https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw Made with joy en-us 2018-01-31 12:15:22 UTC 2018-01-31 16:30:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533481 In I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Mrs. Flowers said, "Now no one is going to make you talk—possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals" (Angelou 98).]]> 2018-01-31 13:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533481 lewisrockwell https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533632 One important characteristic of the main character of the mother in The Bean Trees is that "no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars", which implies that the mother was a very loving human being (Kingsolver 47).]]> 2018-01-31 13:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533632 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533649 In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain said, "Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even
went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he
would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging" (79).]]> 2018-01-31 13:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226533649 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226534285 According to John Hersey in Hiroshima, all of the survivors of the disaster thought for a long time about the way that minor and seemingly inconsequential actions saved their lives and condemned others to death (123).]]> 2018-01-31 13:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226534285 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226534721 Amy Tan creates a beautiful metaphor for self growth: "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look! – it is too beautiful to eat" (103).

]]> 2018-01-31 13:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226534721 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226535670 As stated by Harper Lee, "There are just some kind men who--who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results" (1000).]]> 2018-01-31 13:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226535670 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226536298 One important thing said in The Secret Life of Bees is that "the secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail" (Kidd 134).]]> 2018-01-31 13:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/cae44x2dighw/wish/226536298