Coming of Age in Mississippi | Questions and Answers Childhood: Chapters 1 – 9
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1. Anne Moody begins her memoir by outlining black life on a white-owned plantation in the South. What themes does she introduce in chapter one, and how do they recur throughout the ensuing chapters in “Childhood,” the first section of her memoir?
2. Why does Mama cry whenever she is expecting a baby?
3. Essie Mae has a vivid nightmare about how the sun will swallow up her family or kill them of heatstroke while they are working in the fields. How might this dream be interpreted as an observation about farm labor and its role in subjugating black families?...
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