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- 961: African-American Literature, M
- ... up for adoption and left to join the movement that would truly connect her with her people and, just as importantly, with herself. Janies grandmother, Nanny, was a cultural relic from the days of slavery who greatly influenced Janies early life. Nannys concerns for her granddaughter were simple. In her mind, for a girl like Janie to be happy she needed a man with property to protect her ...
- 962: Langston Hughes
- ... the Congo . . . I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids . . ." The three line gap following these lines is Hughes' representation of the void left in the history of his people by the spectrum of slavery.10 The Poem Harlem Night Club tells the story of how when together in the night clubs in Harlem blacks and whites get along. They dance together and sing together but as tomorrow comes no ...
- 963: The Innocent Adventure
- ... Supreme Test or the Ultimate Test, is the forth step of the Cosmogonic Cycle where the character or hero is faced with a dilemma of enormous proportions. Huck is faced with the moral predicament of slavery throughout the entire novel. This test or question continues to arise many times throughout the novel. Huck is torn between right and wrong, in fact he almost turns Jim, the runaway slave, in during his ...
- 964: To Kill A MockingTo Kill A Moc
- To Kill A Mockingbird Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, other groups of people are judged ...
- 965: Revision Rich
- ... a slave to man. Rich writes "the massive weight of Uncles' wedding band"; Aunt Jennifer is pinned down, the "band sits heavily in her hand", the image of the wedding band brings a feeling of slavery and fear (608). Rich's tone in the poem is observant and she makes it clear that she does not want to live a life like Aunt Jennifer's. In the poem Rich makes Aunt ...
- 966: Nothing
- ... and her sons are both stronger and warmer than the white people in the novel. In some of his other books, like Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses, Faulkner even said that the guilt for slavery was a curse that would destroy white Southerners. As the years went by and the civil rights movement achieved some success, however, Faulkner backed away. He said blacks deserved equal rights in American society but ...
- 967: Mother 2
- ... about her feeling and discrimination. Towards the end of the story, Freeman expresses what should her mother do to claim for her rights. She describes "Mother" as taking enough courage to break the chain of slavery. For forty years she had served her husband without complaint, but now she had to stand up and fight for her right, liberty, and position. She was convinced of what was her right and with ...
- 968: Master And Slave In The Tempes
- ... s freedom should go to hell. He quotes, Any man who deprives others of their freedom and being able to restore that freedom does not do so is condemned (from Vieira s Sermon Condemning Indian Slavery). Prospero robs Caliban of his island and of his freedom. He has the ability to restore Caliban s freedom and island, yet he does not. The innocence of Caliban, however, can also be questioned. Prospero ...
- 969: Leguins Omelas
- ... inhabitants of Omelas who are mature, passionate and intelligent. Le Guin dispels certain things in our modern era that give strain to some people s lives and woe to others. She refers to secret police, slavery and the bomb as negative thoughts outside of Omelas that do not exist in it. Le Guin s descriptiveness and imagery allow this story to have a great effect on the reader. By wanting to ...
- 970: Killer Angels 2
- ... most terrible things in America's history the "Battle of Gettysburg" The book is a great depiction on the American Civil War. The book is repulsing, the massive slaughter of "Americans by Americans" over human slavery. There was also a highly accurate portrayal of the action, and the command challenges at Gettysburg. "This is the story of the battle of Gettysburg, told from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James ...
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