The Girl with the Louding Voice

by

Abi Daré

Iya is a poor, sickly woman living in Agan village. Iya is the Yoruba name for “old woman,” and Adunni doesn’t know Iya’s real name. Mama would bring Iya food when she was still alive. Adunni goes to Iya for help after she needs to escape to avoid the consequences of being blamed for Khadija’s death, and Iya puts Adunni in contact with her brother, Kola. Even though Iya is sincerely trying to be helpful, Kola ends up tricking Adunni into indentured servitude.

Iya Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice

The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Iya or refer to Iya. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 21 Quotes

I am leaving Ikati. This is what I been wanting all my life, to leave this place and see what the world outside is looking like, but not like this. Not with a bad name following me. Not like a person that the whole village is looking for because they think she have kill a woman. Not with one half of my heart with Kayus and the other half with Khadija. I hang my head down, feeling a thick, heavy cloth as it is covering me. The thick cloth of shame, of sorrow, of heart pain.

Related Characters: Adunni (speaker), Khadija, Kayus, Kola, Iya
Page Number: 130
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 23 Quotes

When she come out, she draw deep breath and her chest, wide like blackboard, is climbing up and down, up and down. It is as if this woman is using her nostrils to be collecting all the heating from the outside and making us to be catching cold. I am standing beside Mr. Kola, and his body is shaking like my own. Even the trees in the compound, the yellow, pink, blue flowers in the long flowerpot, all of them too are shaking.

Related Characters: Adunni (speaker), Big Madam (Florence Adeoti), Khadija, Mama (Idowu), Kola, Iya
Related Symbols: Houses
Page Number: 144
Explanation and Analysis:
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Iya Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice

The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Iya or refer to Iya. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Education, Empowerment, and Self-Worth Theme Icon
).
Chapter 21 Quotes

I am leaving Ikati. This is what I been wanting all my life, to leave this place and see what the world outside is looking like, but not like this. Not with a bad name following me. Not like a person that the whole village is looking for because they think she have kill a woman. Not with one half of my heart with Kayus and the other half with Khadija. I hang my head down, feeling a thick, heavy cloth as it is covering me. The thick cloth of shame, of sorrow, of heart pain.

Related Characters: Adunni (speaker), Khadija, Kayus, Kola, Iya
Page Number: 130
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 23 Quotes

When she come out, she draw deep breath and her chest, wide like blackboard, is climbing up and down, up and down. It is as if this woman is using her nostrils to be collecting all the heating from the outside and making us to be catching cold. I am standing beside Mr. Kola, and his body is shaking like my own. Even the trees in the compound, the yellow, pink, blue flowers in the long flowerpot, all of them too are shaking.

Related Characters: Adunni (speaker), Big Madam (Florence Adeoti), Khadija, Mama (Idowu), Kola, Iya
Related Symbols: Houses
Page Number: 144
Explanation and Analysis: