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Quotes From The Mom Of Handful
Some qualities that I admired from Handful was that she was feisty never giving up easily she was so determined and intelligent since the beginning when Sarah gets handful as her birthday present, they develop a friendship and she recognizes that the only way that handful can feel free is by learning how to read and write. She decides to teach her even though she knows it's against the law for a slave to read and write.
Sarah is denied by her father the aspiration of becoming a lawyer since she lived in a time period where women weren't allowed the right to practice law they didn't had that much power they believed their roles was to take care of household work and nothing more than that. Sarah was always been compared to her brothers when it came to education. Sarah always struggled with the dictates of her family when she had to see for herself what slaves had to go through like getting sent to the workhouse just like handful was sent. Seeing it in society when their was a revolt going on in the streets and seeing a little girl with her vegetables in her hand running away from the militia.
The author also uses allot of symbolism from the beginning of the book like the spirit tree that the mom of handful tells her to put her spirits in the tree so they could be safe. Its also important to handful as it is for the mom …show more content…
The book also uses allot of physical objects that all serve a purpose to represent something about the character. Like for instance, the quilts that Charlotte the mom of handful use to make that all represented her life. In particular the quilt that she was making before she went missing that handful found. In the quilt every square sewn depicted the life story of Charlotte. Which actually helped her find Mr.Vesey the person that knew what had happened to her
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