Additional Quotes by Noah Sackowitz https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin en-us 2020-03-04 17:42:02 UTC 2026-01-04 11:21:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 20farnworths https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541076 "You've got two feet Sethe, not four" (194)]]> 2020-03-04 18:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541076 Page 182 https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541338 "The craving for pork was growing into mania in every city in the country"  I think this was an interesting quote because the pork can be a metaphor for the slaves 

"... to belong to a community of other free Negroes- to love and be loved by them, to counsel and be counseled, protect and be protected, feed and be fed.." (209) ]]> 2020-03-04 18:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541338 20downeyh https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541455 "NOBODY SAW THEM FALLING." (205)

"By the time Sethe was released she had exhausted blue and was well on her way to yellow." (208)

"He hoped she stuck to blue, yellow, maybe green, and never fixed on red." (213)

"I don't have to remember nothing. I don't even have to explain. She understands it all." (216)

"This is the first time I'm telling it and I'm telling it to you because it might help explain something to you although I know you don't need me to d0 it." (228)]]> 2020-03-04 18:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454541455 The Jungle - Page 234 https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542069 "Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle...The more coloredpeople spent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human (emphasis mine)...the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside" (234)

the quote is very long so i took some important parts

talks about the white people/slaveowners forcing this savage/animalistic image onto slaves, while the slaves want to feel human.

the most remembered experiences were all ones where slaves felt like they were less human, as discussed before]]> 2020-03-04 18:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542069 To this day he believed his berries (which sparked the feast and the wood chopping that followed) were the reason Denver was still alive. Had he not been there, chopping firewood, Sethe would have spread her baby brains on the planking. (200-201) https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542363
This shows how our actions directly impact our future and the future of others.]]> 2020-03-04 18:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542363 Trudging in the ruts let earlier by wheels, Sethe was excited to giddiness by the things she no longer had to remember. I don't have to remember nothing. I don't even have to explain . She understands it all. I can forget how Baby Suggs' heart collapsed... (215-216). https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542559 This refers to concept of willingly remembering certain memories compared to choosing to forget other ones, and is important because it deals with the concept of forgetting and rememory. ]]> 2020-03-04 18:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454542559 https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454543019 "So who was this woman with a mouth that was not Sethe's, but whose eyes were almost as calm as hers?" (183).
Mouth represents voice and expression, and for the first time Sethe was able to make her own decisions and did what she thought was best to kill her children in order to save them from slavery. She has a "different mouth" as for the first time she did something that she wasn't old to do and did something that the slaveowners wouldn't like or would demand her to do. ]]> 2020-03-04 18:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454543019 "You saying God give up? Nothing left for us but pour out our own blood?" 211 https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454543491 2020-03-04 18:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454543491 "She should have known that he would behave like everybody else in town once he knew. The twenty-eight days of having women friends, a mother-in-law, and all her children together; of being part of a neighborhood; of, in fact, having neighbors at all to call her own- all that was long gone and would never come back." (204) https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454544366 2020-03-04 18:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454544366 "This time, although he could cipher but one word, he believed he knew who spoke them. The people of the broken necks, of fire-cooked blood and black girls who had lost their ribbons. (213) https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454545007 2020-03-04 18:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/20sackowitzn/g91a88h7xdin/wish/454545007