Topic i chose: On. p.193, Grant tells Jefferson that “we are […] all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we […] decide to become something else” (Gaines 193). Referring to this visual metaphor, which characters in the novel (choose at least three) are like pieces of “drifting wood”? Use ample details from the text to develop your answer. Needs two sources, the primary source is the literature itself; secondary sources include criticism written about the primary source. 5-6 quotes from secondary sources.
