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

The Water Dancer Thematic Idea Tracker

csanford20 — 2024-08-21 15:13:08 UTC

Small Group:

Directions: Your group will need to find 2-3 quotes that support your assigned thematic idea. Each quote must be correctly cited (Coates 43).

Individual

csanford20 — 2024-08-21 16:12:14 UTC

You will review the Padlet and record a quote for 3 different Thematic Ideas. (This will be recorded on your digital tracker).

"...his eyes were aglow...like those of my tasking elders, down on the distant Street, used to be" (Coates 29).

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"They ain't your family, boy. I am more your mother standing right here now than that white man on that horse is your father"(Coates 22).

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"All my life I had wanted to get out. I was unoriginal in this-all the Tasked felt the same. But, separate from them, separate from all of Lockless, I possessed the means" (Coates 10).

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"I went down the line like this until I held a clutch of stories in my head, so many that no one else could remember who had said what and what the particular details were ... I went back down the line, repeating back to each of the speakers their own stories, in every detail, but with drama and embellishment" (Coates 29).

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"I was his right arm and thus had no arm of my own. But that was all over now"(Coates 43).

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" She loved to knit, and I often saw her walking among the garden and orchards, working her needles, so that this knitting might be taken to be her only task." (46)

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"Big John wasn't no driver 'cause he was the meanest... he was a driver because he was the wisest... He could tell you the best way to dig out the horn-worms" (Coates 17).

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"And there was never a need to tell me any story twice, because if you told me that Hank Powers cried for three hours when his daughter was born I remembered, and if you told me that Lucille Simms made a new dress out of her mother's work clothes for Christmas, I remembered" (Coates 11).

With that admission of imminent death memories of my life seconded on me undbidden, and now the same blue light I'd even on the bridge returned and enveloped me again. (Coates 8)

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"I was certain my father saw things as I did, and wondered how wrong it must have felt to see the best of you emerge in this way, in the place you didn't expect, indeed in the lace your whole world depends on it never appearing"(Coates 33).

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"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 younger, back when the Virginia earth was still red as brick and red with life, and though there were other bridges spanning the river Goose, they would have bound her and brought her across this one, because this was the bridge that fed into the turnpike that twisted its way through the green hills and down the valley before bending in one direction, and that direction was south"(Coates 1).

Yes

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"Everything about my life flowed from that decision. It kept me from seeing the worst of our condition. Almost any tasking man at Lockless would have traded his life for mine." (Coates 43)

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"Thena could not know how much I needed those small jigsaws of my mother, Which together, over the years, I forged into a portrait of the woman who lived in dreams, like Big John, but only as smoke" (Coates 19)

"I was tasked with Maynard, his personal servant for the next seven years of my life. It may seem strange now, but the insult of it all did not immediately dawn on me"( Coates 37).

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

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"It happened when I was 9 years old. the day after my mother was taken and sold. I awoke that cold winter morning knowing she was gone like a fact."(Coates11).

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"The number of the Tasked had, and that was my first inkling that even here in the house the Tasked could be sent Natchez-way. I worked energetically, more still when from time to time .. " (Coates 24).

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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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"I can now say that slavery murdered him, that slavery made a child of him, and now dropped into a world where slavery held no sway..." (Coates 7).

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" I stayed up late that night peering up at the rafters,thinking on Thena's word. A beautiful woman, the kindest heart, did not gossip, kept to herself. I added this to the memories of her I'd collected from the people on the Street. Thena could not know how much I needed those small jigsaws of my mother, which together, over the years, I forged into a portrait of the woman who lived in dreams, like Big John, but only as smoke." (Coates 19)