The Invention Of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
About the Author
Sue Monk Kidd wrote The Invention Of Wings, The Mermaid Chair, and The Secret Life of Bees. Her books focus on slavery, and the evils of slavery, and this can be seen in The Invention of Wings.
The Invention Of Wings
Summary
Important Pictures
1.Religion
Religion has a major role in this book. The white people use it as an excuse to have slaves, and are very religous. Also Sarah Grimke had some issues with her religion.
2.Slavery
During this time there were slaves, and it was very common for everybody to have a slave in the south. There is arguments about slavery too.
3.Quilts
Handful and her Momma did a lot of sewing and sewed quilts for the white people. Handfuls mom had made her own story quilt and this is important
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Qoutes
1. "To remain silent in the face of evil, is evil in itself"
This is important because this shows how Sarah stood up to slavery, and it is also true because if you do not speak up you continue to let it happen, and so therefor you are apart of it.
2. "My body might be a slave, but not in my mind."
Handful said this because she was a slave, but she was not going to admit that she was. She was on the outside, but she was free in her thoughts, and they could not control her mind.
3. "If you don't know where you are going, know where you came from."
This was important for the slaves, they knew that their history was important to them. Their history was what set them apart from the white people.
Conflict & Resolution
Sarah Grimke was different from her family, she strongly disliked the idea of slavery. She was against it and tried to free her slave, but her mother refused. She decides to teach her slave to read, as a way of freeing her.