Although he reviles against the black professor, he is indeed embarrassing himself because he knows that the black professor has better ability to do things that he cannot do. ... One of the significant characters in Twain's novel, a runaway slave Jim plays an important role by representing the humanity of black people even though his social status is lower than any one else in the story. ... Twain also uses Huck, the protagonist of his novel to criticize the prejudiced attitudes of white people towards black people. Grown up as a typical white boy, Huck never doubts the fact that Blacks ...

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Cormac McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic story of a man and his son in his novel The Road to do just this. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... Throughout the entire novel the boy, the man, the woman, and every single other character they meet remain nameless. ... Both the film and the novel, The Road, depict a dark desolate wasteland. ... In the novel the use of nameless characters and McCarthy's word choice provide the reader with silver lining to the otherwise miserable and pe...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. ... Binta then gives birth to a boy that brings great joy to the whole family that was present. ... The mother decides to call him baby boy till the Omaru decides on the name in eight days. Omaru asks the chief weather to name the boy based on a person or a thing. ... He then finds out that he would be sailing a new ship called the Lord Liganear that would have a cargo consisting mostly of black slaves. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "Weep not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, the young boy, Njoroge, grows up in the mist of the Mau Mau war and the conflict between the African natives and the British colonial rulers. ... In this novel, Nganga and Mr. ... Njoroge and his family illustrate this in the novel. ... Howlands could make herself cheap enough to go with black men for money? ... In his opinion as stated a white women is above a black male therefore, she must lower herself to him be with him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... The responder can see there that the father is blind to the boys needs, he can only see that the boy continues to love him and believes that that is all that matters. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant exper...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate