How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"They look at you the way you look at them," she told me bluntly. "You don't know who those children are. Maybe they're nasty and silly and hateful. Maybe not. You don't know what happens to them when they go home. You don't know their daddies or mamas, who their people are. why they do things, or what they're scared of. You think because they wear different clothes than you and go by so fast, they're rich and cruel and thinking terrible things about you. Could be they're looking at you sitting up here eating blackberries and looking at them like they're spit on a stove—could be they're jealous of you, hungry for what you got, afraid of what you would do if they ever stepped in the yard." (18.81)
Remember how Bone feels when Shannon uses the N-word? Well, maybe she could use some of that empathy right about now. Does what Raylene says expand how we're supposed to think about that empathy?