WSS Quote Bank by Shani Thanki-Franklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls en-us 2024-03-19 09:10:46 UTC 2024-06-18 18:13:21 UTC hello@padlet.com They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924780348 Page 5


]]> 2024-03-19 09:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924780348 ...far too young for him they thought, and, worse still, a Martinique girl. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924780906 Page 5. Talking about Annette.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924780906 One calm evening he shot his dog, swam out to sea and was gone for always. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924781370 Page 5

]]> 2024-03-19 09:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924781370 (they notice clothes, they know about money). shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924783345 Page 5. Talking about black people.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924783345 Now we are marooned shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924784400 Page 6. Annette when her horse dies.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924784400 She grew thin and silent, and at last she refused to leave the house at all. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924785303 Page 6. Talking about Annette.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924785303 Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924785916 Page 6.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924785916 (My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed – all belonged to the past.) shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924786615 Page 5.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924786615 All Coulibri Estate had gone wild like a garden, gone to bush. No more slavery – why should anybody work? shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924787727 Page 6. Note: the "anybody" is in italics.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924787727 To die and be forgotten and at peace. Not to know that one is abandoned, lied about, helpless. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924789382 Page 8.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924789382 I never looked at any strange negro. They hated us. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924794651 Page 9

]]> 2024-03-19 09:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924794651 Soon Tia was my Friend and I met her nearly every morning at the turn of the road to the river. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924796360 Page 9.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924796360 'Keep them then, you cheating nigger,' I said, for I was tired, and the water I swallowed made me feel sick. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924797959 Page 10.


Note: This is the moment that Antoinette's relationship with Tia becomes racialised. It's the moment they are no longer friends.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924797959 Old time white people nothing but white nigger now, and black nigger better than white nigger. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924808798 Page 10. Tia's response after Antoinette calls her a racial slur.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924808798 No more slavery! She had to laugh! These new ones have Letter of the Law. Same thing. They got magistrate. They got fine. They got jail house and chain gang. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924812733 Page 11

]]> 2024-03-19 09:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924812733 And all those women! She never did anything to stop him – she encouraged him. Presents and smiles for the bastards every Christmas. Old customs? Some old customs are better dead and buried. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924820318 Page 13. Talking about Antoinette's parents.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924820318 Don't you fly at me like a little wild cat when I say nigger. Not nigger, nor even Negro. Black people I must say. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924822163 Page 15. Mr Mason talking to Annette.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924822163 'They're too damn lazy to be dangerous,' said Mr Mason shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924823037 Page 16.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924823037 'They are more alive than you are, lazy or not, and they can be dangerous and cruel for reasons you wouldn't understand.' shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924825254 Page 16. Annette talking about the former slaves.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924825254 But you were never molested, never harmed. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924825945 Page 15. Mr Mason talking about the former slaves to Annette.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924825945 They can smell money, somebody said. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924827576 Page 16. Note: The word "smell" is italicised. Talking about Sass's return to Coulibri after Mr Mason fixes it up.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924827576 We ate English food now, beef and mutton, pies and puddings. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924828789 Page 17.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924828789 Live here most of your life and know nothing about the people. It's astonishing. They are children – they wouldn't hurt a fly. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924831621 Page 18. Mr Mason talking about the former slaves.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924831621 'Not a wedding,' I said. 'There is never a wedding.' He frowned at me but Aunt Cora smiled. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924835426 Page 16. Mr Mason's confusion about what the former slaves (current apprentices) are doing answered by Antoinette.

]]> 2024-03-19 09:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924835426 My stepfather talked about a plan to import labourers – coolies he called them – from the East Indies shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924944030 Page 17. Referring to low-wage Indian workers.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924944030 I was glad to be like an English girl but I missed the taste of Christophine's cooking. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924945454 Page 17.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924945454 They will repent in the morning. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924947672 Page 20. Mr Mason talking about the black people who were beginning to show their outrage outside of Coulibri Estate.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924947672 they roared as we came out shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924949160 Page 21. Describing the angry group of black people who had congregated outside of Coulibri Estate.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924949160 After Mr Mason clipped his wings he grew very bad tempered, and though he would sit quietly on my mother's shoulder, he darted at everyone who came near her and pecked their feet. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924950763 Page 22. Describing Coco the parrot.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924950763 everybody was looking up and pointing at Coco on the glacis railings with his feathers alight. He made an effort to fly down, but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching. He was all on fire. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924952751 Page 22-3.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924952751 The man said, 'So black and white, they burn the same, eh?' shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924954446 Page 23.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924954446 What you think people believe, eh? You, or the white nigger? shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924955456 Page 23. The slaves discussing whether they should allow Antoinette's family to pass.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924955456 As I ran, I thought, I will live with Tia and I will be like her. Not to leave Coulibri. Not to go. Not. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924958183 Page 24.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924958183 I looked at her and I saw her face crumple up as she began to cry. We stared at each other, blood on my face, tears on hers. It was as if I saw myself. Like in a looking-glass. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924959661 Page 24. Antoinette talking about Tia after she has thrown a rock at her.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924959661 What was the use of welling her that I'd been awake before and heard my mother screaming 'Qui est là? Qui est là?' then 'Don't touch me. I'll kill you if you touch me. Coward. Hypocrite. I'll kill you.' shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924965107 Page 25. Antoinette's conversation with Aunt Cora.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924965107 It was as if I’d expected it, been waiting for it https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924965670 After Rochester reads Daniel Cosway’s letter page 62

]]> 2024-03-19 11:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924965670 Sing Before I was set free. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924967864 Page 26.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924967864 She have eyes like zombi and you have eyes like zombi too. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924969249 Page 27. Black girl taunting Antoinette about her mother.

]]> 2024-03-19 11:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924969249 Your mouth is colder than my hands https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924971038 Page 87. Antionette talking to Rochester

]]> 2024-03-19 12:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924971038 He had long legs, his feet hardly touched the ground. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924971249 Page 28. Antoinette's description of Sandi.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924971249 I would have died sooner than run when they were there. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924972675 Page 28. Antoinette talking about the black children who taunted her.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924972675 As you wish https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924973911 Page 87. Antoinette’s response to Rochester calling her Bertha

]]> 2024-03-19 12:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924973911 “That is what I remember most about the encounter. She was so gay, so natural and something of this gaiety she must have given to me…”, “I had no wish to touch her and she knew it…”, “Before I left I wanted to give her a present. It was a large present…” aslinbergeron https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924974240 page 89-90 Rochester’s affair with Amelie and his disposal of her post sexual release

]]> 2024-03-19 12:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924974240 The boy... had a white skin, a dull ugly white with freckles, his mouth was a negro's mouth... Worst, most horrible of all, his hair was crinkled, a negro's hair, but bright red shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924975713 Page 26-7. Antoinette describing the boy who taunted her.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924975713 Linking with post before, ‘her skin was darker, lips thicker than I thought’ https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924977557 Page 89. Rochester describes his experiences with Amelie

]]> 2024-03-19 12:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924977557 She need not have done what she did to me. I will always swear that, she need not have done it https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924980727 Page 87.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924980727 I was certain that hidden in the room (behind the old black press?) there was a dead man's dried hand, white chicken feathers, a cock with its throat cut, dying slowly. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924980790 Page 14. Antoinette feeling fear while waiting in Christophine's room.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924980790 ‘When we went to England’ Antoinette, ‘You fool, this is England, Grace Pool, ‘I don’t believe it’ Antoinette https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924990283 Page 119.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924990283 A lovely little creature but sly, spiteful, malignant perhaps, like much else in this place. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924990687 Page 39. Rochester describing Amélie.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924990687 I noticed that he did not call me ‘sir’ or ‘master’ https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924992360 Page 91. Rochester talking about Baptiste

]]> 2024-03-19 12:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924992360 'And who was massacred here? Slaves?' 'Oh no.' She sounded shocked. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924994640 Page 39. Rochester asking about the name of the place they are in. Note: there is a paragraph break between the dialogue.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924994640 She is intelligent in her way and can express herself well, but I did not like the look of her at all, and consider her a most dangerous person https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924995984 Page 91-92. From a letter Mr. Fraser wrote describing Christophine

]]> 2024-03-19 12:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924995984 Creole of pure English descent she may be, but they are not English or European either. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924996738 Page 40.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924996738 Her hair hung uncombed and dull into her eyes which were inflamed and staring, her face was very flushed and look swollen. Her feet were bare. However when she spoke her voice was low, almost inaudible https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924998790 Page 93. Rochester describes Antoinette

]]> 2024-03-19 12:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2924998790 The Young Bull laughed loudly. 'He don't know how old he is, he don't think about it. I tell you sir these people are not civilized.' shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925001376 Page 41. The Young Bull (a former slave) ridiculing Emile, another former slave.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925001376 This red-eyed wild-haired stranger who was my wife shouting obscenities at me. It was at this nightmare moment that I heard Christophine’s calm voice. https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925005577 Page 95

]]> 2024-03-19 12:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925005577 Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925006261 Page 42.

]]> 2024-03-19 12:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2925006261 though she could speak good English if she wanted to, and French as well as patois, she took care to talk as they talked. shanithankifranklin https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2932736085 Page 7. Talking about Christophine. Comparing her to the other Jamaican former slave women.

]]> 2024-03-25 15:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/2932736085 “I looked into her lovely meaningless face” simioyewole https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029898846 Page 89. Rochester after sleeping with Amelie

]]> 2024-06-17 10:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029898846 (They notice clothes, they know about money). riolatunde https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029905870 This shows that Antoinette saw slaves as less than human as this implies the thought that before the slavery emancipation, slaves simply didn’t develop as humans mentally. Therefore by dehumanising them this way she assumes that they would not have basic knowledge of human necessities.

]]> 2024-06-17 10:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029905870 "Germaine's grey eyes were beautiful, she spoke slowly and, unlike most Creole girls, was very even-tempered." https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029906191 This is quoted by Antoinette, during her time at the Mount Calvary convent in Spanish town. This description of Germaine depicts Antoinette's desire to appease Mr Mason's expectation of her adhering to her "racial pedigree"

]]> 2024-06-17 10:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029906191 “Before I left I wanted to give her a present” simioyewole https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029906211 Rochester referring to Amelie

]]> 2024-06-17 10:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shanithankifranklin/79lkljqv42gsr7ls/wish/3029906211