This is where two black servants, Sam and Willie, work for the white family. ... He wanted the little boy to be proud of something, proud of himself. ... The kite triggered neurotic thoughts but exhilarated the despairing boy. ... When the conflict supernovas, Hally lashes out on his two black friends. ... As a young boy Hally had to be sent to escort his drunken father home. ...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is why Twain uses Jim, a black slave, as a symbol of society's racism and ignorance. ... The fact that a white boy apologized to an older, black slave, was ground- breaking and very controversial for this time period. The apology reflects Twain's feelings towards blacks himself. ... Jim is a symbol for the racist ideas and intolerance that plagued our nation for so long. Moreover, he is the symbol for the hope that someday, our country may someday be free of hatred and prejudice. ...

• Word Count: 477
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Pecola's individuality is her ugliness, more important though, Pecola believes the only way for her individuality to be possessed by beauty is for her to become white, or own a symbol of whiteness-like blue eyes. ... Pecola's constant desire for blue eyes is an indication that images of white perfection and beauty are important to her because she feels that it she possesses one symbol of whiteness she will never again be subjected to the harsh realities of discrimination. ... One afternoon while Pecola is playing in the playground a boy named Junior invites her into his house. ... ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He was neither entirely black nor white; his mother told him to not associate with outsiders. ... He thinks about this a bit more and assumes that maybe God likes black people better, hence having his mother cry at Church. He then asks whether God was black or white. ... The bicycle is a symbol, representing Ruth McBride's outlet of being able to cope with her second husband's death by having it become an escape from reality, and yet negotiating what her reality has become as well. ... During this time, he felt the pain of isolation so acutely that he would get angry at 'the bo...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... At the same time, blacks are charged higher rents than whites, which is ridiculous. ... He is infuriated by both blacks and whites; blacks for their passive responses to their treatment by whites, and whites for making him feel self-conscious and ashamed. ... I see Bigger as a symbol. He represents one rebellious black response to a racist society. ...

• Word Count: 2344
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Malcolm and his family moved to Lansing, Michigan and again is attacked by a group called the Black Legion, who burned his home to the ground" ("Malcolm X.... Malcolm eventually works as a shoeshine boy at a ballroom and it becomes the center of his social life. ... "This held the belief that blacks were superior, and that white people were the devils" ("Malcolm X.... He begins to celebrate pride for his race and Black nationalism. ... The Film Malcolm X is a symbol of hope for the future and that anything is possible. ...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In these years Mark Twain was still a boy. ... Although she is black one doesn't notice it at first site because only one-sixteenth of her is of black. ... Then that home was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible - (5) Only seemingly harmless and peaceful though, because Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town inhabited by townsmen of Virginian ancestry, and by slaves. ... Only one sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show. ... In creating a situation in which a white child get...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School