How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Even in church, folks kept to their own. Among the Catholics, the Austrians went to Mass at eight o'clock, Italians at nine o'clock, and Irish at ten o'clock. Services were divided up similarly among the Lutherans and Methodists. (22.21)
Not even religion can bring people together in Manifest. Instead, everything is divided neatly by nationality and denomination. Where else do we see this kind of division in the town?
Quote #8
Places where people who have no home, no money, no hope gather together of an evening to share a fire and maybe some beans and coffee. […] Where, for a time, they might not feel quite so alone. (33.6)
Abilene sure likes hanging out with the homeless people by the train tracks. And so does Shady, as we later find out. Do they feel the same sense of loneliness that the homeless people do?
Quote #9
"Who would dare think the outcast and abandoned can find a home? […] Pah. What makes us think any of this could be true? And yet all of us, we participate in this myth, we create it, perpetuate it." (35.12)
Miss Sadie is understandably bitter. So far, nothing in her life has really worked out the way she wanted. Does she ever find a true home in Manifest?