He constantly uses the term "nigger", and enjoys a laugh at a slave's expense. ... In fact, Huckleberry and his best friend Tom, play a rather crude joke on Jim. ... He doesn't let Jim go out at daytime because he believes that "People will see [Jim] as a nigger from miles off." ... He killed it and left its skin inside Jim's bed as a joke. ... Huck sees this as an opportunity for another practical joke. ...

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For at this point, Huck does not really see Jim as a person, merely a "nigger", someone to play tricks on. ... However, Huck still fluctuates between treating Jim as a fellow traveling-companion and making him the butt of practical jokes. ... One would think that this would be enough to prevent Huck from ever playing a joke on Jim again, but not so. ... There is, of course, a deeper significance to this particular practical joke than might be apparent on the surface. ... Huck is prepared to have a triumphant laugh over his joke, but Jim angrily cuts him off. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Well this is put to the test first when Huck is on Jacksons Island, and he discovers the runaway nigger Jim, well if Huck had been back home with either Pap or Miss. ... Now that we see Huck is starting to have some moral development; he takes a couple steps back and plays a horrible joke on Jim: " my heart wuz mos" broke bekase you wuz los", en I didn" k"yer no mo" what become er me en de raf". ... He does redeem himself somewhat: "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it after...

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For example, Huck says, "Miss Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hairball as big as your fist-(17). Huck's feelings toward Jim seem like how he feels about every other slave because of the fact that he calls him "Miss Watson's nigger". ... Furthermore, during their trip down the river, Huck gets lost, but comes back and plays a little joke on Jim - "En when I wake up en fine you back ag"in, all safe en soun; de tears come, en I could "a" got down on my knees en kiss yo" foot I was so thankful"(86). ... Huck fails to notice that everything is not always a joke. ... For example, Huck...

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He helps around the house and is receptive and intelligent, which earns him the title of "good nigger." ... Malcolm's teachers like him, but also make "nigger" jokes. ... He bristles when people call him "nigger", is despondent, and refuses to answer when people ask him what is wrong. ...

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Profanity and homosexual jokes and references can be found multiple times in the novel. An example of a homosexual joke is when Junior goes to give Rowdy a cartoon and his father answers the door. ... A boy named Roger asked Junior if he wanted to hear a joke and Roger says, "'Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?...

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Jem and Scout had been brought up by Atticus to believe in fairness to people, regardless of their race or colour "Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" "Of course I do. don't say nigger, Scout. ... This was fun for them, talking with friends, having lunch, and joking. ...

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In the beginning of the novel, Huck is wild and carefree, playing jokes and tricks on people and believing them all to be very funny. ... Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? ... Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. ... He learned the value of life, the line between right and wrong, and how some immature jokes can threaten the life of others. ...

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Have you ever played a mean trick or a joke on someone and only realized later on how bad it made them feel? ... Huck was thinking about writing to Miss Watson and telling her to come get her nigger, but he changed his mind and ripped up the letter. At the same time he also maintains society's beliefs about niggers through out the entire novel. When Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally asks Huck if anyone was hurt when the steamboat cylinder exploded, he said "No"m killed a nigger." ...

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She went to the only dentist in Stamps but he wouldn't treat her cause he said, "He would rather stick his hand in the mouth of a dog than the mouth of a "nigger." She is then scared when Bailey is locked up with a dead body as a bad joke. ...

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The situation escalates and Hally then tells Sam about a joke his father makes about a black person's buttocks is not fair. "I laughed because I think it is a bloody good joke." Hally tells Sam to persuade him that he did actually enjoy the joke. ... " A crowded Main Street with all the people watching a little white boy following his drunk father on a nigger's back! ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He helps around the house and is receptive and intelligent, which earns him the title of "good nigger." ... Malcolm's teachers like him, but also make "nigger" jokes. ... He bristles when people call him "nigger", is despondent, and refuses to answer when people ask him what is wrong. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The stories also tell that the murderers are seen as some sort of hero, being seen joking and boasting about the incident. ... In his words, "If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master "to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world- (qtd. ...

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Stream-of-consciousness In Ernest J. Gaines' Short Story, "Just Like A Tree" "Ernest J. Gaines, in his short story, "Just Like a Tree," does an extraordinary job at familiarizing his readers with each character. By using the literary technique known as stream-of-consciousness, readers are able ...

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Practical jokes, humiliations, and terror ended by the narrator delivering a prepared speech of gratitude to the whites. At the end of the "battle-, the boy dreams that he has opened the briefcase given to him with his scholarship to a Negro college and that he finds an inscription reading: "To Whom It May Concern: Keep This Nigger-Boy Running." ... pg. 199-201 The "Nigger-Boy- keeps running he won't let something like a letter stop him or even slow him down. ...

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Early in the book Malcolm received great grades, all his teachers loved, all though they use "nigger" jokes in front of him and since he was one of a few black students in the school, majority of the kids liked him. ... When he goes back to school, he gets angry and offended when people use the word "nigger." ...

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People with severe cases are usually the subject of many jokes and even outcast by their disorder. ... When Michael is introduced to an African-American, he cannot stop himself from exclaiming, "Nigger!"...

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In Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck travels with his poodle in his camper across America to discover his country and validate his status as an American author. On his circular journey, Steinbeck reflects upon each location as having its own personality and unique story. Consequently, the book re...

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For Huck there were many influences around him that made him superstitious. His two closes friends, Tom and Jim, are both superstitious, although Jim is much more older, practical and wise, Tom is the other extreme being immature and who enjoys a far-fetched story line. In one incident, Jim shows t...

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• Grade Level: High School

He liked to joke to compensate; a lot of black people compensate, okay, in this environment. ... The two boys called him a nigger. They saw him under the table and they said, "There's that nigger and shot him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first time as a joke, Huck puts a dead rattlesnake near Jim's sleeping place, and its mate comes and bites Jim. ... It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. ... "Well, there's five niggers run off to-night up , above the head of the bend. ...

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Willie becomes the butt of all jokes in the community, looking awkward and being distinctly different. ... Henderson" subpoenaed by the judge, whites think of the incident as a joke, for only the white women should be referred to as "Mrs." ... Maya remarks strongly upon the hazard associated with calling a black person "anything that could be loosely interpreted as insulting" because blacks have been labeled negatively for centuries as "niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks." ...

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Even later when "real" blacks were allowed to represent their own race on the screen there was nothing but the image of the "negro", "nigger" and "coon", indiscriminately used in American films, glorifying slavery and the inhuman treatment of blacks. ... Besides there were occasional bits, such as Biograph's A Bucket of Cream Ale (1904), which plays a joke on a Dutchman, who angrily throws a glass on a Negro servant woman, and is hit in revenge, without a pause to consider, in the face with a growler of beer tossed by the blackface maid. ... The pure coons were seen as no account nigger...

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No longer will they be the butt of another white mans joke or have to deal with being the minority. ... The guards on the bus thought it would be funny to pick on a black inmate by "making a mummy of a nigger" (Bunker 3) by wrapping ace bandages around his body and putting duct tape over his mouth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School