The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. ... In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... Using this existing idea of whites, Mark Twain instead characterizes them by rather opposing traits, evidently criticizing their supposed "goodness " throughout the novel. ... The scam has surely confounded Huc...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth to her son. Thus her story begins with semi-orphanhood and ends with motherhood. ... Family life in the store included disciplined study of arithmetic; leisurely reading of novels, poetry, and Shakespeare; and lessons on deportment and avoidance of trouble with whites. ... Louis underworld, with the ...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Freedom brings, according to Washington, the "responsibility of freedom", which means that an individual who adheres to Washington's concept of Freedom is in a sense propelled through life by it. ... This is what Washington sees, or chooses to see, and what he bases his life's work upon. ... This is not to say that the lesson DuBois teaches is superior to Washington's; it is only to point out a difference between their use of discourse. Washington's autobiography reads like a "How-To" manual; DuBois" thoughts are much more abstract and novelized, in a sense. ... One hesitat...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate