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When the Village Sleeps By: Sindiwe Magona, Characters: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Good:
      - Bad:
        
        Point: Advantage was taken at people's funerals in order to feast.
        Quotes:
        "Funerals were opportunities for feasting." Ch.1, p.3.
        "Now, what host would dare appear graceless before the ancestors and God, and demand an invitation card?" Ch. 1, p. 4.
        "... the boys went funeralling." ch. 1 p. 4
        "They were veritable funerongers." ch. 1, p. 4.
  - - - Point: Women were hindered from certain privileges.
        Quotes:
        "Because she was a girl, Busisiwe was not allowed the same privileges." ch. 1 p.4.
        "Women could go to the funerals ..."
        "It would fall on them to clean, scrape and cook the veggies- a job tedious and back- breaking, with absolutely no reward." ch.1, p.4.
  - - - Ch. 1, Page 3
        Quote: "... people like that committed suicide, her mother once told her..."
        Meaning: shows that, knowing Busisiwe hated her life, her mother took no interest as long as she didn't hate her life to the point of suicide. Use of the first name also shows the disconnect between daughter and mother?