How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. (10.1)
These are the streets that Christmas travels his entire life, in and out of loneliness.
Quote #5
But there was too much running with him, stride for stride with him. Not pursuers: but himself: years, acts, deeds omitted and committed, keeping pace with him, stride for stride, breath for breath, thud for thud of the heart, using a single heart. (15.10)
If Christmas is being pursued by anyone, it's himself, and his obsession with his racial origins.
Quote #6
But it still lingers about her and about the place: something dark and outlandish and threatful, even though she is but a woman and but the descendant of them whom the ancestors of the town had reason (or thought that they had) to hate and dread. (2.37)
Joanna Burden's ancestors, with their progressive racial views, cause her to become the town outcast.