Kura Quotes by Jackson Cropper https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj Respond with what you think these quotes symbolize about the story. Why is this quote significant to the text? What is another layer to the quote and what does it symbolize? What does it suggest about Maori oppression. en-us 2021-10-25 12:45:53 UTC 2021-10-27 12:52:24 UTC hello@padlet.com “Grandmother make the dresses or to have her dress tried on. Didn’t want to talk about the dresses. She told me she wanted to go back to her mother and father and kept urging me to ask our grandmother if she could go home, but I wouldn't. I wasn’t old enough to ask our grandmother a thing like that. Riripeti’s dress was the spotted one, mine was plain blue.” (157) jacksoncropper https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846852290 2021-10-27 02:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846852290 “She smelled like an animal and spoke like an animal, had to go to the corner until she stopped being an animal... Her spirit was out of her, gone roaming. Her hair was as dry as a horse’s tail, rough and hard, her eyes were like flat shadows, not at all like eyes. I had seen a dying dog look like that, which made me think it might be true what the teacher said, that my teina was changing into an animal.” (154) jacksoncropper https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846853017 2021-10-27 02:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846853017 “ ‘Off you go and take your language with you. We’re not having any of that in my school and in front of these children.’ ‘I go, yes, I take my grandson too,’ the grandfather said to him in English.” (157) jacksoncropper https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846853999 2021-10-27 02:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoncropper/eyutiykpbw8dg2rj/wish/1846853999