H Character Analysis in Homegoing

H is Jo and Anna’s son. After being kidnapped and sold into slavery while pregnant, Anna kills herself. H is born when his master cuts him out of Anna’s stomach. H works on a plantation until he is thirteen, and after the Civil War, he is imprisoned (for supposedly staring at a white woman) and put into the convict leasing system, working in the mines in Alabama. After he is released from prison, he continues to work in the mines as a free laborer, marries a woman named Ethe whom he knew before his imprisonment, and has two children: Willie, who eventually moves up to Harlem, and Hazel.

H Quotes in Homegoing

The Homegoing quotes below are all either spoken by H or refer to H. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Mm-hmm. See, that's what I thought. You was young. Slavery ain’t nothin’ but a dot in your eye, huh? If nobody tell you, I’ma tell you. War may be over but it ain’t ended.

Related Characters: H

Page Number and Citation: 158

Explanation and Analysis:

And if he slammed the book down, then everyone in the room would stare and all they would see would be his skin and his anger, and they’d think they knew something about him, and it would be the same something that had justified putting his great-grandpa H in prison, only it would be different too, less obvious than it once was.

Related Characters: H, Marcus

Page Number and Citation: 289-290

Explanation and Analysis:

H Quotes in Homegoing

The Homegoing quotes below are all either spoken by H or refer to H. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

Mm-hmm. See, that's what I thought. You was young. Slavery ain’t nothin’ but a dot in your eye, huh? If nobody tell you, I’ma tell you. War may be over but it ain’t ended.

Related Characters: H

Page Number and Citation: 158

Explanation and Analysis:

And if he slammed the book down, then everyone in the room would stare and all they would see would be his skin and his anger, and they’d think they knew something about him, and it would be the same something that had justified putting his great-grandpa H in prison, only it would be different too, less obvious than it once was.

Related Characters: H, Marcus

Page Number and Citation: 289-290

Explanation and Analysis: