How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I was overjoyed; I did not even mind when I discovered that the gold pieces I had scrambled for were brass pocket tokens advertising a certain make of automobile. (1.102)
Early in the novel, the narrator is so happy to have received the presents from the white men that, at least temporarily, he forgives them for subjecting him to the battle royal and for gaining pleasure from watching him get electrocuted.
Quote #5
"To Whom It May Concern," I intoned. "Keep This N*****-Boy Running." (1.105)
The narrator dreams that the scholarship to the college is really another way for white people to keep him running in place, that a college education won't actually change his lot in life.
Quote #6
Then in my mind's eye I see the bronze statue of the college Founder, the cold Father symbol, his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil that flutters in hard, metallic folds above the face of a kneeling slave; and I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding. (2.3)
The narrator uses a powerful metaphor that questions the supposed intentions behind the college education, which is supposed to provide racial uplift, but which may simply be another means to keep black people more firmly enslaved.