Comparative Flashcards

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What 3 points

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Oppression and power
Role of silence and complicity
Hope and resistance

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Oppression and power quotes

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“What good is her minding? she has a fortune and an old man to mind her.”
“Marriage is not love, but of land and cattle and the passing down or a name”
“Please help me mister”
“You eat when we say you eat, you piss when we say you piss. You shit when we say you shit”
“These walls are funny, first you hate them then you get used to them. Enough time passes you get so you depend on them”

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Role of silence and complicity

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“this is no world for the young, no world for the gentle heart”
“We have five daughters to feed. Do you want to bring trouble to us all?”
“That’s the way it is, that’s the way it’s always been”

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Hope and Resistance

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“he kept going, thinking of his own mother, and that Christmas was upon them”
“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I hope.

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