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This drives Todd mad and causes him to feel the need to prove his dominance over him. "'Straighten your cap!' Todd said loudly" (35).

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This drives Todd mad and causes him to feel the need to prove his dominance over him. "'Straighten your cap!' Todd said loudly" (35).

• This drives Todd mad and causes him to feel the need to prove his dominance over him. In the text, it says, "'Straighten your cap!' Todd said loudly" (35).

• This drives Todd mad and causes him to feel the need to prove his dominance over him. One way that Todd asserts his authority is by raising his voice: "'Straighten your cap!' Todd said loudly" (35).

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Hurston describes Janie's hair as “the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume.”

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Hurston describes Janie's hair as “the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume.”

• Hurston describes Janie's hair as a “great rope... swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume” (100).

• Zora Neale Hurston described Janie's hair as if it was “the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume” (100).

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The first letters are Celestial writing to Roy during his first month in prison even though he cannot read or write back to her yet: "Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again. Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I’m so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling" (47).

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The first letters are Celestial writing to Roy during his first month in prison even though he cannot read or write back to her yet: "Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again. Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I’m so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling" (47).

• Initially, Celestial writes to Roy, "Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again. Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I’m so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling" (47). She writes letters to him in prison even though he cannot read or write back to her yet.

• In Celestial's first letters to Roy, she hints at how important physical interaction is to her: "Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I’m so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling" (47).

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The father is driven by his love for his son, and the need to protect and care for him. They are able to hold onto what makes them human, their passion, hope, and will to live. Their ¨fire¨ is what sets them apart from others who have lost their way of life in the midst of an apocalypse.

First, Cormac McCarthy writes “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” He uses this quote to show a beacon of hope throughout the book.

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The father is driven by his love for his son, and the need to protect and care for him. They are able to hold onto what makes them human, their passion, hope, and will to live. Their ¨fire¨ is what sets them apart from others who have lost their way of life in the midst of an apocalypse.

First, Cormac McCarthy writes “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” He uses this quote to show a beacon of hope throughout the book.

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  hidden.” This shows how fire is a beacon of hope throughout the book.

• First, McCarthy uses fire as a symbol of hope. He writes, “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” In this instance, fire represents hope because McCarthy repeatedly describes it as minuscule; hope is not an overpowering emotion.

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