<p>I am writing a paper for English, and I'm wondering if this is proper MLA formatting:</p>
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It is only once Beloved’s presence is gone and Paul D is there to keep it away that Sethe feels it is possible for her to have a life, to survive: “Sethe looked to her left and all three of them were gliding over the dust holding hands. Maybe he was right. A life” (56).
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Is that the first section you’ve quoted in the paper?</p>
<p>Yes, but the paragraph mentions which book it’s coming from.</p>
<p>Note: I am not an English person or a good writer, so don’t judge anything past formatting. :-P</p>
<p>Ok, but for the first one it should be…</p>
<p>It is only once Beloved’s presence is gone and Paul D is there to keep it away that Sethe feels it is possible for her to have a life, to survive. “Sethe looked to her left and all three of them were gliding over the dust holding hands. Maybe he was right. A life” (Morrison 56).</p>
<p>The rest of the quotes after should be just the page number.</p>
<p>Let me check something really quick though.</p>
<p>If you directly quote it, you should put the author and the page number every time unless the author is mentioned in THAT sentence.</p>
<p>If it’s a paraphrase, you can do something like (author page<em>number-page</em>number) at the end of the paragraph.</p>
<p>If you can, you may want to check exactly what your teacher wants because teachers do have different ‘styles’ of MLA.</p>