chain

linda gets mad when the woman puts the necklace on her daughter because the necklace was a gold chain. she did not want her to feel any such chain. she wanted her to have as much of a normal childhood as she could. much like linda did. the significance of the gold chain is that even if you are a slave and your master is very nice it is still slavery, and it is still very bad. "gold" or not slavery is still one of the worst things that has happened to our country, even if u try to mask it with gold. i liked this part of the book because i thought that this connection between the necklace and chains was a very good one. i especially liked the reference to gold because i felt like that was really important for it to be said from a slaves perspective that it doesn't matter if your master is nice or not being someone's property is the ultimate demoralization a person can have.