TWD Motifs (CH.1-4) PER. 10 by Carla Sanford

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

csanford20 — 2024-08-21 16:28:45 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 16:28:45 UTC

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"A dancer wreathed in ghostly blue" (Coates 1)

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"There was a peace in that blue light, more peace than sleep itself, and more than that, there was freedom, and I knew that the elders had not lied, that there really was a home - place of our own, a life beyond the Task" (Coates 9).

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"I looked back at the stone bridge, which must have been, my God, a half mile away. The bridge seemed to be almost racing away from me"(Coates 6).

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

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"I was Tasked with Maynard, this personal servant for the next seven years of my life. It may seem strange now, but the insult of it all did not immediately fawn on me. It accumulated slowly and inexorably over the years as I watched Maynard at work"(Coates 37).

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"And she was patting juba on the bridge, an earthen jar on her head, a great mist rising from the river below nipping at her bare heels...causing her necklace to shake" (Coates 4).

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"Please! I can't" I yelled over the water

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"There was peace in that blue light, more peace than sleep, and more than that, there was freedom, and I knew that the elders had not lied, that there really was a home place of our own, a life beyond the Task, where every moment is as daybreak over mountains" (Coates 8-9)

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"But there really was no need to recall, for it felt to me that the bridge was right there, on the blank paper, and all I need do was trace the lines to reveal it" (Coates 32)

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"Then everything fell away, the chains, Maynard, the field itself, and I was enveloped in the blackness of night." (Coates 44)

"... all of us, chained together ... 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 palm of his hand"(Coates 44).

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"But on a hot day like the one that was coming,I was sent with the other children to bring water to the tasking folk in the field. (Coates 16)

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"he opened his hand and offered the necklace, and I saw, at long last, my reward"(Coates 9)

"I was pushing the horse as hard as I could, because all I wanted was to be home and free of Maynard's voice, though I could never, in this life, be free of him"(Coates 5).

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2024-08-21 19:23:21 UTC

"I was pushing the horse as hard as I could, because all I wanted was to be home and free of Maynard's voice, though I could never, in this life, be free of him. Maynard who held my chain" (Coates 5).