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Consider how the author addresses the theme throughout the text. Reference (cite) specific instances in which Coates gives examples of the impact of slavery.

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Consider how the author addresses the theme throughout the text. Reference (cite) specific instances in which Coates gives examples of the significance of memory.

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Hiram develops over the course of the text. Consider how he matures, how his perspective (innocence) are challenged and shaped.

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Consider how the author addresses the theme throughout the text. Reference (cite) specific instances in which Coates gives examples of the meaning and significance of family. What are the consequences of broken families.

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Consider how the author addresses the theme throughout the text. Reference (cite) specific instances in which Coates gives examples of the knowledge of the enslaved. Ideas of Power.

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Argue whether Magic Realism is an effective way to highlight the themes and central ideas of The Water Dancer. How do fiction and history work to convey ideas.

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Following our mini lesson on thematic statements. You are and your classmates will write thematic statements that capture the central ideas Coates makes in The Water Dancer.

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Events in one's life gradually change their view and make their identity acceptable to themselves.

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The task was put into a position that they should not have been in. For example when Old man slept with his sons wife , yes it was wrong but it wouldnt have happened if the quality didnt put the tasked in those positions ¨But the Task does not bargain, does not compromise, it devours¨(Coates 133). JVMK

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Memory is the gateway to many of your future experiences and even connects it to the past ones. For example when he uses conduction and uses his memory.

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Memory plays a huge part in the book. Cause Hiram can remember anything he sees and also how he was able to remember his mother.

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The theme memory it dwells heavily on the theme of memory. Hiram possesses an unusual power, that of Conduction and he can move to a different location without traveling the distance between the two places. He is slow to understand and develop his gift, but he realizes right away that it is fueled by memory. While he is conducting, he sees his mother, his aunt, his grandmother, and dozens of other faces from his past.

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Water is the main piece in the book. It represents the importance of memory.Memory connects people to the things around them.¨But knowing now the awesome power of memory¨(Coates 3).

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When Coates was fighting for Thena and Sophia to get free and to get them from the "coffin". Many people end up getting hurt from broken families and not being with their people.

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the author shows a part in the novel how devastating family separation is. How devastation can not only affect the mind but a person's daily needs

-London Moss not done yet

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"I knew that the elders had not lied, that there really was a homeplace of our own, a life beyond the task, where every moment is as daybreak over mountains. And so great was this freedom that i became aware of a nagging weight that now proposed to follow me into the forever" it shows that when he was seeing the water he had talked how it felt more like the light towards freedom, meaning they experience no power and he says theirs more to them then the task

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Family isn't always made up of people with our flesh and blood

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Family isn't always made up of people with our flesh and blood

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PSJD

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Slavery causes one to lose their identity through the effects of dehumanization on the mind and body. "that a man could feel his violation of natural" (pg 136). Corrosion of the mind and body causes one to become numb.

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Corrosion of mind (due to slavery/oppression) causes one to be numb to ...

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The idea to be tasked physically and mentally to be selfless can create self vulnerability.

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Let's clarify.