116 pages • 3 hours read
Yaa GyasiHomegoing
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
In Homegoing, family and parenthood are central themes. How do slavery and segregation impact the ability of parents in the novel to care and provide for their children?
Inherited trauma follows each generation in Homegoing. What are some of the ways that characters heal the generational trauma they inherit from their parents and ancestors?
Choose a character in the text and examine how they are limited or held back by dominant gender roles of their time. Does the intersection of gender and race make matters more difficult for that character?
