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Jesymn Ward's Family : (Death ("Only this loss, this pain. I…
Jesymn Ward's Family :
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DeLisle
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"Sometimes, when I think of all the men who've died early in my family over the generations, I think DeLisle is the wolf" (Ward 14).
"...and spent hours there studiously ignoring the county police as they circled us like vultures , suspecting us of using and selling drugs wherever we gathered" (106)
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"The land that the community park is built on, I recently learned, is designated to be used as burial sites so the graveyard can expand as we die..." (p.126)
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Joshua
"One day he isn't there, and the next day he is. And just like that, I'm his big sister" (49).
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Home
"When I attended college in the Bay area, I missed the Mississippi air" (Page 48)
"Perhaps it was easier for me to navigate that world than my won home, where my parents were having heated arguemnts in the dining room turned bedroom and my father was disappearing for weeks at a time" (85).
"How could I know then that this would be my life: yearning to leave the South and doing so again and again, but perpetually called back to home by a love so thick it chocked me?" (Ward 195).
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Death
"Only this loss, this pain. I could not understand why there was always this" (Ward 41)
"I tried to hear the narrative in that, to figure out who the they that wrote our story might be." (Ward 38)
"Rog and Charine talked about how things in the hood had changed, how we felt like death was stalking us, driving us from one another, the community falling apart" (31)
"[T]he world outside our house taught me and my brother different lessons about violence. Our play taught us that violence could be sudden, unpredictable, and severe" (56)
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