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"Perhaps she was both, both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death-all the opposites contained and reconciled in her (348)." This quote from Paule Marshall's article "To Da-Duh, In Memoriam" synthesizes one of the recurring themes t ....

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.... her grandmother's attire and appearance when she and her family first arrive in Barbados. Marshall describes these two properties with this quote: "…the light in the long severe old-fashioned white dress she wore which brought the sense of a past that was still alive in our bustling present and in the snatch of white at her eye; the darkness in her black high-top shoes and in her face which was visible now that she was closer (349)". In this description, Marshall creates a vivid imagery for the reader. As simple as Da-Duh's attire and appearance was, it was just as complex. The whiteness and purity of her dress gives the reader a sense of the "goo ....