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Q Please post one quotation and your response about the significance and meaning to the quotation for at least two of the three topics below. Plan on writing about 3-4 sentences for each. Once you have posted, you will see your classmates' posts; in order to get full points, you must have two replies to classmates (2-4 sentences each). In your replies, you should try to build on, ask questions about, or complicate what your classmates wrote. This assignment is meant to help you gather quotations and ideas for your homework assignment where you will need four quotations for each of the topic below. That homework will in turn prepare you for the Timed Writing #1. The idea is for you give and get; that is, offer something for your classmates and get some ideas and quotations in return. Topic #1: Being weighed down and flight (focus on Macon Jr. and Milkman). Topic #2: Guitar’s concern with social justice versus Milkman’s. Topic #3: Women and how they are affected by the flight of male characters.

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1. “Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy Salt Lake of Utah is all they have of the sea and that they must content themselves with bank, shore, and beach because they cannot claim a coast. And having none, seldom dream of flight. But the people living in the Great Lakes region are confused by their place on the country’s edge—an edge that is border but not coast. They seem to be able to live a long time believing, as coastal people do, that they are at the frontier where final exit and total escape are the only journeys left.