TWD Motifs (CH.1-4) PER. 7-8 by Carla Sanford

Individuals: You will choose 3 quotes to add to your Google Document (Themes/Motifs).

csanford20 — 2024-08-21 16:06:18 UTC

Small Groups: Each group will need to find 2-3 quotes that support their assigned motifs. Each quote must be correctly cited (Coates 57).

csanford20 — 2024-08-21 16:06:18 UTC

Maynard & Hiram

2024-08-21 17:23:36 UTC

"I saw Maynard, not as the young man I knew, but as a baby crawling in a bowling green, and then I saw the Tasked slowly disappearing before me, their familiar faces and bodies fading and fading, one by one, until it was only me, an old man held and chained by a baby." (Coates 44).

2024-08-21 17:25:07 UTC

"Legions of the lost, brought across that baleful bridge, legions embodied in my dancing mother"(5).

Georgie's Chains

2024-08-21 17:25:52 UTC

" 'And I think of all that beauty sometimes, how it was them chains... Man, I tell you, when I took up with Amber , vowed I would get her out." ( Coates 60).

2024-08-21 17:26:38 UTC

"I had always avoided that bridge, for it was stained with the remembrance of mothers, uncles, and cousins gone Natchez-way"(3).

Hiram

2024-08-21 17:26:43 UTC

"And I could only have seen her there on the stone bridge, a dancer wreathed in ghostly blue, because that was the way they would have taken her back when I was young." (Coates 1)

2024-08-21 17:28:21 UTC

"I know now that this story, this Conduction, had to begin there on that fantastic bridge between the land of the living and the land of the lost"(4).

Maynard and Hiram

2024-08-21 17:28:56 UTC

"That night I dreamed that I was out in the tobacco fields again, out there with the Tasked, and we were, all of us, chained together and this chain was linked to one long chain and at the end of it stood Maynard, idling lost in his own thoughts, almost unaware that he was holding all of us in the plan of his hand." (Coates 43-44).

Hiram

2024-08-21 17:29:30 UTC

" But knowing know the awesome power of memory, how it can open a blue door to another, how it can move us from mountains from meadows." ( Coates 1)

Hiram drowning

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"The road beneath the wheels disappeared and the whole of the bridge fell away, and for a moment I felt myself floating on, or maybe in, the blue light." (Coates 6)

2024-08-21 17:31:04 UTC

"Rising quickly and rushing inside, I found the elements of my morning vision scattered there before me-horses and the long trough of water. I came close to each of the horses and looked them in the eyes. The horses only started stupidly back" (Coates 13).

Hirams Memory of Horses

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"I searched for a fully fleshed memory, and found only scraps. Screams Pleading---someone pleading with me. The strong smell of horses" (Coates 11).

Hiram

2024-08-21 17:31:52 UTC

"The road beneath the wheel disappeared, and the whole of the bridge fell away, and for the moment I felt myself floating on, or maybe in, the blue light. And it was warm there, and I remember that brief warmth because just as suddenly as I floated out, I was in the water, under the water, and even as I tell you this now, I fell myself back there again in the icy bite of that river Goose, the water rushing into me, and that particular burning agony that comes only to the drowning." (Coates 06)

Dreaming about Sofia

2024-08-21 17:33:27 UTC

"when I watched the day light of Sofia fade like dying sun over the blue Virginia mountains." (Coates 54)

Hiram

2024-08-21 17:34:07 UTC

" I remember crying out for breath and more I remember the agony of the answer, The agony of water rushing into me, and how I answered that agony by heaving, which only invited more water.

The rebirth of his mother

2024-08-21 17:35:40 UTC

¨I remembered because i was the dancing that brought me to her to the attention of my father, and thus had brought me to be¨(pg.4)

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"white of folks come down to say your in the fields is over, that you are going up top. but they want your family, Hiram i want you too see that. you cannot forget yourself up here, and we cannot forget each other. they're calling us up, now, you hear? us. that trick of yours. and I saw it , we all saw it, got me too, I am to come up tend to you,and you might think you have saved me. (21)

Maynard found family with the Low's

2024-08-21 17:37:56 UTC

"I was watching Maynard, who had, it seemed, forgotten all the insults and slights and was now laughing and blasting with the low whites, and it seemed that Maynard had, in spite of himself, found his people. Or they'd found him." (Coates 52)

Water dancer?

2024-08-21 17:38:09 UTC

"The speed of thought I saw her flittering before my eyes water dancing in the ring" page 8 (what is a water dancer and why does he talk about different colors being a water dancer what and is it even real??)