It gives the imagination a wild and amusing ride, but it doesn't allow you to relate the plot to everyday life. ... In the book, Twain depicts a realistic attitude toward slavery through Jim, the runaway slave, while simultaneously giving the reader a wild ride of the moral growth of the orphaned boy Huck. ... He knows nothing more than to answer and cater to a white man's call. ... They generally had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats; they call one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and dr...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His love has been a joyous light That o'er her pathway smiled, A fountain gushing ever new, Amid life's desert wild. ... I could not rest, if around my grave I heard the steps of a trembling slave; His shadow above my silent tomb Would make it a place of fearful gloom I could not sleep, if I heard the tread Of a coffle-gang to the shambles led, And the mother's shriek of wild despair Rise, like a curse, on the trembling air. ... I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated Might Can rob no man of his dearest right; My rest shall be calm in any grave Where none c...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1849 Livingstone and a group of 30-40 men went into the wild to try to get to the other side of the Ngami-lake where the makololo-tribe lived. ... In November 1855 they came to the big waterfalls that the Africans called "the smoke that thunders", but Livingstone names it the Victoria Falls. ...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

When they were all captured, they were chained and shackled to the coast in a procession called a "coffle". ... It was called the Underground Railroad, but it had no engines and no trains. ... So why was it called a railroad? ... Sine the word "underground" mean hidden and out of sight, they called it the Underground Railroad. ... One was called the "wild-goose chase" which was when a slave hunter came looking for his prey, he would be assured that that very slave had just gone this way, when the runaway had gone the opposite way days earlier! ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Close to the kitchen was a large wooden building called the kitchen quarter in which the house servants ate. ... Vegetables from their gardens could supplement this diet, by fish or wild game, and molasses. ...

• Word Count: 2162
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School