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- "Men are all dogs (...) If you could see their face after they've had their fun with you, you would know better."
- "You don't seem to like men very much, Maimouna said, and yet you are helping them with the strike... I wonder why..." Sometimes, before going to sleep, Penda had asked herself the same question. "Why did I ever get myself involved in this business? I've got nothing to gain from it..." But she always fell asleep before finding the answer.
Penda's Reputation
Internal Conflict
- "Do you think I am going to let myself be served by a whore?"
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- “‘They say that the only thing that was never on top of her was the railroad. I just wondered how…?’
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Penda's Role
Motivation of the Women, in the village and in the women's march
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Penda's Role in the Strike
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- Penda is appointed by the men as the ration distributer for the strike.
- She is the only woman to work with the strike committee.
- She serves as Liaison for the strike comittee to the women.
- She worked with "the apprentices" to rob Aziz's store and get rice.
- She announces and leads the march of the women to Dakar.
- She wants to create a comittee of the women
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Penda and Bakayoko
- “ ‘There are great many ways of prostituting yourself, you know. There are those who do it because they are forced to – Alioune, Deune, Idrissa and myself all prostitute out work and our abilities to men who have no respect for us. And then there are others who sell themselves morally…’ ”
- "He might have made her his second wife, and now he found himself wondering about the nature of the feelings that had drawn him to this girl. Could it have been he fact that she, like himself, was a traveler from one station to another?"
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