How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
We lived in Joby's cabin then, with a red quilt nailed by one edge to a rafter and hanging down to make two rooms. (3.1.10)
After the big, beautiful house burns down on the plantation, everybody has to move into the slaves' cabins. Of course, Joby is used to having a rustic little cabin with a blanket for a wall, but the Sartoris family sees it as a huge hardship when they have to live that way.
Quote #8
"You tell them n*****s to send Loosh to you and you tell him to get that chest and them mules and then you whup him!" (3.1.18)
Here goes Louvinia again, acting like she herself isn't a slave. She is angry that the Union soldiers have taken Loosh, the silver, and the mules, and tells Granny to go get all of it back. Maybe she is afraid of change, or maybe she thinks that life would be worse where she isn't the top slave, but she's part of keeping the racial order the way it is.
Quote #9
It was as if…the railroad, the rushing locomotive which [Ringo] hoped to see symbolized it—the motion, the impulse to move which had already seethed to a head among his people, darker than themselves, reasonless, following and seeking a delusion, a dream, a bright shape which they could not know since there was nothing in their heritage, nothing in the memory even of the old men to tell the others, "This is what we will find".... (3.1.26)
The desire for freedom, even for people who have not known freedom in many, many generations, is compared to the railroad in this passage. The train is unstoppable, strong, and fast, just like the need to break free from slavery that the many people headed north feel.