Southern life was based on agriculture, and the south wished to continue this way of life, which needed slavery to carry it on. ... Further, it is shown that the legal power of the master amounts to an absolute despotism over body and soul, and that there is no protection for the slave's life or limb, his family relations, his conscience, nay, more, his eternal interests, but the character of the master. ... Clare, slave owner whose way of life is sustained by the system he rejects morally and philosophically. ... He does recognized, until very late in his life and intends to right his...

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• Grade Level: High School

Kingston also notes that the baby was probably a girl, and as such would already have been considered practically useless to society "a theme that reappears throughout The Woman Warrior. ... In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... (Note that for Kingston's mother, the word "ghost" is used in the opposite sense, to refer to the Americans themselves.) ... (Note that the fantasy is written in the first-person, in the present tense. ... The secon...

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That was his meanness that started to destroy his life. ... ____'s life takes a towards revival. ... Celie starts out in the beginning of the novel as the "slave" to her father. ... It ends on a happy note. ... Anglewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1983. ?...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate