reality
15. e Paranoia o. where you cannot sit still, pay attention for very long, or act without thinking
16. d Schizophrenia p. characterized ny antisocial behavior such as, being aggressive, being hyperactive, or inattentive
17. l Somatization q. a condition in which people express emotional disotress through physical signs and symptoms
18. m Passive-aggressive personality disorder r. sudden and uncontrollable drowisiness and attacks of sleep at unexpected times
19. k Borderline personality disorder s. caused by an individual experiences, or see an event involving death and a person respondes to event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror
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Girl, InterruptedSusanna Kaysen
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Analysis of Major CharactersCharacter List Susanna Kaysen - The author and narrator. A doctor diagnoses Kaysen with borderline personality disorder in 1967, when she is 17. The previous year, Kaysen attempted suicide by swallowing fifty aspirin. She voluntarily commits herself to McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Belmont, Massachusetts. Over the next two years, Kaysen confronts her illness, experiences profound unhappiness, as well as the treachery and kindness of peers and authority figures, and finally meets the future that awaits her outside the confining but protective walls of the ward.
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Lisa - Kaysen's fellow patient and the effective leader of the girls on the ward. Lisa is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, a personality driven by self-interest. Lisa is wildly unpredictable. She throws tantrums and plans escapes for others when she isn't making her own attempts to escape. Kaysen is initially in awe of Lisa's apparent confidence. Over time, though, she learns that Lisa cares little for the consequences of her actions and can be willfully cruel.
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Georgina - Kaysen’s roommate at McLean Hospital. Georgina suffers from depression and is a kind and constant companion to Kaysen. Georgina has a romantic relationship with Wade, a violent and unpredictable patient on another ward.
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Polly - A disfigured patient. Before entering McLean, Polly poured gasoline over her face and upper body and set herself aflame. Polly appears to be at peace, even cheerful, during her first year at the hospital. One day, Polly suddenly becomes aware of the awful extent of her injuries. She is inconsolable. Kaysen notes that although everyone at McLean is affected by sickness, Polly is the only patient trapped forever by the consequences of her illness.
Daisy - A patient who spends the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas at the hospital each year. Daisy lets no one into her room, emerging only for laxatives and the whole roast chickens her father brings twice weekly. Lisa discovers that Daisy’s room is filled with the picked-over carcasses of the chickens. Daisy leaves the hospital to live in an apartment her father has purchased for her. The girls later learn that Daisy committed suicide on her birthday.
Cynthia - A severe depressive on Kaysen’s ward. Cynthia undergoes months of electroshock therapy. The effects of the shock treatments change Cynthia’s personality, leaving her totally unable to assert herself. Cynthia is close to Polly.
Wade - Georgina’s boyfriend and a patient at McLean hospital. Wade is prone to violent outbursts, requiring several orderlies to subdue him. Wade fascinates the girls with stories of his father’s exploits as a CIA agent, including his associations with notorious figures from the Watergate scandal. Wade’s fits of uncontrollable rage ultimately land him in the maximum-security ward.
Lisa Cody - A patient who becomes fast friends with Lisa, only to be cruelly rejected. Diagnosed, like Lisa, as a sociopath, Lisa Cody emulates Lisa’s behavior. Feeling that her position among the girls is threatened, Lisa turns against her, and Lisa Cody leaves the hospital. Returning from an escape to Boston one day, Lisa tells the other girls that Lisa Cody has become a “real” junkie.
Torrey - A methamphetamine-addicted patient from Mexico. Torrey’s parents, embarrassed by their daughter’s condition, arrive to retrieve her after a short time. Lisa plans to help Torrey escape, but Valerie halts Lisa’s plan.
Alice Calais - A troubled patient who pronounces her last name “callous.” Alice’s mental breakdown results in her transfer to the maximum-security ward. Alice’s appearance and the frightening atmosphere of the ward appall the girls when they visit.
Valerie - The head nurse on Kaysen’s ward. The girls like and respect Valerie for her fairness and willingness to speak up on their behalf.
Melvin - Kaysen’s therapist. Impressed by Kaysen’s intelligence, Melvin begins an advanced program of analysis with her. Kaysen finds the experience unconvincing and discovers that she was Melvin’s first analysis patient.
Mrs. McWeeney - The evening nurse on Kaysen’s ward. Mrs. McWeeney hails from the old school. Her old-fashioned uniform and values alienate the girls.
Dr. Wick - An older female psychiatrist on the hospital staff. Dr. Wick is from Africa and is entirely unfamiliar with the American youth culture of her patients. Vulgarity and frank discussion of sex embarrass Dr. Wick, whose efforts at treatment are not necessarily effective.
James Watson - Nobel Prize–winning friend of Kaysen’s family. Beloved by Kaysen for his unpredictable behavior, he visits Kaysen and offers to help her escape. She turns him down in the belief that she should continue treatment.
Kaysen’s Husband - Introduced to Kaysen prior to her hospitalization, he stays in touch with her throughout her time at McLean. His marriage proposal allows Kaysen to leave the hospital. They are married only a short time.
The English Teacher - Kaysen’s high school teacher and lover. He takes her to the Frick Museum in New York, where she first sees the Vermeer painting titled Girl, Interrupted at Her Music. Their affair is short-lived.
The Diagnosing Doctor - The psychiatrist who encourages Kaysen to enter McLean Hospital. He diagnoses her in a mere twenty minutes. Kaysen believes that his swift diagnosis expresses the psychiatrist’s misguided effort to save her from the wayward youth culture he disdains and cannot understand.
Girl, InterruptedSusanna Kaysen
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Analysis of Major CharactersCharacter List Susanna Kaysen - The author and narrator. A doctor diagnoses Kaysen with borderline personality disorder in 1967, when she is 17. The previous year, Kaysen attempted suicide by swallowing fifty aspirin. She voluntarily commits herself to McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Belmont, Massachusetts. Over the next two years, Kaysen confronts her illness, experiences profound unhappiness, as well as the treachery and kindness of peers and authority figures, and finally meets the future that awaits her outside the confining but protective walls of the ward.
Read an in-depth analysis of Susanna Kaysen.
Lisa - Kaysen's fellow patient and the effective leader of the girls on the ward. Lisa is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, a personality driven by self-interest. Lisa is wildly unpredictable. She throws tantrums and plans escapes for others when she isn't making her own attempts to escape. Kaysen is initially in awe of Lisa's apparent confidence. Over time, though, she learns that Lisa cares little for the consequences of her actions and can be willfully cruel.
Read an in-depth analysis of Lisa.
Georgina - Kaysen’s roommate at McLean Hospital. Georgina suffers from depression and is a kind and constant companion to Kaysen. Georgina has a romantic relationship with Wade, a violent and unpredictable patient on another ward.
Read an in-depth analysis of Georgina.
Polly - A disfigured patient. Before entering McLean, Polly poured gasoline over her face and upper body and set herself aflame. Polly appears to be at peace, even cheerful, during her first year at the hospital. One day, Polly suddenly becomes aware of the awful extent of her injuries. She is inconsolable. Kaysen notes that although everyone at McLean is affected by sickness, Polly is the only patient trapped forever by the consequences of her illness.
Daisy - A patient who spends the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas at the hospital each year. Daisy lets no one into her room, emerging only for laxatives and the whole roast chickens her father brings twice weekly. Lisa discovers that Daisy’s room is filled with the picked-over carcasses of the chickens. Daisy leaves the hospital to live in an apartment her father has purchased for her. The girls later learn that Daisy committed suicide on her birthday.
Cynthia - A severe depressive on Kaysen’s ward. Cynthia undergoes months of electroshock therapy. The effects of the shock treatments change Cynthia’s personality, leaving her totally unable to assert herself. Cynthia is close to Polly.
Wade - Georgina’s boyfriend and a patient at McLean hospital. Wade is prone to violent outbursts, requiring several orderlies to subdue him. Wade fascinates the girls with stories of his father’s exploits as a CIA agent, including his associations with notorious figures from the Watergate scandal. Wade’s fits of uncontrollable rage ultimately land him in the maximum-security ward.
Lisa Cody - A patient who becomes fast friends with Lisa, only to be cruelly rejected. Diagnosed, like Lisa, as a sociopath, Lisa Cody emulates Lisa’s behavior. Feeling that her position among the girls is threatened, Lisa turns against her, and Lisa Cody leaves the hospital. Returning from an escape to Boston one day, Lisa tells the other girls that Lisa Cody has become a “real” junkie.
Torrey - A methamphetamine-addicted patient from Mexico. Torrey’s parents, embarrassed by their daughter’s condition, arrive to retrieve her after a short time. Lisa plans to help Torrey escape, but Valerie halts Lisa’s plan.
Alice Calais - A troubled patient who pronounces her last name “callous.” Alice’s mental breakdown results in her transfer to the maximum-security ward. Alice’s appearance and the frightening atmosphere of the ward appall the girls when they visit.
Valerie - The head nurse on Kaysen’s ward. The girls like and respect Valerie for her fairness and willingness to speak up on their behalf.
Melvin - Kaysen’s therapist. Impressed by Kaysen’s intelligence, Melvin begins an advanced program of analysis with her. Kaysen finds the experience unconvincing and discovers that she was Melvin’s first analysis patient.
Mrs. McWeeney - The evening nurse on Kaysen’s ward. Mrs. McWeeney hails from the old school. Her old-fashioned uniform and values alienate the girls.
Dr. Wick - An older female psychiatrist on the hospital staff. Dr. Wick is from Africa and is entirely unfamiliar with the American youth culture of her patients. Vulgarity and frank discussion of sex embarrass Dr. Wick, whose efforts at treatment are not necessarily effective.
James Watson - Nobel Prize–winning friend of Kaysen’s family. Beloved by Kaysen for his unpredictable behavior, he visits Kaysen and offers to help her escape. She turns him down in the belief that she should continue treatment.
Kaysen’s Husband - Introduced to Kaysen prior to her hospitalization, he stays in touch with her throughout her time at McLean. His marriage proposal allows Kaysen to leave the hospital. They are married only a short time.
The English Teacher - Kaysen’s high school teacher and lover. He takes her to the Frick Museum in New York, where she first sees the Vermeer painting titled Girl, Interrupted at Her Music. Their affair is short-lived.
The Diagnosing Doctor - The psychiatrist who encourages Kaysen to enter McLean Hospital. He diagnoses her in a mere twenty minutes. Kaysen believes that his swift diagnosis expresses the psychiatrist’s misguided effort to save her from the wayward youth culture he disdains and cannot understand.
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