It seems that the only way to present honesty is through the use of satire and tragedy since no one can suffer through a completely realistic self-examination, including the author. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ... (Gillman, p.58) The clockwork functioning of the Siamese twins master/slave relationship is juxtaposed against the disorder inherent in the antebellum slave society (and in Twain's contemporary post-Reconstruction society) where definitions of color are arbitrary and there is no clear agent of powe...

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The Civil Rights Movement in Miami The Truly Prolonged African American Experience in Miami How strange it all seems now equality. People had to fight for it? Kill for it? Go to court to defend it? Not too long ago, it was all true and clearly evident in any regular functioning day. The...

• Word Count: 1986
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