How we cite our quotes: (Part.Paragraph)
Quote #7
In a small place, people cultivate small events. The small event is isolated, blown up, turned over and over, and then absorbed into the everyday. (3.2)
Those of us who live in wealthy countries might not realize how different it is to live in a small, isolated place. The surroundings never change, the people never change, and events from the past don't seem so very far away at all. Then again, if you're from a small rural community, you might kind of know what this is like.
Quote #8
The people in a small place cannot give an exact account, a complete account, of themselves. The people in a small place cannot give an exact account, a complete account of events. (3.3)
Essentially, here the narrator is saying that people who live in places like Antigua lack the perspective needed to fully understand themselves or their place in the world.
Quote #9
To the people in a small place, the division of Time into the Past, the Present, and the Future does not exist. An event that occurred one hundred years ago might be as vivid to them as if it were happening at this very moment. (3.3)
Whoa—now this one is a mind-bender. A lot has happened over the last hundred years in Antigua, not least of which is its liberation from England. And for the Antiguan people, this all blurs together.