Metions Wilkie Analysis

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In this passage, Wilkie talks about him making a round and seeing Indians right outside his house. Never the less there is a boy who looks a bit odd then the others, yet he finds that he indeed specks english. Not only that but the boy had such great manner he had poor judgment of so. “Few shades darker than myself.”metions Wilkie that he is not different from them.The book Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century go’s into detail about his daughter Penelope and her emotions towards the boy. He was asked to do something that he wished he had not spoken with such bad language that Penelope said “what prevented her heart from flying out.” adding on she wished she could help.

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