QUESTION
Discussion on Intergrating Quotes
Write a few sentences (about 100 words) integrating a quote from any of the articles that you will be using in your paper. Be sure to connect your quote to the rest of your sentences. You can do this via signal phrases (“Smith argues” OR “According to Smith,” etc) or by integrating your quote as it grammatically fits into your sentence. Document your quote by using the MLA in-text citation guidelines you have studied in this lesson.
Here is an example to help guide your response:
John: Hi everyone,
Here is my paragraph with the quotes I integrated into it:
On Sula’s deathbed, she expresses to Nel her thoughts about the lifestyles and conditions of the women in Medallion. “You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I am not living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.” Even though Nel wants Sula to settle down and have children, Sula takes pride in her choice not to conform. “Dying just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump and I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” Sula says everybody’s life is a journey to death, yet she believes her course to be nobler than that of her peers. She knows she is living her authentic self, and she does not live for appearances.
1 PARAGRAPH NOT MORE; USE THE BELOW SOURCES
Dhavaleswarapu, Ratna. “The Dialectics of Female Friendship in Toni Morrison"s Sula,” An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2016, pp. 95-104.
Haque, Farhana. “Toni Morison's Sula Represents the Motherhood, Friendship and Love: A Study of Sula and Nel's Friendship, Life's Struggle and Estrangement from Childhood to Adulthood,” International Journal of Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 5, No. 6, 2016, pp. 5-16.
Manki, Azhar Hameed. “Black Female Masculinity in Toni Morrison's Sula,” Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2020, pp. 40-49.
Morrison, T. (1973). Sula. London: Vintage.
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Answer
Discussion on Integrating Quotes
Brought up by mothers who did not love and understand them, Nel and Sula found comfort in their friendship, which empowers them in several ways. According to Dhavaleswarapu, "the bonding they nurture, helps them establish a specific space for themselves, to look inward and strengthen each other" (98). Because of the friendship, Nel and Sula discovered new things and new capabilities, leading them into new discoveries. For instance, Nel found her voice, which helped her nurture leadership skills while Sula learned to use her wildness for their good and protection. The bond between them was so strong that "a compliment to one was a compliment to the other, and cruelty to one was a challenge to the other" (Morrison 83). As they look back at their female relatives' lives, they comprehend the type of life that society expects them to lead as black women. But through the strong bond they share, Nel and Sula boldly defy the limitations and overcome the undermining expectations of black women in a patriarchal society as they find total worth in each other.
References
Dhavaleswarapu, Ratna. “The Dialectics of Female Friendship in Toni Morrison"s Sula,” An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2016, pp. 95-104.
Morrison, Toni. Sula. 1973, London: Vintage.