1. What is the FRAME of the essay?
The frame of the essay is the author starts out in America were the original owner of a T-Shirt lives, and she ends up in Africa where the new owner of the T-Shirt lives. It's kind of like the story starts out at point A, where for all Susie Bayer and any other American who donates their clothes know is that when you donate your clothes it goes to some one in Africa who really needs it.Then the story ends at Point B, where the clothes are now in Africa, however the process of it getting to someone who really needs it is very complicated and not as simple as anyone who doesn't have insight would think.
2. What is the author doing in the intro?
In the intro the author is summerizes what happens to the clothes that we donate. The author summerizes in a way that very logical thinking, like the clothes goes to Africa to someone who needs it, However the intro also sets the reader up to understand that there is more to it than clothes leaving America and going to someone in Africa who needs it.
3. What is the main idea?
The main idea is that we as Americans donate clothes that we no longer want or feel as being useless, but the majority of us don't understand what goes on behind the scenes when it comes to where the clothes go.
4. List 3 interview questions that aren't stated directly?
a) Susie Bayer bought a T-Shirt for her workouts with the personal trainer who comes regularly to her apartment....
b) She alway goes to the same vendors, whose merchandise and prices are to her liking.
c) She bloodied another woman's nose in a scuffle over a bale of Canadian cotton skirts.
5. List 3 Research facts.
a) "maungu" is a term used in East, Central, and South Africa that means "person of foreign descent".
b) About 45 percent of the clothes that Americans donate is destined for sub-Saharan Africa.
c) The clothes that are donated to Africa is basically killing the African Textile companys. As clothes are donated to Africa they are sold by merchants for cheap witch undercuts the African Textile companys and causes them to lose profits.
