Beloved

media type="custom" key="23687102" media type="custom" key="23687150" media type="custom" key="23687224" September 3, 2013 1. Discuss the Reading for today. 2. Look at several excerpts:

For each of the following excerpts answer these two questions: 1. What does it tell us about the character(s) and what they are experiencing? 2. What is significant about this quote? Does it contain any deeper meaning?

Excerpt #1: "Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one."

Excerpt #2: "They were not holding hands but their shadows were."

Excerpt #3: "He was responsible for that. Emotions sped to the surface in his company. Things became what they were: drabness looked drab; heat was hot. Windows suddenly had view. And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man."

Excerpt #4: "Soothed by sugar, surrounded b a crowd of people who did not find her the main attraction, who, in fact, said, 'Hey, Denver," every now and then, pleased her enough to consider the possibility that Paul D wasn't all that bad."

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