The cow fed on the salt of the rime ice, and as she licked a man's head began to emerge. ... On the sea shore, Bor's sons found two logs and made people out of them. ... When they met, he said, "What a fine young woman," and she said "What a fine young man". ... She deferred to her father's judgment, and her father gave him both Princess Brilliant Blossoms and her older sister, Princess Long as the Rocks. The new emperor refused the older sister, however, because of her ugliness. ...

• Word Count: 3045
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavement. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... Significa...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As he says in his note, he had become one of the Seven Days for love of black people, not for any hate of whites. ... (p 69) His father tells him, " if you want to be a whole man, you have to deal wit the whole truth." ... Pilate, through her inheritance, a bag of old bones, brings in another part of the image of flight. " 'You just can't fly on off and leave a body,' " (p 208) her father's ghost had told her. " 'He meant that if you take a life, then you own it . ... According to local belief, Solomon had literally flown off, to freedom, to return to his home across t...

• Word Count: 1472
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School