30 POINTS NEED ASAP!! Paragraph 1 
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"things that were common in Her neighborhood, absent in mine"
1.  What are the contrast words in the quote?
Paragraph 2
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"I knew how to scrub floors on my knees and how to wash clothes in our zinc tub, but I had never seen a Hoover vacuum cleaner or an iron that wasn't heated by the fire"
2.  What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 3
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"Part of my pride in working for Her was earning money I could squander: on movies, candy, paddleballs, jacks, ice-cream cones.  But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things- an insurance-policy payment or what was owed to the milkman or iceman."
3.  What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 4
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"They are loved, doted on, protected, and helped.  Fine, and yet..."
4.  What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 5
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"I wanted to refuse, or at least complain, but I was afraid She would fire me and I would lose the freedom the dollar gave me, as well as the standing I had at home-although both were slowly being eroded."
5. What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 6
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"Listen, you don't live there.  You live here"
6. What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 7
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"You are not the work you do, you are the person you are."
7.  What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
Paragraph 8
Quote demonstrating contrast:
"I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, big-hearted and narrow."
8.  What are the contrast clue words in the quote?
9.  Summarize Morrison's essay in three sentences using the following sentence frames:
Morrison valued work because
Morrison valued work, but
Morrison valued work, so