Question

While visiting Howard University, Zuri reflects on the girls who have attended before her: "Maybe they couldn't go back to their
old hoods because they've grown too big, too tall. Not in size, but in... experience. In...feeling. I wonder how I'll change, too" (p.
142)
Make sure to address the following items in your response:
1. What does it mean to grow in the way that Zuri describes?
2. How do you see Zuri grow and change over the course of the novel?
3. Do you think that Zuri might grow too "big" for her hood in Bushwick someday?

Answer 1

Growing up, as Zuri describes it, means becoming more intelligent. In that case, Zuri will grow and change throughout the novel, because the university will make her smarter. This will make her too great for the neighborhood because she will have thoughts and knowledge that go beyond the physical environment she knows.

We can arrive at this answer because:

• Zuri is referring to the amount of knowledge a university can provide to its students.

• She realizes it is possible to acquire so much knowledge at the university, that it is possible to make someone grow in intelligence, concepts, perceptions, among others.

• She hopes to have that kind of growth, which she knows the academic environment can provide and is capable of taking to places beyond where she lives.

Based on this, we can see that Zuri is highlighting the importance of education and how it is a modifying and edifying element of the human being.

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