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Practice identifying motif!

Read the passage below. Then answer the motif questions about it in the padlet below!

“We lived on a big piece of ground with two big chinaberry trees shading the front gate and Cape jasmine bushes with hundreds of blooms on either side of the walks. I loved the fleshy, white, fragrant blooms as a child […] When I got to New York and found out that people called them gardenias, and that the flowers cost a dollar each, I was impressed. The home folks laughed when I went back down there and told them. A dollar for a Cape jasmine bloom! Folks up north there must be crazy.

There were plenty of orange, grapefruit, tangerine, guavas and other fruits in our yard. We had a five-acre garden with things to eat growing in it, and so we were never hungry. We had chicken on the table often; home-cured meat, and all the eggs we wanted. It was a common thing for us smaller children to fill the iron tea-kettle full of eggs and boil them, and lay around in the yard and eat them until we were full. Any left-over boiled eggs could always be used for missiles. There was plenty of fish in the lakes around the town, and so we had all that we wanted. But beef stew was something rare. We were all very happy whenever Papa went to Orlando and brought back something delicious like beef-stew. In the same way, we treasured an apple. We had oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit to use as handgrenades on the neighbors’ children. But apples were something rare. They came from way up north…”

-Zora Neale Hurston

Now that you have the hang of it - look at the sample passage attached below. Identify important power words and motifs in the passage. Then, write an analysis paragraph explaining how the motif shows an important subconscious message in the passage! There's a paragraph template in google classroom!