In Johannesburg live Kumalo's sister, Gertrude, and Kumalo's son, Absolam. ... One side of the city is for the decent white people and the other side is for the poor natives. There is always crime against the white people by the natives and Absolam is part of the latter. ... They have both lost their sons and though one was lost at the hand of the other, they treat each other like human beings. ... Kumalo's son murders Jarvis's son yes Jarvis helps Kumalo's church and Kumalo consoles Jarvis when his wife dies. ...

• Word Count: 411
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Tom Quick was a strong, agile, cunny white man who lived among Native Americans. His closest friend was Delaware chief's son, Mushwink. He learned the native ways with his Dutch family. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. ...

• Word Count: 1069
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... In Native Son, Bigger Thomas seems to be composed of a mass of disruptive emotions rather than a rational mind joined by a soul. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

They include the Cuban bolero, the danzon, the guaracha, and the Cuban "son." ... In the early 16th century, slaves imported from Africa to Cuba were dancing a ceremonial dance known as the "son." The native dance is a folk dance. ... The "son" was a popular dance of middle class in Cuba. ... With modifications from the "son" and many years later once introduced to the United States it became a sensation. ...

• Word Count: 665
• Approx Pages: 3
• 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. ... An example of how some Africans were starting to value education more was Nyokabi, Njoroge mother, "She was very proud to have her son in school. " All she wanted was the honor of saying, "Look, I've a son as good and as well educated as any you can find in the land. " However, Njoroge beliefs were different from his fathers and mothers. ... The novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, Njoroge and his f...

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Chess and Checkers" father became a heavy alcoholic after his son died and eventually ran into the forest never to return. ... (Alexie, 82) Alexie relates a Native American awards banquet in his book, One Stick Song, " speaker after speaker extolled the virtues of all the highly successful Indian men .brave, intelligent, loving, and respectful leaders .warriors .Everyone clapped in agreement. ... Together they have a son. ...

• Word Count: 804
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Native people of colonised regions were generally regarded as savage heathens by missionaries, but it is evident from Things Fall Apart that complex set of belief were in existence. ... One of these is Okonkwo's son, Nwoye: The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question o...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

There are many cliches about having the best of both worlds but what exactly does that mean. Some people are born into different worlds and many times they are not truly accepted into either. In the historical biography, Halfbreed, David Halaas and Andrew Masich tell the story of George Bent. Georg...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cormac McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic story of a man and his son in his novel The Road to do just this. ... Arrowheads are reminders of the past, Native Americans used them centuries ago to survive. ...

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

The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... He noted towards the end of his memoirs, "They still retain most of their native customs; they bury their dead, and put victuals, pipes, and tobacco, and other things, in the grave with corpse, in the same manner as in Africa" (Allison 145). ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the first stanza, Kipling says, "Send forth the best ye breed-/ Go, bind your sons to exile/ to serve your captives need;". ... The same idea of de-humanization of the Africans is present throughout Heart of Darkness as well, where the natives of the Congo are repeatedly called "savages." ...

• Word Count: 4292
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School