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Elements of American Literature (knowledge ((("Why was there nothing…

- - - - "Why was there nothing it refused? no misery, no regret, no hateful picture too rotten to accept? Like a greedy child it snatched up everything. Just once, could it say, No thank you? i Just ate and can't hold another bite?...I don't want to know or have to remember that." (70)
- - - - "Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie. There are benefits to being without nostalgia." (64)
      - "But when they shoved him into box and dropped the cage door down, his hand quit taking instruction. On their own, they traveled. Nothing could stop them or get their attention. They would not hold his penis to urinate or a spoon to scoop lumps of lima beans into his mouth. The miracle of their obedience came with the hammer at dawn."
- - - - "Gore the, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving Demby an additional call, raised his musket to his face, taking deadly ai, at his standing victim, and in an instant poor Demby was no more." (14)
        
        Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it... (4)
- - - - "Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was. Even if you cooked him you'd be cooking a rooster named mister. ...I was something else and that something was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (103)
- - - - Mister, he looked so...free. Better than me. Stronger, tougher. Son a bitch couldn't even get of of the shell hisself but he was still king and I was." (102)