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1 . As I passed the wreck of the old meeting house , where , before Nat Turner 's time , the slaves had been allowed to meet for worship , I seemed to hear my father 's voice come from it , bidding me not to tarry till I reached freedom or the grave

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

This pertains to one of the climatic scenes in the plantation when Linda undergoes a nostalgic journey to familiar places that she will leave behind before making her escape

. She took a visit to her parents ' grave to pray and ask for guidance and support . And true enough , she heard his father 's voice telling her to remain steadfast in her pursuit for freedom . This gave her renewed strength and hope in her endeavor

2 . Shadows present , foreshadowing deeper shadows to come

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

This forms part of passage that sets the disposition and atmosphere of the story which is essentially gloomy and gray . Melville initially created the impression that the ideas that one will encounter are not what necessarily what they seem . It will be gray meaning it does not clearly delineate if something is absolutely right or wrong or good or bad . There are not straight easy answers for the issues that will come

3 . I could make any one 's hair rise , and their teeth chatter , if I should only tell what I 've seen and been knowing to , here , -...

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