Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In the beginning of the novel, the narrator introduces important characters without the reader knowing by telling the story of the man attempting to end his life. The narrator advances some years in the novel and starts to reintroduce the characters. Macon Dead Jr., who is the main protagonist of the story, starts off not knowing who he is. Macon Jr. is known as Milkman throughout the novel because Freddie catches his mother breastfeeding him at an age that is not normal. His parents are Macon…

Introduction To Kill a Mocking bird describes the life of a family living in the 1930’s. The father, Atticus, is a lawyer and a widower. His two children, Scout and Jem along with their neighbor Dill, explore the territory of the Radley’s. When Dill arrives they share the local stories about Boo Radley, a social outcast who was said to have tried to kill his father and was locked in the courthouse basement. When he returned, it was said he would only go outside during the night; causing kids to…

Difference The Greek City states or polis had many differences but also many similarities. Although the city states were made up of the same people, Greeks, the beliefs, government, and views of culture and everyday life vary between the different polis. Many times ancient literature opens one’s eyes to the norms of a society and for the Greek city states texts such as The Iliad, Oresteia and other such works. During the time period of the city states there were radical ways of…

Who was John Brown and if he was a man of faith, how could he have been a leader in the taking of innocent lives? This is a question that has baffled the minds of many scholars and historians since that October day in Harpers Ferry in 1859. Was what John Brown organized and executed right or wrong? These are difficult questions to answer about a man who felt so strongly about his convictions about slavery and the God whom he served. John Brown was committed to the abolition of slavery at a young…

Abigail acts as a ringleader, encouraging the other girls to sin. She also lies and cheats her way out of punishment, and is willing to do most anything to get her way. We first meet her when she is accused of having a poor reputation by her Uncle, Reverend Parris, to which she replies “Why, I am sure it is, sir. There be no blush about my name… She [Elizabeth Proctor] hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It’s a bigger woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and…

Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker gives an insightful depiction of this prevailing racial dispute. The novel uses first generation, as he was born on an airplane, Korean immigrant Henry Park’s life story to illustrate the existing issue. Henry is ordered to spy on a Korean immigrant politician, John Kwang. The incidents that happen in Kwang’s election camp mirror the racial conflict and possible harmony of different races in America. Although the novel begins with high hopes that interracial…

small meal. The conditions these children are in are far more extreme than people will ever know. It was found in a study that “...factory workers [in China] lose or break about 40,000 fingers on the job every year” (Barboza). This can be a life-changing incident, which can lead to the…

Big Mac is the president of the footy club and a pub owner. He represents the cultural authority due to his position at the centre of the Port’s social life. Through his racist remarks ostracising Boongs from the “black bar” and his racist jokes, Gwynne positions the reader to dislike him and contradict with his values, attitudes, and beliefs. For instance, Big Mac ignores the order “from the other side…

Throughout the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Huck learns many important lessons which help him become the mature boy at the end of the novel. Huck fakes his death and runs away to an island where he meets Jim, a slave of the lady whom he used to live with. Jim and Huck travel down the Mississippi River towards the free states where they can make new lives. Along the way, the couple encounters many people and events, and undergo many changes personally.…

Do the names Moritz Braun, Hirsch Chewel, Helena Dortheimer, or Anna Reich sound familiar? To German officials of the Third Reich, these names would be better known as 69053, 77193, 76230, and 76407. They don’t care about their names, families, or history. The only thing the SS officers need to know are the numbers; numbers that were tattooed onto the Jews’ arms, as if to say, “we own you know.” But to one man, a person means so much more than a number. To him, a person is a living human…