Laurie Halse's Chains Quotes

In the historical novel Chains by Laurie Anderson the author tells the story of a young girl named Isabelle who is purchased into slavery. Also, in the poem “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth” by Phillis Wheatley another young girl is purchased into slavery. Both girls, Isabelle and Phillis each have similarities they as they go through the treacherous path slavery brings. Even though Isabelle and Phillis Wheatley were both slaves with gruesome lives, they have many differences as well.

To start with, Isabel and Curzon both had scars from a horrific event in their lives. Isabel has though to escape from her owner, Madam Lockton, from when she was sold to her. This time, she tried to escape but failed. Madam Lockton found where she was and took her to prison, where she would be trialled three days later. “‘You tried to run away and were beaten in the attempt.’”(Anderson 151). She was beaten a lot after she got captured and also got a punishment from the court. Her punishment was to be branded with the letter I. Every Time she would feel the cheek, she would remember the pain she felt, which

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Chains, Anderson uses fictional characters to describe real life situations that some may have faced during the Revolutionary War. All these characters in the story are fighting for the same thing, freedom. The definition of freedom, however, varies for multiple characters in the story. Curzon, an African-American slave who sides with the rebels, is fighting with “my master and those he serves, the rebels, the Congress. We’re fighting for freedom from people like Lockton [a loyalist].” (p. 39) The main character of the story Isabel meets another African-American slave at a well who was taught that “if the British win, we’ll all be free.” (p. 165) For the other races

When Isabel exchanges information with the Patriot soldiers and explains what she wants in return for the information, her actions and speech reveal she is determined to return home free. During her conversation with the Patriots Isabel says, “ I am in a position to trade with you sir… My sister and I were wrongfully taken from Rhode Island, and I mean to get us back there” (pg. 102). After overhearing Master Lockton’s plans against George Washington, Isabel decides to take the list of names of those involved in the plan to the Patriot soldiers because she was told they could help set her free. Unlike in the beginning when she feels hopeless and scared after being sold to be a slave again, Isabel has changed and is now determined to seek the freedom that was promised to her after the death of her former

The rebellion will weather like a vine cut off at it’s route. Cut off a vine and it will grow back, the mayor said. You must pull it out of the ground and burn it to ensure it is dead.“(Gold Buttons, and The Major 89). The Patriots think that way and the Loyalists think another but how do the slaves think of Freedom and Liberty. Isabel a slave in the book would consider freedom as not being a slave. She has been in bondage her entire life, so freedom to her is being considered a person, not property. Also being able to go find Ruth and to live and travel wherever she wants, to say whatever she wants to say. I think Isabel considers being free, having no chains holding her down, and having the same rights as a white man. I know this because Isabel states in the book chains,” If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? And if a girl wants to seek her freedom, how could she do a fool-headed thing? Especially a girl trapped in New York? Best thing would be to break into the desk of a British commander steal a pass and forge her name and his name on it and act free. And pigs were likely to fly, Plus, that girl seeking freedom would have to walk. “(Isabel 272) These quotes show what Liberty means the different types of people in the book Chains. Freedom and Liberty can make people do impossible things like having farmers and slaves fight against the strongest army that has never lost a battle. Freedom and Liberty is one crazy

The book Chains takes place during the Revolutionary War and is set in colonial New York. The main character, Isabel, is a slave for a Loyalist family. She and her sister were sold to them after her mother and her owner pass away. She makes friends with another slave, Curzon Bellingham, and is told to spy on her influential master. She operates in secret and constantly fears her owner, Madam Lockton, will catch her. She faces many troubles throughout the book, including her five year old sister being sold to an owner in another country. The book’s title signifies Isabel’s struggle with her independent soul being chained down by the others around her.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”- Nelson Mandela. The quote is describing how freedom is not only being out of chains but to be able to be in society with respect from all. Freedom can also mean a lot of different things depending on the person. For example to a teenager freedom could mean them getting out from under their parents supervision or parental control. But, freedom to an adult that works everyday of the week, their freedom can be, not have to work on the weekends, which gives them their freedom to do anything they want to do. In the slave narrative Incidents of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs about her life as a slave, freedom means Linda (aka Harriet Jacobs) being free from slavery, being away from Dr. Flint, and to have her family free with her. She tries to achieve her freedom in many different ways. She confesses to Mrs. Flint about the advances Dr. Flint makes towards her, she falls in with a free black man, and gets pregnant by Mr. Sands. She uses these to achieve her freedom from Dr. Flint’s advances. She also achieves her freedom by running away to her grandmother’s attic, and running away to the North. Linda also achieves her freedom when Dr. Flint had died and when Mrs. Bruce being her savior.

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as shown on pg 246, “In this quote she clearly states that she dislikes her lifestyle but finds no other way to escape this punishment then to run away. but she doesn’t only suffer from physical chains. Her mental chains affect her even deeper than her physical chains. She is bounded by her hope to find her sister Ruth who was sold away, evident on pg 132.” “She’s(Ruth) gone,’ Becky said ...’Where’...Sold ”. She also has a specific sense of freedom her from others. So even when she gets hurt over and over again Isabel takes initiative for her freedom. She spies for the rebel group, only to be betrayed by one of the higher-ups. Which later causes her to join the British cause who assured her freedom but is revealed to only take rebel slaves. She was betrayed twice and hurt more times then to be counted but yet she doesn’t give up that sense of freedom. She tries her

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In the book the Glass Castle it seems like the author Jeannette Walls is the only one in the family that still has hope and faith in her father. On page 79 the Father tells Jeanette, “There are times when I think that you’re the only one around who still has faith in me”(Walls 79). When I read this line I noticed that the dad is very focused on his mission to find gold even though he might know that his family might be mad at him because he isn’t making any money because he quit his job. Also this quote is important because it shows that the Father has trust in Jeannette and he thinks that she is the only one that is truthful and agrees with him all the time, unlike the rest of the family how they have kind of lost hope on his big idea that

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Harriet Jacob was the first African American women to have authored a slave narrative in the United States and was instinctive into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina. Living a good life with her skilled carpentered father and her mother, Jacob didn’t much of being a slave. However, when her mother had passed away, Jacob and her father were reassigned to a different slave owner were her life as a women slave began. Because of this change, she fled to New York where she started working in the Anti-Slavery movement. During this period, she focused more on her family then she did the issue of slavery. Family is an emotional anchor in the Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl because Linda was devoted to her children. She uses symbolism, imagery, and allegory because she wants to demonstrate what families should be like.

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