Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
1) Examine the two very different fates of the stepsisters, Effia and Esi, describing relevant aspects of their family backgrounds and the events that led to their traumatic experiences with the slave trade.
2) What is the relationship between their different traumatic experiences with slavery and the novel’s treatment of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic? (Suggestion: A body paragraph can be devoted to the two parts of the question.)