The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard discipline. ... In the novel, the principal at Richard's school had asked Richard to give a speech to a large audience of white and black students, Richard refused to read the principal's prepared speech. ... A major lesson that Richard Wright has taught me, in when Shorty, a young black boy, gets beat by the white people and jokes about it. ... I believe that this novel was written well, the story line of the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dissimilar to the other blacks in my mandala, this black is used to demonstrate Jack's sociology. ... Walking behind him was his choir boys, who all wore "shorts, shirts" and "each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it", unlike the other boys, Jack had a golden cap badge, which indicated his power over the others right from the beginning (Golding 19). ... Like a little boy, he announces that he is "not going to play anymore. ... The black surrounding the purple spikes demonstrates Jack's fear throughout the novel and how he uses the other boys...

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This is the idea that Mark Twain, famous American author, expresses in his novel through the voice of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. ... The novel Huckleberry Finn contains many words that are full of vivid disgust towards black slaves of that time. ... This shows that the life of a black individual isn't valued by the whites of Twain's time. ... This shows that blacks are not considered equals at this time in society and have no self worth. ... Huck, a low class white boy who has been told to be cruel to blacks since he was little and someone constantly surrounded by people who...

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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...

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(Lee 61) Early in the novel Scout and Jem are very close. ... She has feelings for a boy. ... (Novels for Students volume two 293). In the Novel, Scout and Jem have no prejudice feelings until they see how white people treat the blacks during the trial. ... Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a depiction of the wrongful conviction of an innocent black man, the suffering thrust upon one family and forced two children to grow up. ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... The Bluest Eye is a bitter novel that vividly reflects the way in which blacks were treated unfairly, and more important, how most blacks were unable to resist oppression from whites during the late nineteenth century. ... One afternoon while Pecola is playing in the playground a boy named Junior invites her into his house. ... In essence, Claudia despises the black community in the novel b...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... One afternoon while Pecola is playing in the playground a boy named Junior invites her into his house. ... In essence, Claudia despises the black community in the novel because they suppress their black beauty. ... This novel speaks to masses of people, black and white, illustrating how a racist social system wears down the minds and souls people. ... Lastly, Morrison uses this novel t...

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He plays the most important roles in this novel since he is the one that really binds the story together. Huck is a thirteen-year-old boy whose father is the town dunk of ST, Petersburg, Missouri. He is also a clever a street smarts boy even though he has not been in school he can take care of himself and others. ... By the end of the novel Jim doesn't change much me is still the same loving and caring person as he was in the beginning of the novel but now he's taking care of others Huck and Tom. ... Huck sacrifices himself for a black friend he has come to love as an Equal. ...

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Looking at the characters in the novel that represent the idea of "good-, one can see that the actions of each boy are directly related to the name that Golding assigned them. ... Another character in the novel seen as "good- is Simon. ... He is described by Golding as a skinny little boy with black hair and is slightly younger than Ralph is. ... Piggy is a heavyset boy with asthma and bad sight. ... Perhaps the most evil of the boys in the novel, is Roger. ...

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He manages to set the scene as well as set in motion the ideas that will be explored within the novel. ... It's a literal darkness, in that where there is fog there is a lack of light, 'black drizzle' and 'the death of the sun'. ... The common type of narrator for prose novels is the third person omniscient. ... Setting, in these types of novels, is integral to the story, and the same goes for Bleak House, which is why this opening passage is so important. ... In this case the "snow" is black, perverting the natural image-but this is his point. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel is a narrative on Aschenbach's trip to Venice, where he becomes obsessed with a young boy named Tadzio and dies of cholera. ... When Aschenbach arrives in Venice, he catches a ride to the dock in a black gondola. ... The girls are very stiff and plain, but the boy is dressed in bright blue. The boy's beauty and brightness stand in sharp contrast to his sister's stark plainness. Aschenbach finds the boy incredibly beautiful and he cannot help but stare at him. ...

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Twain portrays Huck as an average boy of his time, mischievous, adventurous and funny. ... Watson's run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because they were uneducated, and had to be working in the fields. ... This shows the reader that blacks are so low, that the white people place prices on the blacks. ... All three novels are requirement in English III. ...

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The novel, "Deadly Unna?" ... The Aborigines in "Deadly Unna" are separate to the whites in many instances in the novel, due to the cultural differences and their position in society. For example, the novel is set in recent times on a peninsula in South Australia. ... Deadly Unna is seen through the eyes of the narrator, the main character Blacky, who is a 14 year old boy growing up in a white community who discriminates against Aborigines. ... Blacky, at the end of the novel suggests that there is a need of understanding between cultures for Aborigines and whites to resolve their differences....

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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain tells the story of a young Southern boy's adventures and his discovery of how society works. ... With this new insight about Jim, Huck is more accepting and eager to help him escapes slavery, and a world that is inhumane toward black people. ... Huck, a white person, is rejecting the majority's views on blacks and slaves. The majority of white people in Huck's day thought that they were doing the blacks a favor by enslaving them. ... By the end of the story, he no longer holds the same views of blacks and of slavery as he h...

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The unhealthy male/female relationship in this novel is between Milkman and Hagar. ... She told him of when she and his dad were little kids he was a nice boy, and he saved her life twice, once when her father died and they were stuck in the woods. ... Hagar and Milkman met when Milkman was only a little boy at the age of twelve, and Hagar was seventeen. ... The racist message, promulgated in one form of media after another, is that white is beautiful and black is ugly. ...

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The novel is set in the 1930's, a time when racism was very prevalent. ... Lee addresses many of these feelings in her novel. ... The words "nigger", "darkie", and "boy" are seen often throughout the book. ... Throughout the novel, we see each separate person and his personal narrow-mindedness. ... In this novel, we see a black man put on trial for a crime he clearly did not commit. ...

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However, in this novel Morrison is placing the spot light on African-Americans and how racism within the race accelerates their self destruction. ... Morrison however details repeatedly in the novel how these exact social categories: Black females and children are the aggressors of the stereotypes, prejudice, and racial self-loathing. ... This is the only one example throughout the entire novel that Morrison writes a detailed description. ... " when the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy she could say, Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! ... Black e mo black e mo (65)...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. ... An example of this is in The Wizard of Oz, when the movie goes from black and white to color, showing a visual symbolic death. ... This test or question continues to arise many times throughout the novel. ... Children have an innocent perception of the world around them, but as adults we realize the world is not black or white but various colors. ... The caterpillar starts out innocent (bl...

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As a result of this exposure to the white world's hostility and aggression towards blacks, most of Wright's books portray both racial discrimination and the black response to that injustice; such as Black Boy and Native Son. ... This novel is a reflection of racism. ... Authors used their stories, novels, and plots to communicate to the public their ideas and opinions. ... Wright's imagery in this novel is often vicious and elemental. ... He uses imagery throughout the novel. ...

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She is well known for her exceptional novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... The two novels embody many similar concerns and methods that characterize the black women's literary tradition. ... Hurston released her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, in 1934. ... By the mid-1940s, Hurston's writing career was faltering, and she was arrested and charged with molesting a ten-year-old boy and his two friends. ... "God does love black people, doesn't He?" ...

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Throughout the novel Twain recognizes the cowardice, hypocrisy, and stupidity of the South during the period leading up to the Civil War. ... We are shown that every male in the family is shouldering a rifle, including the youngest boy, around the age of thirteen. ... Mark Twain included these chapters in the novel to show the stupidity and violence of life in the Southern United states. ... Towards the end of the novel, Huck is speaking with Aunt Sally in regards to his late arrival. ... The novel is filled with quotes similar to this one, painting a darker picture of the South each time....

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At first, I was surprised but when I read over it again, it was a novel idea. ... The teachers needed to function as one unit, not one white and one black. ... When a teacher asked who Nat Turner was, a boy answered, "He led a rebellion to get whitey-(Haskins, 1969, pg.60). ... "One very disturbed sixth-grade boy refused to go to his math class because the teacher was white-(Haskins, 1969, pg. 71). A parent aid was asked to take the boy to guidance but he had already been there. ...

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That is what The Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Golding, tries to express. ... Ralph, Jack goes from a very petty and childish little boy, ""I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I"m chapter chorister and head boy. ... Secondly, throughout the entire novel, William Golding tried to make Jack's clothing reflect his personality. ... "Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long...

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He is the author of six novels including the widely acclaimed Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. ... He also read novels dealing with life in the American South, which he found "untrue and unreal." ... The first morning away, a group of "Patrollers," local white trash who used to hunt slaves, comes upon them and kills everyone but Jane and a very young boy Ned, whom they did not find. ... The blacks start fleeing north because of the worsening conditions. ... In the final chapter of the book, Jane describes a boy named Jimmy Aaron, whom the whole plantation hopes will become the "one" who wi...

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Huck and Jim have a friendship, which is transformed through time and trust, but always has the reminder that one is white and the other is black. ... Huck is a strong-willed, free-spirited individual who attempts to portray himself as a bad boy, but he often finds himself doing just the opposite. ... As a result, Huck feels bad and apologizes to Jim, which shows that Huck now has respect for him, even though he is black. ... Later in the novel, Huck hears Jim moaning and mourning to himself. ... In the beginning of the novel, Huck viewed Jim as a much lower, uneducated, and foolish black ...

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• Grade Level: High School