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A 6 page paper which closely examines what makes this section so important to conveying the novel’s overall themes, and considers dominant tropes and images as well as compares how the urging to claim agency to the women in Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.” No additional sources are used.
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of Part III, ties all of the thematic loose ends together in the deceptively simple sentences, "124 WAS QUIET. Denver, who thought she knew all about silence, was surprised
to learn hunger could do that: quiet you down and wear you out" (Morrison 281). This was America in the year 1873; the slave culture was no longer being
practiced in this post-Civil War era, but it cast a very long shadow. The freed slaves were silenced about the injustices that were inflicted upon them and the women
continued to be held captive by male supremacy and were teaching their daughters a kind of tentative passivity that would continue to keep them imprisoned. The opening section of
Part III personalizes the novels themes and gives the reader a sense of what it feels like to be afraid to step off that porch into an uncertain future.
The dominant tropes and images in this section breathe life into what would otherwise be a repetitive yarn about the supernatural. In a few short pages, it provides the
reader with insight into the conflict between mothers and daughters, the chains that still remained in the aftermath of slavery, and the need for all women, especially of color, to
assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to the African-American womans presumed subjection, and how the daughter sought to free herself from her enslaved mothers
bondage. The gardening, lullabies, and milk imagery denote a mothers nurturing, contrasted by images of hunger and starvation that resulted from the captivity that was slavery and its burdensome
legacy. The description of two laying hens not only signified food (or the lack thereof) but also symbolized the female reproductive system of fertilized eggs. In addition, there
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