Catherine Pigott Chicken Hips Analysis

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Question #1: “Chicken Hips” by Catherine Pigott In the beginning Pigott felt unusual. But when time passes, she starts to observe their ideas to believing them herself. She feels open-minded. Pigott begins to see European tourists as “strange and skeletal….devoid of shape and substance.” She started to see the way of beauty and she completely transformed herself into a Gambian women. Question #1: “Chicken Hips” by Catherine Pigott In the beginning Pigott felt unusual. But when time passes, she starts to observe their ideas to believing them herself. She feels open-minded. Pigott begins to see European tourists as “strange and skeletal….devoid of shape and substance.” She started to see the way of beauty and she completely transformed

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