Read chapters 16-17
Prep the following passage for a commentary.
"You outa meet mah brother. He's real smart. Got dead straight hair. Dey made him uh delegate tuh de Sunday School Convention and he read uh paper on Booker T. Washington and tore him tuh pieces!"
"Booker T.? He wuz a great man, wasn't he?"
"'Sposed tuh be. All he ever done was cut de monkey for white folks. So dey pomped him up. But you know whut de ole folks say 'de higher de monkey climbs de mo' he show his behind' so dat's de way it wuz wid Booker T. Mah brother hit 'im every time dey give 'im chance tuh speak."
"Ah was raised on de notion dat he wuz uh great big man," was all that Janie knew to say.
"He didn't do nothin' but hold us back - talkin' 'bout work when de race ain't never done nothin' else. He wuz uh enemy tuh us, dat's whut. He wuz uh whit folk's nigger."
According to all Janie had been taught this was sacrilege so she sat without speaking at all.
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