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- Mrs. Rigsby
- I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and attended the University of Missouri at Columbia for my undergrad. I have a Masters in Elementary Education from Regis. I come from a family with four kids. My sister is a teacher in Chicago. One of my brothers lives here and the other one lives in Chicago. I moved here because my husband loved Colorado and I loved him. As it turns out,I love Colorado as well.
In Isabel's mind, freedom looks like the best thing ever. She figures once she gets that, she can find Ruth. She tried to get freedom, but she didn't get the credit or reward for it. Isabel has tried so hard, she ended up getting a scar on her face. If she had one wish, I am sure that her wish would be freedom.
ReplyDeleteAnother way to think about it is that when she was going to be branded because she wanted freedom, she saw her momma and poppa. Maybe they represent her freedom (besides the seeds). On pg. 148 it says "My momma and poppa appeared from the shadows. They flew to me and wrapped their arms around me and cooled my face with their ghost tears."
~Tabitha
I think that freedom in Isabel's mind is sailing across the river and back into Rode Island. She has been a slave for her whole life and freedom to her looks like heven. She is jelous of Curzon and all of the other slaves that might have dissapeared. She is very happy to work for Lady Seymore because she gives her a little more freedom then the Locktons. She also gets a decent bed and is not treated like crap.
ReplyDeleteIn Isabel’s mind freedom is sailing back to her home and breaking free of the “chains” of New York. I think she wants to go live with her family again and live there until she dies. She would die peacefully and happily knowing that Ruth was safe where ever she was. She really does not have very high expectations; she just wants the life of you and me. Also, she wants to forget that she ever saw and heard the men talking about the bribes to the American soldiers to join the loyalists. That is what Isabel’s freedom looks like.
ReplyDeleteSam
Isabel thought of freedom is going back to Rhode Island and living on like nothing has happened. She lives in a dream, she thinks one day that the world will become free. freedom is like a man showing up at your door and giving you a pie to Isabel. Isabel takes Lady Seymour for granted, she has never known pain. her old master was nice, and even thought her how to read and write. freedom looks like a fresh baked apple pie, right in front of your face, taunting you. she wants it so bad she dreams about it.
ReplyDeleteReily
I agree with Louis and Tabi. Freedom does look like the best thing that will ever happen to Isabel. I feel so sorry for what happened to Ruth. Now, freedom is the only thing that will reunite them.
ReplyDeleteAll through the book, Isabel has been wishing for freedom. Whether it was for her, or for all African Americans.
"The ghosts couldn't cross the water to help him so he had to make his own way in a strange place, sometimes with an iron collar around his neck." -pg 25
Once sold or stolen, slaves are goners. That's kind of why Isabel is so desperate for freedom- she can reunite with her ancestors.
Avery
In Isabel's mind, freedom is going home. She would only have to work for herself. There wouldn't be any "Do this, do that." Punishments, like whips, or branding, wouldn't be there. She would make the food that she knows how to make at her own pace. On page 186, it says, "I did as she ordered and ruined two perfectly fine patches of dough. I threw them down the privy and baked corn bread deep into the night for that was the one thing my hands new how to bake." Freedom also meant she could find Ruth. To get to freedom though, she has to either join the Rebels, or the British. The British supply freedom for slaves of rebels, but not for rebels. The rebels want freedom for themselves, but not the slaves. Therefore, she is very confuseed on which side to take. On page 182 it says, "He couldn't take me. He would not. I was chained between two nations."
ReplyDelete~Devon
Freedom seems like home and family to Isabel. She would do anything for it, because it would mean that she wouldn't be a slave anymore, and that she could be with Ruth. She wants to be independant and she wants to be herself. "I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back as straight as an arrow. This mark stands for Isabel." Freedom would mean being united with what little she has of her family. Freedom would mean everything to Isabel, and it would make a large impact on her life if she got it.
ReplyDelete~Camryn