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- - - - Mrs. Cullinan
        
        changes Maya's name (segregation)
      - Dr. Lincoln
        
        refuses to treat Maya (segregation) - "Annie, my policy is I'd rather stick my hand in a dog's mouth than in a nigger's" pg.203
      - Mr. Donleavy
        
        said black people can only become athletes (racism)
      - Maya
        
        "It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life" pg.194
        
        “I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.”
      - “The Japanese were not whitefolks. Their
        eyes, language and customs belied the
        white skin and proved to their dark
        successors that since they didn't have to
        be feared, neither did they have to be
        considered. All this was decided
        unconsciously.”
    - - Maya
        
        “musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed (To whom it may concern)” pg.7
        
        "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being
        aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that
        threatens the throat."
        
        metaphor
      - Bailey
        
        On return to Arkansas from St. Louis, he recounts his experience of big city life to those who have never lived it.
      - Katharina
        
        Even though Katharina doesn't experience physical racism, rather she experiences a mental and ethical displacement.
        
        She loses her identity in society and questions her morals
    - - Maya
        
        breaks her boss's heirloom china, becomes first streetcar conductor in San Francisco
        
        "Now no one is going to make you talk - possibly no one can". pg. 42
      - Big Bailey
        
        wears flashy clothes, drives fancy cars
      - Momma
        
        Ignores racist and prejudiced behaviour, in order to show herself to above the degredation she endures
      - Clidell
        
        cons white people
      - Mr. McElroy
        
        Dresses and acts similar to the upper class whites
    - - Katharina
        
        “’Well, did he fuck you?’ whereupon Katharina apparently not only blushed but said triumphantly: “’No, I wouldn’t call it that” (p.10)
        
        Commissioner is focused more on her sexuality, sexualisation of Katharina
        
        “…all they found being Katarina ‘ looking extremely relaxed, almost happy…drinking coffee from a large mug and taking a bite from a slice of white bread and honey…she aroused suspicion (p.10)
  - - - Figurative
      - phoentic
    - - figurative
      - verbs/adverbs
      - modal verbs
      - preposition
    - - character
    - - first person (maya)
      - subjective
    - - foreshadowing
      - significance of the quotation
  - - - naration
      - dialogue
      - description