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. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

If an individual goes out and kills a black man, he will be viciously targetted by the media and prosecutors as being a racist skinhead, out to kill niggers. ... Those joke of a black leaders Jackson and Sharpton and their likes will jump to the scene to gain some publicity and try to unite the brainwashed minds of the blacks to believe all whites are racists and this crime is an example of how times have not changed for the blacks. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. ... De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see" (Hurston 14). ... He said, "Good evenin", Mis" Starks," with a sly grin as if they had a good joke together" (Hurston 94). ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School