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SHORT QUOTE EXERCISE
Now construct your own paragraph using snippets from the following passage, or one suggested by your professor. Also put this source in proper format for inclusion in a list of Works Cited.
This passage from page 66 of Toni Morrison's Beloved (published by Penguin in New York in 1987) describes Paul D's concerns about Beloved, who has just appeared at the Ohio home where Paul, Sethe, and Denver live in the years after the Civil War. In this passage, Paul considers how Beloved differs from the other people he has known who had experienced the horrors of slavery.
This girl Beloved, homeless and without people, beat all, though he couldn't say exactly why, considering the coloredpeople he had run into during the last twenty years. During, before and after the war, he had seen Negroes so stunned, or hungry, or tired or bereft it was a wonder they recalled or said anything. Who, like him, had hidden in caves and fought owls for food; who, like him, stole from pigs; who, like him, slept in trees in the day and walked by night; who, like him had buried themselves in slop and jumped in wells to avoid regulators, raiders, paterollers, veterans, hill men, posses and merrymakers. Once he met a Negro about fourteen years old who lived by himself in the woods and said he couldn't remember living anywhere else. He saw a witless coloredwoman jailed and hanged for stealing ducks she believed were her own babies.
Move. Walk. Run. Hide. Steal and move on. Only once had it been possible for him to stay in one spot-with a woman, or a family-for longer than a few months. That once was almost two years with a weaver lady in Delaware, the meanest place for Negroes he had ever seen outside Pulaski County, Kentucky, and of course the prison camp in Georgia.
From all these Negroes, Beloved was different. Her shining, her new shoes. It bothered him . . . . .
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