i need an analysis for this passage: Nel blinked, but acquiesced. They walked up the

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street until they got to? the bend of Carpenter's Road where the bosy lounged on a disused well. Spotting their prey, the boys sauntered forward as though there were nothing in the world on their minds but the gray sky. Hardly able to control their grins, they stood like a gate blocking the path. When the girls were three feet in front of the boys, Sula reached into her coat pocket and pulled out Eva's paring knife. The boys stopped short, exchanged looks and dropped all pretense of innocence. This was going to be better than they thought, They were going to try and fight back, and with a knife. Maybe they could get an arm around one of their waists, or tear... Sula squatted down in the dirt road and put everthing donw on the ground:her lunch pail, her mittens, her slate. Holding the knife in her right hand, she pulled the slate toward her and pressed her left forefinger donw hard in its edge. Her aim was determined but inaccurate. She slashed off only the tipe of her finger. The four boys stared open-mouthed
at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the corners of the slate.
THIS IS FROM SULA, TONI MORRISON
 
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