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Key Themes and Key Quotes Letters 1-20 - Coggle Diagram
Key Themes and Key Quotes Letters 1-20
Gender
"I'm big"
" I see him looking at my little sister. She scared"
" I tell him I can fix myself up for him"
"She ain't fresh"
"cause she my wife. Plus, she stubborn. All women are good for"
"Young womens no good these days"
"His mamma stop everything to nurse him"
"They fighting like two mens."
" A girl child aint' safe in a family of men "
Culture
Education
" I'm Big"
"I tell Nettie to keep at her books"
"I want her to git some more schooling .Make a school teeacher out of her"
"The first time I got big Pa took me out of school"
"Your too dump to keep going to school"
Relationships
"You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't"
"He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church"
"He beat me for dressing trampy but he do it to me anyway"
"You got to fight "
Ethnicity and Race
"She too black"
"Bright skin"
Religion
"Dear God"
"God took it"
Identity
"I am I have always been a good girl"
Don't nobody come and see us"
Sometime he still be looking at Nettie,
Sometime he still be looking at Nettie but I always git in his light "
"She spoiled"
"She ugly"
"I don't know how to fight"
Sexuality
"An now when I dream, I dream of Shug Avery."
"I know what he doing to me he done to Shug Avery and maybe she like it. I put my arm around him,"
"I just be thankful to lay eyes on her"