- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
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- Henry IV, Part 2
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As Miss Moore gathers the neighborhood children outside and begins one of her lectures, Sylvia thinks about her frustration with being forced to attend lessons in the middle of the summer. This quote reiterates Sylvia’s hatred of Miss Moore as identity-based, again referring to her “nappy” hair (a derogatory, racially charged term for tightly coiled natural hair) and college education. Sylvia finds Miss Moore pretentious and incompatible with her idea of how a Black woman should look and act, which causes her to rebel against Miss Moore’s attempts to teach. In this way, Sylvia’s anger prevents her from learning new…