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The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm

Book by Nancy Farmer. Power point by Stephen Gruenke. The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm. What’s it about?.

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The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm

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  1. Book by Nancy Farmer. Power point by Stephen Gruenke. The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm

  2. What’s it about? • The book is about three children that run away from home. Their father is Zimbabwe’s chief of security in the year 2194. In this futuristic city, there is a dreadful lower ghetto. This neighborhood is a grotto toxic waste. The inhabitants have become disfigured and the lucky have gained super powers. Three detectives/bounty hunters from this place to bring back their children.

  3. Who are the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm? • The three detectives are based off of three priest guardians of an actual Shona temple inside a sacred cave. • The Ear has super hearing and a really big ear. The arm has a long stretchy arm with (literally) sticky fingers and is physically affected by others emotions. The Eye has super vision.

  4. Zimbabwe fun (and sort of sad) facts • About 13 million people live in Zimbabwe. • 25% of the population has AIDS. • Life expectancy is 36 • Birth rate is 3.5 for women. • About 10% of all people in Zimbabwe can read.

  5. What is this future world like? • The world these children are growing up in is absolutely bizarre. There are mutant talking blue monkeys sold on the black market, zombielike crowds of muggers that stalk the streets, robotic animals and butlers, and Immense landing platforms for flying cars.

  6. Why do the children run away? • The children run away because they are tired of being sheltered from the rest of the world and are tired of their grouchy father.

  7. rescources • http://goafrica.about.com/library/bl.mapfacts.zimbabwe.htm

  8. The END

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