We are shown that every male in the family is shouldering a rifle, including the youngest boy, around the age of thirteen. ... Mark Twain placed this quote in the text to point out how cruel normal Southerners were, regarding the life of a black person as worthless, and the African Americans were not actually people at all. ... What makes this quote even more powerful, is the fact that neither Huck nor Aunt Sally pay any special attention to the word "nigger," nor do they show any pity or sorrow for the dead of the black person, as they continue their conversation. Today, when we read the A...

• Word Count: 1495
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck and Jim initially don't find themselves best of friends, Huck initially finds himself struggling with the acceptance, commitment, and loyalty because he is white and, Jim is a black runaway slave, who finds himself doing as this little twelve year old white boy tells him. ...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. ... "A True Story- exhibits the cruelty and dehumanization faced by slaves, displaying Twain's sincere empathy concerning the "black condition."" ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and shows that took the humiliation of the black race to a new level of cruelty, and the passage of laws (i.e. ... In the private arena this meant wholesale intimidation, beatings, and lynching of black Americans, who didn't "give up the road."" ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate