Novel
Study: Seedfolks
Kim,
Ana, Wendell follow-up
By deciding to plant lima
beans in her neighborhood’s vacant lot full of garbage, what do you think Kim
hopes to show her late Vietnamese father?
What’s your opinion of this act?
Ana, a Romanian immigrant,
one of the original tenants in building, talks about the many different
ethnicities that have come and gone and of the many changes that have taken
place over the years in the neighborhood.
What’s your opinion of her watchful eye over the community, her
suspiciousness of others and of the realization she made?
After his son was shot and
his wife was involved in a car accident, what does Wendell (former Kentucky
farmer turned school caretaker) come to realize and do? What’s your opinion of the idea that it was a
child having a positive effect on an adult in this situation?
