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In this quotation, Abena’s father uses seeds as a symbol for his relationship to his children. Seeds are a symbol of life, growth, and wealth - after all, people need seeds to grow food and sustain themselves. The seeds he holds in his hand might represent his connection to his children, then, as they are an example of growth that comes from him. In his anger at Abena for daring to go to the Asante king, he physically crushes the seeds into an unusable “powder” - powder that can never be used to grow. Instead, the powder escapes from James’ hand, perhaps symbolizing that Abena, who is considered “worthless” as an older, unmarried lady, will also escape from his hand. 

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“Hearing the words Asante king,” her father clenched his fists, crushing the seeds in his hands to a fine powder that slipped through the small spaces between his fingers” (134). 

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In this quotation it symbolizes Effia's black stone pendant that was passed generations down by each family. The black stone is passed down to Yaw as he goes to visit is mother for the truth on his scar. The black stone represents how Effia's mother Maame gave Effia the black stone and later as the generations grew, it was getting passed down everytime. 

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"His mother pulled Effia's necklace from her neck then held it out to yaw. It glowed back in her hand. He touched it, felt the smoothness of it." (Gyasi 241)

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In this quote esi had lost her pendant her mother had given her and effia. Which connects to the family line.This black stone pendant is a symbol that runs in the generation of the family because it represents each story of every single family member and what they went through.

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"No,my stone! esi shouted remembering the golden black stone her mother had given her"

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In this quotation, Tom asked Margaret to bring Ness to the changing room and after Ness takes off her clothes, They see all her back scars. The scars on Ness's back symbolizes how she would get whooped by her slave master. The scars were alarming to them as they saw her scars were bleeding and all over her body. Ness body was in a real terrier as her face is pretty but her body is full of scars symbolizing pain and a torcher. 

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"Margaret rushed into the back room, and left in search of field, clothes, and Ness stood in the center of that room, running her hands along her body, reveling in her ugly nakedness. She knew it was the intricate scars on her bare shoulders that had alarmed them all, but the scars weren't just there." (Gyasi 73-74)

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Sonny's relationship with drugs is tied to his struggles with abandonment and disconnection. Drugs were a symbol that constantly replays in his chapter. He has been struggling his whole life, having multiple women, getting in and out of jail, and his fathers absence. Drugs became his way to numb his feelings and escape his reality, even though they cause more problems in the future. 

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“In truth, he couldn’t remember finishing one year in any place, so much had he skipped school, moved around, gotten kicked out” (Gyasi 249)

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In this quote, the scars can symbolize both the trauma and resilience of the characters. They represent the physical and emotional wounds caused by slavery and colonialism, marking the lasting impact of these systems. However, scars also signify survival and healing, showing that despite past suffering, characters continue to rebuild their lives and relationships.

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"In a month, once the wounds of both their backs have hardened to scars, they finally consummate to their marriage" (Gyasis 81).

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Scars are a motif throughout the story because they represent pain and the past. Here Ness's scars are a symbol that physically represent the pain and hardships she's experienced as a slave. They also hold a representation of her past because these abysmal events are like a visual presentation of her past and the hurt and pain that they hold. 

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"They licked the top of her buttocks before trailing away into Ness's skin was no longer skin really, more like the ghost of her past made seeable, physical (Gyasi 74)".

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In this quotation, Yaw's scar is used as a symbol of his childhood and mother. He always resented his scar because It never gave him any benefits in life. He also resented his mother for giving him that scar but when he found out why she did it his anger started to die out. He never knew what his mother went through and when he did find out his empathy allowed him to let go of his anger and began healing. 

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"In other ways, the map of Yaw's scarred skin had led him nowhere. He had not married. He would not lead. Edweso had come with him. Yaw did not touch his scar. Instead he set his book down carefully and reminded himself to smile. He said, "I was only a baby. All I know is what I've heard" (Gyasi 227)

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In homegoing the author uses the 7 yams to represent each generation of Cobbe's family. He states that "each loss was a blow to his family", to represent how each generation would soon be lost as new ones are born, as we dive deeper in the book. The yams also symbolized as a source of money, because Cobbe depended on the yams to feed his family.

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"Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss as a blow to his family" (Gyasis 3).

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In this quote, Akua sleep walks and ends up setting her hut on fire, putting her and her children in danger. Fire in this quote is rather used as a symbol to represent peace rather than something abysmal. Akua legitimately becoming the firewoman may show her overcoming her reoccurring dreams that brung her discomfort.

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"Akua had the urge to hold them, and she reached out her hands to them. Her hands caught fire, but she touched them still - She felt calm, happy even, that the firewoman did not protest" (197)

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The family tree, shows 7 generations in the beginning, these are the 7 generations we see in the book and follow. Each yam is see as a valuable crop, each pov is important and valuable to see through pov of their family through history. The yams are meant to be good luck, but since 7 were lost, 7 generations were cursed. why 7 years of hurt and anguish

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In this quotation, Sonny is seen doing drugs to escape a sickness. This symbolizes that Sonny sees drugs as an escape from any issues he faces in life. If Sonny doesn't have drugs on the other hand, Sonny gets the feeling that he is futile and sees his drugs as "reassurance" showing that drugs is a symbol of reassurance and an escape to Sonny.

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"Sonny went into the bathroom and shot up, and instantly he could feel the sickness moving away from him" pg #258

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in this quotation,show how jazz music in harlem has negative and positive effects because it claims him down but it attracts the feelings of wanting to do drugs 

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"the junkies the jazz had gone together fed each other and now every time sonny heard a horn he wanted a hit"(257)

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In this quote, Cobbe loses the 7 yams in the fire which represents the 7 previous ancestors. After this quote he expresses how he feels this would continue to haunt him. It will haunt him because the yams represent good luck. The blow to his own family would represent how every yam that got destroyed would follow him and his posterity.

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" that most precious crop known far and wide to sustain families. Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss as a blow to his own family"(pg 1).             

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One Motif is drugs,Since sonny followed the woman home from the club, he discovered drugs, and wanted to feel the rush again buying more, therefore spending any money, and every dollar he has on drugs . It was his main motivation since he met that woman and started using drugs. Its all he could think of.  It also symbolizes obsession, since he ruined the relationship between and his family just for drugs

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”sonny gave the dealer every last dollar he had, and it bought him so little”(257).

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Maame had kept two pendants for a special occasion like "Esi Wedding day" which shows it had a deeper meaning to it. The black stone pendant may symbolize shared heritage for it was passed  down from Maame. Mamma was waiting for an opportunity to pass it down to Effiaas she had take very good care of the pendants.She had two but one of the pendants stayed and that was Effia's while Esi had buried her pendant to keep it safe so no one would take it from her.Before she was captured and taken away.

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"I've been keeping this for you, "Maame said. "I wanted to give it to you on your wedding day"(42).

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In this quote we see Esi obtain the necklace from Maame that she gave to Effia, which also connect's her and Effia have which is one of the main symbols that connect Esi and Effia's family line. This black stone is a symbol that every single generation of the family line has each with there own story it's one of the only pieces of evidence there is that show that the family still exist's. It represent's the family lineage itself.

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"Esi's mother grabbed Esi's hand.... so what Abronoma said was true" (42). 

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The black stone pendant represents family and generations because throughout the book it has been passed through the family tree starting with Effia and Esi. These pedants connect Maame's families with Cobbe and Big man because as seen here it shows the pendants is what revealed to Esi that she has a sister. The black pendants also hold the stories and generational traumas of the family. 

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"I wanted to give it to you on your wedding day. I-I left one for your sister. I left it with Baaba after I set the fire(Gyasi 42)". 

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in this quote it show how obsessive Akua is  because now she is going to keep questioning her religion. That isn't a good feeling because she may now wonder why they would burn a man alive.Its also scary to keep dreaming about fire too so she might be scared.

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“Its not that she said she said it's the fire i keep dreaming about fire” pg(178)

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In the quotation, the students use fire as a symbol to describe Yaws confidence, intelligence and talent at teaching. Usually fire would be a symbol of anger or hatred destruction  as shown in the previous chapters. But the chapter Yaww brung the whole new meaning to the symbol of fire by using the younger generation(the students Yaw teaches) to show how Yaw's intelligence and confidence can influence them in  positive ways. Aka the students spreading and telling tales like Yaw being made out of fire, to represent his confidence, intelligence and how it influences the younger generation, as Yaw has been teaching for years  and educating and inspiring generations of people(fire).

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"Peter cleared his throat and looked at the ground. "They say you were born of fire. he started. "That is why you are so smart. Because you were lit by fire."

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 In this Quotation, Esi sees that white man smiling while being  taken away as a symbol of endangerment. She also sees that smile as a mask for when she is about to endure evil or threats coming towards her. Seeing that smile come from any white man will now cause somewhat of trauma for Esi everytime.

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"Before Esi left, the one called Governor looked at her and smiled, but for the rest her life Esi would see a smile on a white face and remember the one the soldier gave her before taking her to his quarters"(Gyasi 49).  

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In this quotation, Sonny uses music as a symbol and how the singing can be a way for him to open up and express how he feels. Music is a symbol of joy, emotions, and culture. Here the music can represent his emotions towards Amani. When sonny said "he had felt something in himself open up" this can show that he feels that music can be a way to open up or express himself, and you can see this when Amani ask sonny what does he want and he response with "you". Sonny wanted Amani ever since "he saw her sing" showing that music is a part of him.

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"It wasn't her slow gait or the fact that her voice had reminded him of his favorite memory of his mother. It was that he had felt something in himself open up when she started singing that night and he wanted to capture just a little bit more of that feeling, keep it for himself"(254).

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In this quote we witness one of the only moments of the firewomen speaking. She questions Akua about where her children are which we know Akua herself ends up killing with fire. This symbol of fire or the firewomen represents Akua herself and the future destruction she will cause and what she will end up doing to her kids. The firewomen acted as sort of a foreshadowing of events of what Akua will do. 

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"She was growing, her hair a wild bush... the firewomen continued, and Akua shuddered." (187)

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The fire here shows that it represents negativity/bad luck/ misfortune and we can see that because since Effia was born of the fire one of the results of that is now Baaba no longer has milk. The fire in the chapter Effia is a significant motif of this because on this page it also touches on how the fire would haunt his children and his children's children showing the fire can also be a curse because throughout the book the fire is constantly brought back up in a negative and misfortunate way. 

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"The villagers say that the baby was born of the fire, that this was the reason Baaba had no milk(Gyasi 3)".

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In this quote, Ness was told that she wasn't fit for the house just because of her "ugly" scars. The scars in this quote represent a symbol of ugliness. Even though Ness was a pretty lady, her scars immediately disgusted everyone.

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"Ness stood in the corner of that room, running her hands along her body, reveling in her ugly nakedness. She knew it was the intricate scars that had alarmed them all" (74)

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In this quote, It can show how the fire can be express of how the woman feels after her kids vanish, it shows her pain as it says "firewomans sadness would send orange and red hints of blue squirming every tree". This shows how they used colors to express her pain also. This can also explain a little about the fire in a way because the fire is being addressed as a woman losing her kids and her holding her two babies to her heart which can be showing caring.

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“The fire was shaped like a woman holding two babies to her heart. The firewomen would carry these two little girls with her all the way to the woods of the inland and then the babies would vanish and the firewomans sadness would send orange and red hints of blue squirming every tree and every bush in sight”

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These quotes for show yaws scars are a physical reminder of the trauma that her went through as a baby and how people judge him based on the scars that are on his face

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" 'What's wrong with his face?' Yaw heard him ask as he approached the others, but before they could answer, Yaw was already walking away."    "his father, Asamoah the crippled man, had only been able to save one, the son. That crippled man had kept crazy woman from burning"                                  

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In this quote , Baaba walks back to find the  "Child of the nights fire"(Effia) and says that they will not talk about this again. The fire in the symbol represents how it was destructive and how effia could represents destruction because of how bad the fire was.

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When he came back into Baaba’s hut to find Effia, the child of the night’s fire, shrieking into the air, he looked at his wife and said, “We will never again speak of what happened today".(Gyasi 10)

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In this quotation, Sonny is addicted to drugs and always spending money on heroin. This symbolizes drugs as Sonny is always doing drugs as he would be in pain and stress. He deals with stress by taking drugs and uses his mother's money to buy drugs and shoot himself up in the streets or his home with the junkies. The symbol of drugs affects how Sonny shows himself off as a character and how he bases himself of from doing drugs and being a wild child.

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"Harlem and heroin. Heroin and Harlem. Sonny gave the dealer every last dollar he had, and it bought him so little. It brought him next to nothing." (Gyasi 258)

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In this quote, The law was passed that if African Americans didn't have papers stating that their owners released. Cops had no reason to not send them back to the South. The papers represent racism because only African Americans need to have it on them. Including kids and the system is so messed up that even if u did have papers your still at risk so people who did have papers fled to keep their families safe.                                                   

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"Mathison had made sure Jo's whole family had their free papers together, but he knew others with papers too, and even they had fled " (pg 124).

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In this quotation, Yaw's scars are seen as a symbol of fear and Yaw's hatred for his mother. I say this because, Yaw already has a resentment for his mother because of her past actions earlier in his childhood. And now adding on to that, people are spreading rumors about him tarnishing his already what appears to be abysmal reputation. 

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"They say your mother was fighting evil spirits from Asamando" #226

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This quote symbolizes drugs in the chapter sonny blues sonny started using drugs .Because of the atmosphere he live in and he made bad friends who influenced him to start using.Which makes sonny and his realationship with his brother "hate" because he doesn't wanna see his brother using drugs because you never know what might happen. he doesnt wanna have to get a phone call that something happens to his brother or worse he just wants the best for sonny.

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"He had been picked up, the evening before in a raid on an apartment downtown for peddling and using heroin"

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The dream could symbolize the fear in Akua and the anger deep in her. The recurring dream is like an infinite vortex of guilt that she has for what she did. Its a reminder of her actions. The dream is a symbol  of her guilt of her actions

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"Its the fire, i keep dreaming about fire” 178

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this quote represents bad luck" that the reason baaba had no milk" due to effia being boring in the fire she was viewed differently from other people in the villa and she was also treated very differently 

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"the village began to say that the baby was born of the fire that this was the reason baaba had no milk effia was nursed by cobbe second wife had just given birth to a son three months before"(3)

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In this quote, the mention of "Effia, the child born of the night fire," creates a connection between birth and destruction, symbolizing the dual nature of fire both a source of life and a force of trauma. The phrase "shrieking into the air" suggests that Effia’s birth could represent pain and chaos, evoking how fire can ignite both creation and devastation. The husband’s declaration, "we will never again speak of what happened today," reveals his desire to suppress the emotional and psychological burn of the events, much like how fire can be extinguished or ignored.

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"When he came back into Baaba's hut to find Effia, the child born of the night fire, shrieking into the air, he looked at his wife and said, "we will never again speak of what happened today" (Gyasis 3).

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In this quotation, It can show that sonny thinks that drugs can be a way to escape or not be controlled by anyone because when he said "no one was manipulating these bodies", and when he means bodies is people and that people are taking drugs in the dope house. Sonny seen that no one was in charges and that there was no rules, no one was taking control so in a way he prob felt like he can be free and also the other "bodies" are free. 

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"No one was manipulating these bodies in the hallway no one that sonny could see but he knew immediately that it was a dope house" (255).

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In this quotation, the yams symbolize each generation in Cobbe's bloodline. I say this because there are 7 generations in this bloodline. And throughout the novel, each generation goes through at least one negative life changing event in their lifetime. Showing that the yams burning is a sign of future demise and negativity for each generation.

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"Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss as a blow to his own family" (Effia 3)

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In this Quotation, Akua is constantly dreaming about this woman and this fire that is supposed to symbolize Akua Struggles internally. Those struggles are supposed to be the disconnection with the relationship with her mother feeling she does not belong. Also the Disconnection with her heritage in total 

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“In them, the firewoman raged against the loss of her children”(Gyasi 186).

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This quote represents Sonny indirectly stating how he is suffering. Even though people like his brother and parents want the best for him he continues to push them away and go a different route. A route he can never come back from. A road of drugs and he searches to find a fix to help him cope with the suffering he is going through.

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“No, there's no way not to suffer.But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it”(pg 143).

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this quote encapsulates themes of judgment and social statues , exclusion and social hierarchy 

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In this quote and across the book, yams represent a major source of food, and wealth. The loss of these yams were looked at as bad luck, because yams were a major source of luck and wealth. Cobbe stated that "This loss was a major blow to my family", which shows how bad the loss of the 7 yams affected him and his family. The 7 yams that were lost affected and gave bad luck to all 7 generations of his family in the book. 7 generations of pain and suffering.

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In this quote, the scars of Marjorie's grandmother symbolize that she was enslaved, and was whopped. Even though it was hard to see the scar since her grandmother skin became all wrinkled, the scar remained for the rest of her life, and it will be a traumatic memory that she will never forget to this day

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"Looking at her grandmother's hands now, it was almost impossible to distinguish scarred from wrinkled skin. The whole landscape of the woman's body had transformed into a ruin; the young woman had been toppled, leaving this;" (265)- Marjorie

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In this quotation, Ness is taken to the backroom to be changed and is reminded of her scars which is a symbol of her past and the physical suffering she went through as a slave. The scars traveling around her body is the significance of the many times she's been lashed and abused in her past. Her scars being "like another body" shows how she has so many scars that they are a part of her and is a permanent reminder of her past that she can never run away from.

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"Her scarred skin was like another body in and of itself, shaped like a man hugging her from behind with his arms hanging around her neck. They went up from her breasts, rounded the hills of her shoulders, and traveled the full, proud length of her back. "

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In this quote, Jojo's Ma Aku, talks about how kojo building these ships is bad juju. The boats, and water, although a symbol of hope, and exploration, are seen as a symbol of fear and pain for Ma Aku. The boats Kojo builds, represented as the journey how black people were transported on slave ships, and taken away from there homelands during the early slavery days. This shows how Ma Aku feels a bit conflicted as Kojo builds the boats. However, this also brings up Ma Aku's belief in bad juju, and her struggle with the past. And because Homegoing is set in multiple generations, we see how the effects from the past, are still being brought up today, and are mixing with the new generations. We also get a peak at Ma Aku's previous life. Having spoken twi, we can make an inference, and get an idea of where she was born, with Ghana and a slave compound being the two main options. 

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"He loved the look of those boats, loved that his hands helped build and maintain them, but Ma Aku always said it was bad juju, him and all the other freed Negroes working on ships. She said there was something evil about them building up the things that had brought them to America in the first place, the very things that had tried to drag them under."

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In this quote, we can see that they use "ocean, and water" as a motif where it explains a horrible history of Marcus's family ancestors. They went through enslavement by being captured from their villages, and got shipped to the Capes Castle by seas. They use "water" to represent slave ships.

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"When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships." (284)-Marcus

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H's scars represent, how society treats slaves/ free man/ colored. When H's scars are revealed, the people around him immediately label him as a slave, even though he is now a free man. It represents how H cannot forget the tramua he had faced during his sentence, and how its always physically apart of his identity even if he doesn't label as it. Identity is a big part of H himself, in the beginning of the chapter he protests how he is a free man and he can't be forced to work. However because of those specific whip scars on his body, he can't identify as a free man, because society doesn't recognize him with his own freedom.

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"H craned his neck trying to look at his back, but then he remembered and knew he didn't need to. It had been nearly twenty five years since the end of slavery, and free men were not supposed to have fresh scars on their backs, the evidence of a whip" (H 167)

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This piece of evidence shows and represents the history of Marcus' ancestors, and Black people or former slaves in general. In this quote, it talks about how black people were captured from their homeland and put on ships to go and be slaves in America. Them being put on ships or being on water represents enslavement.

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"When he was young his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships"(page 284)

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In this quote ness is being reminded of her scars and things she went through when she was a slave. this shows how these scars are really apart of her and will always stick with her no matter what

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"Her scarred skin was like another body in and of itself , shaped like a man hugging her from behind with his arms hanging around her neck. They went up from her breasts rounding the hills of her shoulders and travled the full proud length of her back"

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In this quote H is reminded of his scars, although slaves had been freed twenty five years ago working in the mines he still faced the violence of a slave as a con. When the first people he spoke to since being a free ex con were petrified by his scars and immediately looked down upon him just like everyone else. His scars represent his past of slavery and being a con constantly following him and haunting him. 

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"it had been nearly twenty five years since the end of slavery, and free men were not supposed to have have fresh scars on their backs, the evidence of a whip. I knew it! the man said I knew he was one of them cons from over at the mines.Ain't nothin' else he could be. Dinah, don't you waste any more time talking to this nigger."(page 176)

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This quote represents Esi and her family. As she was being removed from the slave dungeon she remembered she had buried a stone in the dungeon. The stone represented Esi's remaining connection to her family, her village, her home. Esi fought to get that stone because she knew if she didn't have it with her she wound have nothing else from home.

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"No my stone! Esi shouted remembering the golden black stone her mother had given her"

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In this quote, this symbolizes family influences because they taught Quey about the family's business about slave trading, and they taught him about not to be weak which is hyper masculinity being taught to Quey. 

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"Marry for protection. Quey would never go to Cudjo's village. He would not be weak. He was in the business of slavery, and sacrifices had to be made." (69)- Quey

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In this quote, we can see that the black stone pendant, is a big symbol to Margorie's dad's heritage. Her dad's instruction to never take off, shows its major importance to him and his identity. We can also see that the description of the necklace, with its reflection like ocean water and gold waves shimmering in the black stone, is almost like the past and the present are being intertwined with each other. The necklace seemed to serve the role of being a bridge for personal history, and a more broad section of their history. 

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"Her father had told her that the necklace was a part of their family history and she was to never take it off, never give it away. Now it reflected the ocean water before them, gold waves shimmering in the black stone."

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Willie's experience of watching black mens interpretation of slaves, show how society labels colored (mostly African-Americans). Throughout Willie's chapter, colored groups of performers are only able to present if they are accepted by the clubs bosses (which consists of white men). So colored men would have to put racial acts just to perform, showing how racist the bosses had been, in humalinting them, by showing their stereotypes. 1. Being a wild non-human man being in the jungle (acting like an animal, being dangerous), and 2. Being a slave and picking cotton (Willie mentions how the audience had most likely never associated with the south, and how it had been a stereotype connected with African Americans ) both showing the stereotypes directed towards colored men.

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"In one of the shows, an actor had pretended to be lost in an African jungle-wearing a grass skirt and had marks painted on his head and arms. Instead of speaking he would grunt-The audience had laughed and laughed-the three male actors, the three male actors, the darkest Willie had ever seen in the club, picked cotton onstage-" (Willie 212).

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In this quote we learn that one of the main reasons that Sonny is so attracted to Amani is her musical talent. We learn about how her musical ability reminds Sonny of his mother, and back to a time when he still liked Yaw. This symbol of music throughout Sonny is one of the only reasons that Sonny still has some level of connection to his mother as it remind's him of a time where they still liked each other. Essentially the symbol of music is a connection of current Sonny and Sonny back when he still enjoyed his mother's presence. 

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"She ended in a hm... she made her way out" (251). 

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The symbolism of the scars on H's backs represent the signs of slavery. H resonates with his own self identity throughout the chapter, his representation of him protesting against the guards, shows he identifies as a free-man. However now that he has the symbol of being enslaved (whip markings) he is now treated by society as a slave himself, even if he doesn't identity it with himself, he is now physically a symbol of a enslaved african-american. 

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"It had been nearly twenty five years since the end of slavery, and free men were not supposed to have fresh scars on their backs, the evidence of a whip" (H 167).

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In this quotation. Yaw symbolizes Effia's necklace as heritage and ancestry. Yaw uses this necklace as a way to ask forgiveness in a way seeing the way the necklace has been passed down for generations. Yaw also sees this a way to influence life as a blessing.

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” I took the necklace to the fetish man’s son so that I could make offerings to our ancestors so that they might stop punishing me”(Gyasi 241). 

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The motif of fire is represented throughout the family line of Effia, shown in different perspectives, as either bringing a sense of Warmth/ Comfort or being Destructive and Dangerous. In the chapter Akua, we are introduced to Akua and her experiences with the Firewoman/ and a man being swallowed alive by fire, showing how fire is labeled as being dangerous, fulled with wrath, ETC. Another representation can be in the chapter Effia, when she was born of a fire destroying her father's crops,  leading her to be mistreated as she was labeled as someone destructive. However it's also labeled as something that brings warmth, a example being in the chapter James, when children celebrate around a fire, representing the complete opposite of other chapters. The representation of fire and its different meanings are represntatied in many ways, with fire bringing new life and joy, or it destroys lands and fields.

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"-saw and heard a white man being swallowed alive by fire-He returned her fear to her every night in horrible nightmares where fire consumed everything-Now the firewoman raged" (Akua 177).

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The stereotype of African-Americans is symbolized by how colored are represented. One being: An African-American being inhuman, are described as animals and considered dangerous, while the other: Is described as slaves picking cotton and singing songs. In order to perform, those perfomers had to agree to play those reprenstation of colored Americans, showing the racist side of the clubs.

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" In one of the shows, an actor had pretended to be lost in an African jungle. He was wearing a grass skirt and had marks painted on his head and arms. Instead of speaking he would grunt-the three male actors, the darkest Willie had ever seen in a club, picked cotton onstage-back to picking cotton" (Willie 212).

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In this quote, it is showing us how Yaw's mother is the current owner of the black stone pendant that gets passed down in their family and how she decides to then pass it down to her son. This black stone pendant is a symbolism of of their family's heritage that they continue to pass down to the next and bring along with them on their journey in life. 

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"His mother pulled Effia's necklace from her then and held it out to Yaw. It glowed back in her hand.He touched it,felt the smoothness  of it." (page 241P

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Marcus describes the fire as a controllable feeling, using it to elaborate on his fear but then assurance of Cape Coast Castle. Fire is usually know to be intense and hurtful, but is used in this as a symbol of peace and reassurance. The fear is subsided, and like fire, can be controlled and calmed.

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"The fear that Marcus had felt inside the Castle was still there, but he knew it was like the fire, a wild thing that could still be controlled, contained" (Gyasi 330).

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The reference of black men being littered on the ocean holds generational trauma of being afraid/ not liking water because of the past. Black men were guided into slavery on the water, and if they didn't survive, we're thrown overboard, leaving hundreds to thousands of black men and women on the ocean floor. Water, which is usually seen as calming and peaceful, is used to describe a terrible, gut-wrenching experience that led to generational trauma that makes Marcus hate water to this day.

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"What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men" (Gyasi 284).

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In this quote, they use the symbol of the "devil" to describe the slave owner that is forcing them to get married for "insurance". They also use the devil tp describe how evil and heartless slave owners are since they kidnap innocent people and treat them as if they was animals.

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"The master of hell, the devil himself, in red leather skin and a shock of gray hair, prefers  his slaves married for "insurance reasons" and because  Ness is new to Hell and because no one has claimed her, she is given to calm the new slave sam"

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In this quote, they use the symbol of Morning time to represents a new day rising but along that unfortunately probloy bad, violent events will occur tp Ness which is why the slaves are whispering about Ness. 

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" announced its presence though  the roosters cries, and  the woman in the slave quarters readied themselves for the day, all the while whispering about Nates"

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In  this quote, Yaa gyasi uses the symbol of fire to symbolize fear in akuas heart she does to sleep every night dreaming about fire with so much fear her screams waking her up.

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“That they latched onto the sizzling sounds of fried things.. She woke up screaming..It's the fire. I keep dreaming about fire”

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In this quote, water symbolizes hate, hate towards water and how slaves were forced into ships and when they say "the ocean floor littered with black men" they mean about how slaves believed that death was better then bondage.

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"what did a black man want to swim for?. the ocean floor was already littered with black men"

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In this quotation it shoes how Willie and Robert were in love with each other. W can clearly see love being a important part of that chapter as Willie also loves her son Carson. The two being close shows that they have a connection towards each other 

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(203)“Robert and Willie were as close as any two people could be”

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Akua’s dreams are getting worse now the fire woman represents the curse that the family has due to their involvement with slavery. The woman might be Maame and the children might be Effia and Esi. This shows fire as a motif representing Akua’s dream. We can clearly see fire as a symbol in in Akua's life.

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(Page #186) “ The Fire woman raged against the loss of her children…”

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The black stone pendent is a symbol of shared family heritage.There mother Maame gave the two of them a necklace this represents a connection towards them s family.The black stone was passed down generations in there family.

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"His mother pulled effias necklace from her neck and then held it out to yaw. It glowed back in her hand. He touched it, felt the smoothness of it.(Gyasi 241)

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This quote shows the black pendant is a symbol that represents bad luck. Throughout the story, the black pendant always gives bad luck to the next lineage, James being proof of that as his land won't grow crops. Because of the pendant James crops never grew without him knowing. 

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"When the villagers here gave me this small bit of land, I was so happy that I buried this stone here to give thanks" & "none of them wanted to take a chance with unlucky's daughter. Abena's father's crops had never grown. Year after year, season after season, the earth spitted up rotten plants or sometimes nothing at all"

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In this quote, Someone who is privileged lied for their benefit. Ness was seen as one of the suspects because of the scars she has. Ness's scars are a symbol of her getting beat. Changing how others see her. An example of this is the owner of the plantation who now looks down on her from her scars not truly knowing what exactly gave her them.

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"Ness was sure that he could see clear as day what had happened, but it was the memory of her scars that made him doubt."

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Across "Homegoing", Yaa Gyasi uses the symbol of the Black Stone Pendant to represent the Legacy Effia created and passed on for generations to come and family Ancestry of the past. When the author mentions "descendants to guide them" this helps me understand that the Black Stone Pendant is a way of Marjories ancestors of the past to guide her through the difficulties in life.

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"They stayed with their descendants to guide them through life, to comfort them, sometimes to scare them into waking from their fog of unloving, unloving. Marjorie reached for the stone at her neck. Her ancestor's gift."

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In this quote, we first learn about how important yams are to the fante village. An extremely precious crop that sustained life for many families. Throughout "home going" we see yams become a symbol on multiple different occasions but yams represent nourishment and something precious to them. When cobbe lost seven yams he says "he felt each loss as a blow to his own family" this shows that yams are helping families this is how they sustain their life. 

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"Effia''s father cobbe otcher, left his first wife, baaba, with the new baby so that he might survey the damage to his yams, that most precious crop known far and wide to sustain families. Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss as a blow to his own family." (page. 1)