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| Plot Summary of On The Path With Heart, In Africa with Habitat for Humanity International |
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"This is the story of a 58 year-old widow's adventures over the five years she spent in Africa, as the low-cost housing mission, Habitat for Humanity International's Africa/Middle East correspondent. Grey finds stories everywhere; among leprosy survivors in Uganda who are becoming part of a community for the first time in years, with orphan head of households in Burundi who are beginning life over after a brutal civil war, and on the road in Botswana when her truck breaks down. Then there is the one about the mother-in-law who climbs into bed with her one night in Uganda.
Africans running Habitat programs in their communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya teach Grey about their culture, she finds a lot in common with a South African widow during the night she spends inside a former black township and in Kenya she learns that it's malaria that kills most Africans and elephants that African women fear most. What did Grey fear most in Africa? "Anything on four wheels."
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, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- Black African
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Big/small town?
- small town
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 60's-90's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Black Africa
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- gentle
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
If this is a kid's book:
- Age 16-Adult
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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