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"Richie has never been so still, so silent. His mouth frozen open. His eyes wide and black. He is so balanced on his toes, and he could be made of stone. But every part of Pop moves: his hands as he speaks; his shoulders folding forward as softly as a flower wilting at the hottest part of the day. I've never seen them do that. His face, all the lines of his face, sliding against each other like the fault lines of the great fractured earth. What undergirds it: pain. The sledgehammer fallen." (253)

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" Richie stretches his hands over his head. That's your mamma? he ask. No, I say and I don't explain, even when Micheal pull her from the car and they both on they knees in the grass on the side of the station, and she's vomiting so hard her back curves like an angry cat's" ( 178)

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"I don’t want to hear no more of the story. I shake my head. I don’t want him talking to Pop, asking him about that time. Pop has never told me the story of what happened to Richie when he ran. Every time I ask about it, he changes the subject or asks me to help him with something in the yard. And I understand the sentiment when he looks away or walks off, expecting me to follow. I know what Pop’s saying: I don’t want to talk about this. It wounds me.” (181)

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"'Yes' she says, and then she toddles past me, unsteady on the dark ground. She faces the tree, nose up to the air. Head titled back to see. Her eyes Michael's, her nose Leonie's, the set of her shoulders Pop's, and the way she looks upward, like she is measuring the tree, all Mam. But something about the way she stands, the way she takes all the pieces of everybody and holds them together, is all her. Kayla.

'Go home,'" she says (284)

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"I think Given must have held me like that once, that once we breathed mouth to mouth and inhaled the same air. But another part of me wants to shake Jojo and Michaela awake, to lean down and yell so they startle and sit up so I don't have to see the way they turn to each other like plants following the sun across the sky. They are each other's light" (151)

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"Once, River told me about the ocean. He said: we got so much water where I'm from. It come down from the north in rivers. Pool in bayous. Rush out to the ocean, and that stretch to the ends of the earth that you can see. It changes colors, he said, like a little lizard. Sometimes stormy blue. Sometimes cool gray. In the early mornings, silver. You could look at that and know there's a God." (190)

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- Richie is the speaker
- Why Hermonie chose this passage:
- Last line especially
- what they chose to remember from their past when escaping Parchman
- good description of color
- River/Riv is Pop
- This passage is in italics
- Connection of water and River
- water is a reference to Richies home
- Relevance of water
- Memories in italics
- Colors - in natural world
- dynamics of natural world/landscape

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- speaker is Leonie--> has a lot of jealously for relationship between Jojo and Kayla/Michaela
- Changes the relationship that she has with her children
- Beautiful descriptions of the children's interactions--> plants, light
- really pretty passage
- a lot of metaphorical language about relationships and memories that engages with the landscape
- opposition of youth and innocent with something else
- the children have this natural connection that she was part of

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JoJo has discovered is gift with the supernatural, Kayla has the power to send them home
- Kayla is the center of her family- she holds power although she is so young
- " go home"= yes, going home means yes- an affirmation
-Kayla is not even aware of the power she has
- " they smile with something... like.. like" not quite these things but hinting at it
- It speaks to the book itself and how it is structured, that there are many different voices but that it would not be the same without one ( kayla)

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Last section is powerful

Jojo’s now developed supernatural power

Kayla is the one with the true supernatural power to send the ghost home

She is the youngest

Different perspectives together form Kayla

She’s a mosaic of everyone in her family

Importance of children and connection to the after life

Go home= yes

This is in italics, this could be the ghost affirming

Importance of singing

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Points out between the past and future and how trauma has shaped the whole family
- How trauma has shaped Pop's life therefore changing his relationship with JoJo
- This moment that JoJo has with richie is very important to richie
- A lot of shared experience that does not need to be said- it is felt and imbedded in where they are- a lot of sensory input
- a large connection to past and present- how characters are trying to reconstruct their past- as well as what they see and what they do not see

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- short but full of a lot of good info
- demonstrates relationship between Jojo and Leonie
- generally see Leonie resenting children
- first time seeing jojo's side of leonies resent
- jojo feels no maternal bond with mom, doesn't feel like he even needs to explain this
- Kayla is really scared and asks to be held by brother
- Shows big disconnect between mother, no mother present
- describing her as an angry cat when she is throwing up, feels no connection or bond or feelings for seeing her go through this
- characterization of her as a cat - sort of evil or unknown, sometimes affectionate sometimes they will scratch you, have nine-lives, image clear of what a cat look likes when it curves it back
- natural world again used here to intertwine with their life
- no necessarily resentment, just a whole part of their connection that has been shaped by trauma
- cats do what they want

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The physical pain Richie feels
- the different types of pain
- inflicted pain that is persevered in Richie's mind
- but it is not just Richie's pain but Pop's as well
- The pain that pop feels and how it impacts his family
- How Richie is still and Pop is not
- How this setting has been seen before- a repeating of history in that space
- The lines of the face- growing with age and pain
- layering history- a repeating
-- there is death and impending death- but also presence of someone's life and that someone is there
- How this is not something new and has been done before

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- Jojo hearing the story of Richies death, by Richies request
- Story told by River
- Richies first showcase of pain in regards to his relationship with River
- Transformation from his love for River vs the pain River has caused him
- Emotional vs Physical pain
- Shows the sacrifices that had to be made at Parchman
- River didn't want Richie to die in a worse way that he did
- River killed Richie in a protective way
- If River had not killed Richie, he would've had a torturous death
- The pain of Richie's death at the hands of River is a pain that has carried on.