Noticing Sentences

Perception/ Descriptions The young handsome white guys are always fun They're the ones who are naturally given things, who find that gates swing open before they touch them. These guys take advantage. Sometimes they don't know they're doing it. Most of the time they do. They are harder to erase because they like their lives. but I stay in there anyway, because I like their lives, too. p28-29 It takes me about two periods in school to realize she's one of the only black girls in class-- a point brought home in third-period history, when both the teacher and other students keep looking at her when they're talking about Selma, as if her skin colors makes her an expert on something that happened decades before she was born. I would guess they don't even realize they're doing it-- when people are thinking about a difference, their eyes will usually wander to someone they think embodies the difference. p42 Gwen's parents are there, as well a...

Gender Well, and Cansrel had loved attention, Fire thought to herself dryly. More to the point, he had been a man. Cansrel had not had her problems. p181 Expectations It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. how unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers. p197-198 "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It all amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they paid a fortune." p205 "It's thanks to them we know the uses for all the strange herbs that grow in the crevices and caves at the edges of the kingdom. Our medicines to stop bleeding and keep wounds from festering and kill tumors and bind bones together and do just about everything else came from their experiments. Of course, they also di...