Comparative

Question 1

cook explains her “masters pot is full of the best things” but her pot is “sweet” to her

cook hearing Chapel read:
“all I feel inside is pride, not fear, not yet, just pride, swelling my chest and filling my heart”

LOVE & PRIDE

Answer 1

cook = female voice + more positive perspective/contrasts relentless oppression
cooks for a master as job but family w/ love
strong identity + life enriched by love of fam
loves Chapel -> keeps literacy secret/proud and hopeful
hopeful Chapel can use literacy against his opressors

Question 2

Whitechapel describes himself as:
“boy, mule, nigger, slave”

Family call him
“dog”

IDENTITY-> eroded through language

Answer 2

name central to identity
WC rejects individual name and individ. identity -> adopts a white view of himself -> only a slave
equates slavery with status of animal -> no identity and humanity
fam and oppressors and WC use animalistic terms and internalising white view

Question 3

Whitechapel in forgetting
“memory is pain”
“how long can the master’s daylight continue to rule our nights”

Answer 3

wants reader to empathise w/ slaves stories feel emotional when reading
WC realises obedience to slavery has backfired bc slavery is inherently unjust
reflects on C’s escape and realises other slaves view the world like C.
WC realises slavery is unsustainable bc slaves wont abandon deep desire for freedom -> eventually change must come
DAg. foreshadows inevitable change and forces readers to question current status in society bc despite progress, inequalities remain

Question 4

Whitechapels belief about slavery:
“born owned by another man, like his father before him and like his son would be”

Chapel dreams
“his children would be free”
Whitechapel rebuts with “evidence of 300 years” of history

BELIEFS ABOUT SLAVERY, intergenerational trauma

Answer 4

WC = manifestation of oppressed older generations/resigned to slaverys existence
Pessimistic about its end
Chapel = younger gen. open and hopeful for change
WC = respected patriarch/passing trauma onto future generations
D illuminates intergenerational trauma of people exposed to violence, exploitation, exclusion