Mississippi Delta

quickly becomes close friends with Jim, the slave owned by the Widow Douglass. When Huck’s father comes into town, he bashes on Huck and how he was wrong in his way of accepting Jim as a human being. Throughout their entire adventures down the Mississippi River, Huck never questions his friendship with Jim once. The whole town around was shocked whenever they jaw Huck and Jim socializing and have a good time together, but Huck and Jim just kept their heads up high and went on their…

“The Possibility of Evil” a short story written by Shirley Jackson describes the protagonist, Miss Adela Strangeworth, as “knowing everyone in town.” On the other hand “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty explains a journey taken by an old Negro woman named Phoenix Jackson who was the story’s protagonist. In both these short stories the author purposefully uses a non-participating narrator to help the readers understand the story by developing a detailed setting and not allowing the readers to…

“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a story that tells us about Phoenix, an elderly woman who undertakes an arduous journey to the city in search of her grandson's throat medicine. She is a determined and resilient woman who despite her age unwaveringly battles many obstacles to find her grandson's throat medicine. Symbolism is one of the most prominent stylistic devices that the author has skillfully used to explain certain phenomena in the story. Various symbols have been used in the text which…

history of Mississippi's notorious Parchman prison farm as it related to sharecropping, convict leasing, lynching and the legalized segregation and was considered by the author as “Worse than Slavery.” From the 1880s into the 1960s, segregation in Mississippi was enforced through "Jim Crow" laws. These laws were given the name that referred to blacks in a musical show. These laws resulted in legal punishments on black people for consorting with members of another race, inter-racial…

Mark Twain, who was thought of by many as a celebrity of the American literature world in numerous ways and usually referred to his work as inspirational and moving, was also admired by many for all of his achievements throughout his life, and also for his literary impact on American literature and novels. When he was first thinking about literature and doing more things to get more involved in it was when he was a young man working at the local newspaper industry as an assistant printer.…

spectacular and wondrous, but comes at a price and with a great deal of responsibility. It serves as one of the biggest moral anchors in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the grand Mississippi River emits this sense of freedom throughout the story. To outline the beginning of the adventures, the Mississippi River acts as the path to liberation from slavery for Jim, and a route for Huck to escape his abusive father. The river is virtuous and fulfilling as Huck and Jim begin their escapades,…

and being free. Huck desires his freedom from the start of the book and he reaches his dream through his wonderful, yet hard journey on the river. The days slip by and the river pushes him and Jim along to an uncertain destination. Without the Mississippi, Huck would never have met the people and had the experiences he did while running wild and…

British told the U.S that they will remove their forts only if the U.S payed their old debts on the Revolution accounts. On March 1796, Thomas Pinckney negotiated with Spain. This was the Pinckney Treaty, in which Spain gave U.S free use of the Mississippi River for…

The Confederates fort at Vicksburg, Mississippi, was essential to the South, as it served as a key vantage point to them over the North. However, if the Union could besiege this fort, the North would have control over the lower Mississippi River, which would split the Confederacy into two, cutting off their connection to Virginia. With such an extreme advantage being given to the prevailing side, and the other a great defeat, is what makes the Battle of Vicksburg the true turning point of the…

The French and Indian War Why didn’t France considered that their weakness affected them in losing the war? The French and Indian War or also known as the Seven Year War was one of the largest battles between England and France for the control of the Ohio River Valley. Both Britain and France main goal to achieve was to benefit their mother country while trying to supply good to their homeland that they couldn’t get anywhere else. It started with France in the early 1750s trying to…