Powerful Language
Published on Sep 20, 2017
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Yes, for a long time after losing my faith, I went on, making believe.(55)
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And before I could even think what she was talking about, I said, "It isn't true, Mama, it isn't true."(306)
N.S.
"It's as if I am so deep inside myself, I can't come to the surface to be with anyone" (241). - A.P.
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From those seeds of destruction, we would soon- very soon- harvest our freedom. (168)
A.D.
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Dede took the chimney off the lamp, and with a trembling hand, fed the letter to the flame (83). R.N.
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My voice was as sure and commanding as his. "You've lost my respect." (89) A.Patel
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She would suffer whatever they suffered. If they died, she would not want to go on living without them. (193) S.S.
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"I felt my spirit snapping loose, soaring above my body and looking down at the scene" (255). S.Z.
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I'm tempted to curl up in the corner like a hurt animal, whimpering, wanting to be safe. (227) Matt S.
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"I don't play," [Dede] says rather more meekly than she intends. "I just watch." (70)
I.K.
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"We let in only those we knew had come to the table for salvation, not sacrilege." (207) K.B.
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"...they lived at a distance now, so I hid the sun with a finger and chose not to see the light all around me." (152)
B.A.
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"The truth was the devil was the devil even in a halo." (219) S.A.
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"Take me instead, I'll be your sacrificial lamb" (203) N.R
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If our souls could go to eternal glory, our hardworking motherbodies surely deserved more. (160) M.S
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"We've traveled almost the full length of the island and can report that every corner of it is wet, every river overflows its banks, every rain barrel is filled to the brim, every wall washed clean of writing no one knows how to read anyways" (117) A.B.
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"Build your house upon a rock, He said, do my will. And though the rain fall and the floods come and the winds blow, the good wife's house will stand" (148). T.J.
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"Bang-bang-bang, their father likes to joke, aiming a finger pistol at each one, as if he were shooting them, not boasting about having sired them" (8) Upama R.
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"Dede goes on elaborating the root system of her anacahuita tree, shading the branches,and then for the fun of it, opening and closing the flap of the envelope to watch the tree come apart and then back together again" (4) Anika G.
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"It was as if the three fates were approaching, their scissors poised to snip the knot that was keeping Dede's life from falling apart." (Alvarez 175). S.R.
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"His hands gripped his cane until his knuckles whitened. 'Cosas de los hombres,' he said. Things a man does" (92). R.C...The Great
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"And it was disturbing to see-- among the established plantings-- the raw brown earth like a wound in the ground." (Alvarez 179) I.L.
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"As the road darkened, the beams of our headlights filled with hundreds of blinded moths. Where they hit the windshield, they left blurry marks, until it seemed like I was looking at the world through a curtain of tears" (26) I.C
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"...the men and my Nelson, had appeared on the latest list of three hundred and seventy-two detained...And on the third day, He rose again."
( 204 ) D. G.
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"I was sick sometimes with fear for them, but they lived at a distance now, so I hid the sun with a finger and chose not to see the light all around me" (152) T.O.J.
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"I rushed back into the house, into our bedroom, threw open the closet, yanked my black dress off its hanger, ripping the right sleeve, waking Jaimito with my piteous crying" (305) B.B.
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"But all I hear is my own breathing and the blessed silence of those cool, clear nights under the anacahuita tree before anyone breathes a word of the future" (321). J.M.
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"You could not chase after a boy with your machete and enter the kingdom of heaven" (164). A.R.
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"Dede took the chimney off the lamp, and with a trembling hand, fed the letter to the flame. The paper lit up. Ashes fluttered like moths, and Dede ground them to dust on the floor," (Alvarez 83). R.H.
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