TEWWG - Examining Quotations

TEWWG - Examining Quotations Closely - Ch 12-18

Quotations - For your group’s quotation, go back to the text and think about the significance of the quotation.  How is this quotation significant?  What human tendency or theme does it illustrate and/or what important character traits does it illustrate?

1. It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.  (116)

2. If Ah ever gits tuh messin’ round another woman it won’t be on account of her age.  It’ll be because she got me in de same way you got me--so Ah can’t help mayself.  (121)

3. He pinched her in the side and ignored what she said.  (122)

4. “You musta thought yo’wife was powerful ugly...You neve even ‘lowed me tuh git dat close.”  (124)

5. It was part of him, so it was all right.  She rather found herself angry at imaginary people who might try to criticize.”  (126)

6.  “When Ah ain’t got nothin’ you don’t git nothin.’” (128)

7. Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to.  (134)

8. All gods who receive homage are cruel....Real gods require blood.  (145)

9. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession.  (147)

10. “It’s so many people never seen de light at all.”  (159)