Exercise $2$: Main Ideas for Part $3$

Write short answers and line number$($s$)$ where you found the answer.

What major traumatic event happened to Jamila's family in Portland and caused them to stay in Portland and put down roots?

How did Ayan die? $q,$ Line $12$

Ayan died from a car accident.

$3.$ When you look at a map of the United States, the names of places are Anglicized. According to the author, who occupied $($lived$)$ on the land that is now America before the European settlers came?

$4.$ What happened thirty years after the British and Italians were ousted from Somalia?

Exercise $3$: Looking at Deeper Meaning

Use your wisdom, world knowledge and life experience to answer the questions below.

Re$-$read lines $11-34.$ Pay attention to all the references Jamila Osman makes to "maps."

$($line $20-1)$ "Maps are a polite fiction. They never tell the whole story." What does she mean by this sentence? $q,$

$q,$

The title of this book is A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family and the Meaning of Home.

In line $32$ Jamila Osman says, "A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell themselves."

What does this mean to you? Can you relate to what she is saying? Explain.