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"So many of those roads dead-ended into the woods. That's how life works downy there a dead end... What always struck me about black folks was every Sunday morning , They'd get dressed up so clean for church I wouldn't even recognize them. I liked that. (pg.61) To me this quote makes me think about purpose in life. The blacks were seen as a nobody like if they had no future ahead of them to others. Roads to success is a term often used but seeing as they used 'dead ending roads'' They are saying that the blacks had no road to follow .. Pointless . One thing did actually give them hope that they were just like everyone else and that was church on Sunday morning.

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I was always hearing about somebody found hanged or floating in the wharf” (p. 58).

This quote is important to me because blacks didn't get as much respect and they were getting treated unfairly.

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" I was always worried that Tateh's gun would go off and accidently kill him while he was cleaning it. Although I was afraid of him, I didn't want anything to happen to him." Pg. 59
I think my quote it's important because he cares about Tateh's even though he afraid and scared of what he did to him.

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Share the important passage you selected from Chapter 7 "Sam". Include a page number and an explanation.

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"you're stupid. you're nothing but a fool. you're unredeemed before god."
pg.62

I think this is important because it tells me how they were treated for just showing disinterest in the bible to Tateh.

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''He cleaned  that gun more than he cleaned his own trousers''.

I feel like this is important because he never trust no body and he is very over protective

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" My brother Sam, he couldn't take it and ran off as soon as he got big enough" Pg 61

I think this part is important because he could've changed her life somehow.

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the color of water is blue,green, and sometimes clear

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the color of water is blue,green, and sometimes clear

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" I asked her what happened, and she said, " Stay out of our lives." ". I think it is important because that shows some more background on her life.

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" I was always worried that tateh's gun would go off and accidentally kill him while he was cleaning it". (pg.59)

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''It was a new brand. BC powder. It cost twenty-five cents and it came in a little blue-and-white packet. Folks said it made feel better and pepped them up. Of course it had cocaine in it back then,"
I think its important because it gives us a good look at the medical place they were in at the time.

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"But what always struck me about black folks was that every Sunday they'd get dressed up so clean for church I wouldn't recognize them. I liked that."
pg 61
This is a important quote because as Ruth said even though they had a lot of money they were miserable, money doesn't buy happiness.

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He'd make Sam sit in the corner for hours and read Hebrew. He never showed any love towards his son." Pg. #62
This passage is important to the book because it shows how Sam was treated. This passage reveals a lot about Sam and his family. It shows that Sam was never treated with much  love. His father and him didn't have a very good relationship like other kids now and days do with their fathers.  They never connected, communicated , or even showed any good emotions towards one another. This quote reveals how Sam and his father weren't close, and how strictly he was treated.

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" i was sitting behind the counter of the store one afternoon and a car full of men wearing white sheets drove past." i think this is important to the rest of the chapter because they talk about how people would always end up dead in the warf.

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"I liked to play dominoes with Sam when we were little, but as he got bigger, he had no time to play. Tateh worked Sam harder.." (62)
This is an important quote because it reflects the deep impact that Tateh caused between the siblings disconnecting them for his own personal gain.

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" I was always hearing about somebody found hanged or floating in the wharf." Pg;58

This is important to me because it shows the little respect that black people would get in these days. It also shows how the blacks had to live deep in fear. No one was there to prevent that.

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"He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him." (59)

I think this passage is important because it shows that Sam couldn't provide for himself as a young boy.

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" I wish some of these black kids today could see how the black folks in Suffolk lived then. Lord you wouldn't believe it." pg 60

I feel this important for several reasons because it shows the amount of change that happened and the differences Ruth had to deal with.

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"We hated those sessions. Tateh had no patience, and he'd often stop you in the middle of your verse to scold or slap you if you showed disinterest in the bible" (pg. 62)

This quote show how strict Tateh was to his child about the bible. If one of his child show to be disinterested, then he slap them or scold them.

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"The book of Ecclesiastes was Tateh's  favorite. "I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous  and the wicked; for there is a time for every purpose and every work." That's Ecclesiastes. i still know those verses, but i learned them out of... not out love for god but just out of...what? ... i don't know. Duty. my father was a rabbi, right? shouldn't his kids know the old testament? we hated those sessions . Tateh had no patience, and he'd often stop you in the middle of your verse to scold or slap you if you showed disinterest in the bible."  PG.61&62

I think that this piece is important because it shows how important the book and god is to Ruth's father.

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" I called one of my aunts to ask for help and she said, 'Your brother died in the war'. I asked what happened, and she said, 'Stay out of our lives. You've been out, Stay out.' And she hung up on me, so there was nothing I could do for Sam but pray for him"  Pg.63

I chose this one because the way her aunt spoke to her was just rude, I get that she was hurt and broken that Sam died but she shouldn't have spoken to her like that, but beside that, the way things ended between them, she didn't get to say goodbye or that she loved him and that's painful. She never saw him again didn't hear from him either and then poof he was gone.

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"I wish some of these black kids today could see how the black folks in Suffolk lived then. Lord you wouldn't believe it. Shacks with no running water, no foundations, no bathrooms, outhouses. No paved roads, no electricity." Pg.60

I think that this piece is important because it shows how much has changed since Ruth was a little girl. Her children grew up so much more differently then she did.

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"I asked her what happen and she said ," stay out of our lives. You've been out. Stay out."
(63)
I think this part is important because this is a good example on how their  family wasn't close. They didn't really seem to see each others effort into looking for each other nor there's no communication or love between Ruth and the family. Everyone seemed to be so distant.

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"I asked what happened, and she said, 'stay out of our life. You've been out. Stay out'" (63).

I think this part is important because it shows that their any connection, communication, love between Ruth and their family.

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"The book of Ecclesiastes was Tateh's favorite. 'I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time for every purpose and every work" (61).

I think this part is important because Ruth quotes a line from her father's favorite section of the Old Testament that he would make she and her brother recite lines from. It seems ironic that her father preached 'God shall judge the...wicked' as if he had no awareness of his own wicked deeds (sexually abusing his own daughter).

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" he'd make Sam sit in the corner for hours and read hebrew , he never showed any love towards his son" (61).

I think this is a important part to actually sit there and think about because most of this story is talking about how there family wasn't always so close and barley loved each other so to read these two sentences really opens my eyes more to this story helping see that not everyone was treated the same or loved as equally.