Chapter 22:
Christmas Festivities
Summary: Linda described her time in hiding during Christmas in this chapter. She also described all of the festivities and rituals that went on during this time. As to ease any suspicion that Linda was actually hiding out there, her grandmother invited two special guests (the town Constable and a colored free man) into her house to have dinner.
Importance: This chapter was important because Linda described Christmas as being a joyful time for both blacks and whites. Despite the situation, everyone found this time to shed a positive light on their lives.
Connection to Theme: I found the free black man who passed himself off as being white yet another display of the psychological abuses of slavery. Rather than being proud of his black ethnicity, he shunned it and found refuge in pretending to be something other than what he was. When faced with the reality that being who he truely was meant enduring years of persecution and pain, he decided to take the easier route and take sides with, what was through the eyes of the African Americans, the enemy.
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