How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
He read the play, shivering at his high window, with amusement and amazement. Hardly a word was true. In it, he was a Greek god, fierce in countenance and in battle, an avatar of furious vengeance, determined to wreak murder on the slavers. He was uneducated and single of purpose. (22.3)
Reading a play about his life by Alphonse de Lamartine, Toussaint finds a bunch of lies. And we're talking a bunch. He thinks that literature is often all made up, even if it's based on truth. We might say that about the book we're reading, too. Sure, it's based on real events like the earthquake and Haitian Revolution, but the story itself is completely made up.