For each of those quotations, you will first identify the author, title, and year of publication.

For each of those quotations, you will first identify the author, title, and year of publication. Then, in two to three complete sentences, you will explain the quotation’s significance in terms of a larger theme developed in the text.

1. He crept an inch or two toward her, all that he was able, and she saw his horribly swollen neck and his one open eye shining with hope. She could scarcely reach the chinaberry tree, where she waited in the growing heat while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye which must know by now that she knew.

2. I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.

3. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

4. Clarke spoke for the first time. Tain’t no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it ain’t in ‘im. There’s plenty men dat takes a wife lak dey do a joint uh sugar-cane. It’s round, juicy an’ sweet when dey gits it. But dey squeeze an’ grind, squeeze an’ grind an’ wring tell dey is wring every drop uh pleasure dat’s in ’em out. Dey knows whut dey is doin’ while dey is at it, an’ hates theirselves fuh it but they keeps on hangin’ after huh tell she’s empty. Den dey hates huh fuh bein’ a cane-chew an’ in de way.

5. If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,

Please let me know beforehand,

And I will come out to meet you

As far as Cho-fu-Sa.

6. Just water, baby, to chase it! Now don’t get worried, your sister hasn’t turned into a drunkard, she’s just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty! You sit down now, and explain this place to me! What are you doing in a place like this?

7. Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

8. Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called The Tarantula Arms! Yes, a big spider! That’s where I brought my victims.

9. It seemed a long time before Obadiah’s mother spoke. When she did there were no tears, no reproaches; but there was a raging fury in her voice as she lashed out. Git outen mah feather baid, Jim Hammer, an’ outen mah house, an don’ nevah stop thankin’ you Jesus he done gib you dat black face.

10. I saw the whole of Baltimore

     From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

     That’s all that I remember.