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Bena is one of Binti’s older brothers. He’s an angry young man and often spouts off about how evil the Khoush are—even though he’s never really known a Khoush person. Binti believes that while Bena justified in being angry about how the Khoush treat the Himba, he also knows nothing about the Khoush.
Bena Quotes in Binti
The Binti quotes below are all either spoken by Bena or refer to Bena. 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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Binti Quotes
I frowned at it. Realizing something. It spoke like one of my brothers, Bena. I was born only three years after him yet we’d never been very close. He was angry and always speaking out about the way my people were maltreated by the Khoush majority despite the fact that they needed us and our astrolabes to survive. He was always calling them evil, though he’d never traveled to a Khoush country or known a Khoush. His anger was rightful, but all that he said was from what he didn’t truly know.
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As Okwu nastily insults Binti and humanity more generally over the course of their conversation, she comes to realize that Okwu doesn’t know much about people. It’s especially significant that Binti comes to think of Okwu as being like her brother Bena. The fact that Binti can draw comparisons between a Meduse and her brother (even though she and her brother aren’t close) suggests that she’s already starting to humanize the Meduse. They’re now living, human-like beings in Binti’s mind, rather than just dangerous killers. And just like people, they’re prone to speaking about a group without truly knowing what Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis
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Bena Character Timeline in Binti
The timeline below shows where the character Bena appears in Binti. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...suggests she’s evil. Binti frowns. She thinks that Okwu sounds a lot like her brother Bena, who speaks often about how horrible Khoush people are—even though he doesn’t know any Khoush...
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