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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the scene with Nellie running through the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the scene with Nellie running through the wild flowers?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[what about the union states that are in the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what about the union states that are in the story?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[well in the story it would tell you that nelly was always twisting her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[well in the story it would tell you that nelly was always twisting her braids so mainly that was her habit.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This novel takes place during the first 6 months of Reconstruction, in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This novel takes place during the first 6 months of Reconstruction, in the summer and fall of 1965.  The weather as portrayed by Robinet is accurate for Georgia - warm and humid.  As the story begins, the weather is comforting, and the environment full of new life.  However, as the story continues, and as the summer transitions into fall, the heat becomes overwhelming and the vegetation begins to wither.  This is symbolic of the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was the weather like in the book &quot;Forty Acres and a Mule&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was the weather like in the book &quot;Forty Acres and a Mule&quot;?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nelly's most conspicuous habit is that she twists her braids.  She...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nelly's most conspicuous habit is that she twists her braids.  She wears her hair in six long braids, and when she is thinking, or speaking - just anytime really - she takes one or another of them in her hand and twists it.  Nelly is only eight years old when she leaves the plantation with Pascal and Gideon after the war.  At first she is frightened and timid, but she soon begins to develop as a character, taking on responsibilities like...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are Nelly's habits in &quot;Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are Nelly's habits in &quot;Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule&quot;?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mr. Freedman is an easy one, he might represent the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mr. Freedman is an easy one, he might represent the promise/hope/difficulty of being a "Freed Man"

Gideon is a biblical name, in the bible's old testament, Gideon was a hero who listened to God and led a religious war in support of God and against other tribes.

Pascal may refer to Pascal Blaise, who was a child math prodigy who was also a religious philosopher. He was a very smart and wise man.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the signifigance of the names Mr. Freedman, Pascal, and Gideon?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the signifigance of the names Mr. Freedman, Pascal, and Gideon?]]></description>
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