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Sunday, November 25, 2018
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Please share a quote that has resonated with you thus far in your book. Share the quote (please put it into quotation marks) and then provide your fellow bloggers with reasons for choosing that particular quote. Feel free to explain it within the context of the book, break it down for fellow readers, or relate the quote to your own personal life.
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""I don't feel like it," Gus said." The reason I chose this quote is because I never want to do anything. With the amount of stress as a teenager, I am tired and done with everything 98.5% of the time.The phrase " I don't feel like it" is large part of my daily vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this. Haha
DeleteTaylor P: I mean, true...it be like that.
DeleteI also agree with this! Story of my life!
DeleteAs a fellow teenager, I can agree to this statement in its entirety. I understand the full meaning of this quote.
DeleteOne of an interesting abundance of quotes/instances that I have came across in my readings, thus far,is a brief transaction between the protagonist's mother and sister, Vera: "'How come bigger acts that way?' Vera asked, crying again...'He's just crazy,' the mother said, 'Just plain dumb black crazy.'" (Wright 8). I feel like the context extends greatly. In just this brief moment, alone, I can learn of the many tribulations of the young Bigger. As a black, coming-of-age male, the existing pressure (to support his family and find a sense of identity in a society that is--and has always--depicted him as a criminal) is just magnified, and what truly irritates me is how he is expected to idly swallow his ideas, his voice...because, if he were to vocalize anything, it would merely be labeled **and disregarded** as "plain"..."dumb"..."black".."crazy". I predict that as the story progresses, I hate to say it, but it is almost as though Bigger is being brainwashed to adopt his unjust criminalization, say, he is led to believe that he is presented only two roads: a life of crime, lived with his friends, robbing their own people, OR a life of servitude and silence. I mean...this injustice of the Jim Crow era makes my blood boil, man.
ReplyDeleteI am terribly sorry, haha. I would like to establish that I, Taylor Pendleton, wrote this comment ^^
ReplyDelete"Like a man about to shoot himself and dreading to shoot and yet knowing that he has to soot and feeling it all at once and powerfully, he watched gus and waited for him to say yes." I picked this quote because it hows that Bigger knows he is making a mistake. I liked this specific quote because it implies something big is going to happen between Bigger and his buddies.
ReplyDeleteThe page number for this quote is 25.
DeleteI found this quote interesting, as well...has such a magnitude, really sends shivers down your spine.
DeleteThis quote really shows the violent side of Bigger's life. In that moment, he knows that he is being violent, but he can't control himself.
DeleteThis quote shows the exact thought and what the mood was like exactly. I quite like this quote.
Delete"His mother came into the room with more plates of food and he saw how soft and shapeless she was. Her eyes were tired and sunken and darkly ringed from a long lack of rest. She moved about slowly, touching objects with her fingers as she passed them, using them for support. Her feet dragged over the wooden floor and her face held an expression of tense effort. Whenever she wanted to look at anything, even though it was near her, she turned her entire head and body to see it and did not shift her eyes. There was in her heart, it seemed, a heavy and delicately balanced burden whose weight she did not want to assume by disturbing it one whit. She saw him looking at her." (page 108).This quote stood out to me because Bigger was sitting at the kitchen table admiring his mother and realizing that she was getting old and slowing down. In this excerpt, there is a brief reveal of affection that Bigger is showing for his mother.
ReplyDeleteI like this quote because it shows emotions towards Biggers mom that he doesn't express much yet.
ReplyDelete"Say, what's a 'Left flank'? Gus asked." This is on page 18. I chose this quote because to me, it seems obvious what the word flanks mean. This shows that education for certain people back then was different. Some information was not provided to them, and it is weird to find out differences like this.
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