In this folktale, The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton it explains the human rights are valued, and that it shouldn’t be taken away. They all had the wings to be free before they were captured by the masters. The birds that were used in this text explain freedom, and how they were free to do whatever. The intended audience of this folktale would be a more mature audience because of the violence.
The author could have made this story for mature people to read, because as you read you get very violent intense imagery. They were being whipped and called bad names. In paragraphs 9 and 14 it shows this wrong behavior by saying “The Driver cracked his whip across the babe anyhow. The babe hollered like any hurt child,” and in paragraph 14
The author could have made this story for mature people to read, because as you read you get very violent intense imagery. They were being whipped and called bad names. In paragraphs 9 and 14 it shows this wrong behavior by saying “The Driver cracked his whip across the babe anyhow. The babe hollered like any hurt child,” and in paragraph 14