Second Class Citizen Lesson Plan

Discuss the symbolic implications of Adah breastfeeding.

Students should make the connection that Adah deciding to breastfeed Dada comes at the same time that she decides she must start writing her story. In the same way she feels compelled to breastfeed, she also feels compelled to write. In her writing, in her ability to express herself creatively, she feels a great catharsis, letting out all she has been holding inside. She says to her friend Bill:

“‘I felt so fulfilled when I finished it, just as if I had just made another baby,’ she had told Bill, and he had replied: ‘But that is how writers feel. Their work is their brainchild. This is your brainchild; you are...