Uncle Willy is a story with a young boy narrator. ... Faulkner seems to realize that a boy at this age doesn't know that Uncle Willy is harming himself and would have harmed the boy too if he had to and that he is not looking to the boy to have fun but using him just to have the drugs he needed. ... It doesn't really seem that important to the story because I think it is more about the boy gaining the knowledge of what happens around him and taking this experience to reflect upon later. ... The dialogue also gives clues about how they culturally live, not so much like Native Am...

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The story starts out with a young boy by the name of Jessie Bollier a thirteen year old southern white boy who plays his fiddle for pennies at the dock. ... The thought of his family being worried about him made him extremely tense. ... The boy and Jessie got acquainted. ... The boy's name was Ras. ... Jessie was unsure about what would happen next, would he go home and go back to the way he was, being gone for four months his mother worried about him thinking he is dead he did not know what he was going to do. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The most important thing to note about the shift in class structure can be seen by looking at the former behavior of Sutpen and Wash with how they behaved after the war. ... The "Negro" boy is a difficult character to understand; due to his inability to free himself from slavery when the law says he is a free man. ... "Drink it" Weddel orders the boy, and then following up forcefully, "Take it" (Mountain Victory 752). ... On more than one occasion Vatch refers to the boy as a nigra and dismisses him. The boy is in the stable for the majority of the story, like an animal (Mountain Victory ...

• Word Count: 1688
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a young troubled boy goes on an adventure with a runaway slave. The name of this boy is Huckleberry, who is usually just referred to as Huck, and the runaway slave whose name is Jim. ... Jim ran away because he overheard the Widow talking to a slave trader about selling Jim. ... Huck decides to go into town disguised as a girl to get supplies, but the house he goes to has a woman in it who after a while of talking realizes that Huck is a boy. She says that she will not tell anyone about Huck's visit. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I once caught gossip about a field slave named Henry Norser who was found sneaking in the garden trying to get food for his young son. ... The poor boy was traumatized for weeks but was forced to continue on as usual the next day. ... There was one little boy, around the age of twelve, that was put in my care because he could no longer work. ... When I was allowed to come out and go back to my duties I had learned that the boy had survived. ... As I started to protest to what he was about to do, he kicked me in the head again. ...

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In the book, Twain depicts a realistic attitude toward slavery through Jim, the runaway slave, while simultaneously giving the reader a wild ride of the moral growth of the orphaned boy Huck. ... So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time. ... It shouldn't have mattered if the young boy was fed or if he ever slept, but it somehow did to Jim. ...

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Douglass explains that his first glimpse of the dehumanizing character of slavery was when he was a small boy around seven years old. ... Slaves may of sang because they were not allowed to talk badly about their owners. ... He could challenge any boy he met in writing and Douglass would win, he could write on any surface with chalk, and he would copy words out of his owner's books when he was left home alone. ...

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When Douglass was about twelve years old, his master's wife started teaching him the alphabet from then he continued, secretly, to teach himself how to read and write. ... A message which clearly stated that slavery should be abolished The narrative begins with, "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland. ... Now that we have the necessary background about the autobiography we can move on to our topic which the making of self in the narrative The concept of "knowing one's self" is one of the basic tenets of weste...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David Livingstone - an explorer and a missionary As usual, when we are free to choose a theme for our projects, it is difficult to choose one thing to write about. ... I remember the guide who told me about David Livingstone, the first European to see the falls. ... I wanted to know even more about this man who seemed to have no fear, therefore my thesis and way of presenting the problem will be: -Who was David Livingstone and what did he do in Africa? ... No explorers made these contrasts clearer than David Livingstone, the poor scottish boy who managed to ...

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The first view we get from Douglass is as a small boy, without a birthday, father, or any sort of identity. ... Douglass never knew who his father was; though he heard about the possibility that his master might be his father. ... The physical power that went into defining the American hero was brought about later in the reading. ... I have a better understanding of what exactly happened to the slaves in the 1800's and believe that it is an important reading in American history, as everyone should be informed about this part of America's past....

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Douglass explains the different plantations that he had seen and talked about the ways of the different masters and mistresses that he had encountered. ... At the time of this writing Frederick believes to be about 27 or 28 years of age. ... One incident that Douglass speaks of describes the Colonel riding along the road when he ran into a colored man and said: "Well boy, whom do you belong to?" ... Auld had ordered these teachings to stop at once when he found out about them because it was said to be unlawful and unsafe for a slave to be taught to read. ... Now a free man, Douglass would go...

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Even as a young boy Douglass becomes frustrated at the fact that he does not know his birthday but all the white children do. ... Feeling broken and tamed, he claimed, "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died" (83). ...

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Although he did not have much of a relationship with his mother, she did manage to silently make trips in the night to see her young boy, although she faced a severe beating if she was caught. ... So these slaves were typically sold to another owner so they would not have to worry about the consequence that accompanies having your own child as a slave. ... The stories also tell that the murderers are seen as some sort of hero, being seen joking and boasting about the incident. ... During a war people usually have already made up their minds about the issue at hand, so his work would not h...

• Word Count: 1899
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After working in the coal mine for some time, his mother found a position for him as a house boy for the Ruffner Family. ... After being at the Ruffner house for about four years Booker made the decision to attend Hampton Institute, in Virginia. He had gotten this idea from a man he had heard talking about a school in Virginia. ...

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Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish self-made scholar, wrote about that very question, of what is a self-made man, in his lecture, "A Talk to Young Men." ... Douglass began, My Bondage and My Freedom, by stating that he was just a little boy; just like all the other kids. ... Douglass was considered as good as a pig early in the text, but as he grew, he gained a better understanding about himself. ...

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Delano shrugs off all of the abnormal happenings and Cereno's uninterested reaction to them, such as when a black boy inflicted a knife wound in a white boys head, muttering "that it was merely the sport of the lad" (16). ... Brown sees the goodness in everyone until the old man, who is probably the devil, reveals something dark about them. ... Amasa Delano's tendency to see the good rather than the potential evil puts him in a dangerous position, as he is completely fooled by Babo's act as an affectionate servant and is clueless about the mutiny on San Dominick. ...

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As the two struggle to maintain their freedom, Huck constantly challenges his morals with the way he was brought up, as a racist southern boy, and his own personal beliefs. ... Twain's underlying message for humanity is to be brave enough to break from what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for yourselves and the ability to stand on your own and do something about it. ... Everything about Jim is presented through emotions as evident in his reason -2- for running away from Miss Watson's; in his aspirations to buy his family's freedom; and in his pro...

• Word Count: 2378
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After learning about the Fugitive Slave Act, (which did not allow free blacks to enter Maryland without risk of getting captured or sold), she was moved to dedicate her life to the anti-slavery movement (Hill, 345). ... She is a mother, pale with fear, Her boy clings to her side, And in her kirtle vainly tries His trembling form to hide He is not hers, although she bore For him a mother's pains; He is not hers, although her blood Is coursing through his veins! ... The Slave Mother is about a mother and child waiting fearfully to be sold at auction. ... She is extremely wor...

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Kant expresses his view that "these guardians make their domestic cattle stupid and carefully prevent the docile creatures from taking a single step without the leading-strings to which they have fastened them" The novel reflects Kant's views in places, when Robinson Crusoe's parents, particularly his father, try to prevent Robinson from acting on his curiosity, and from finding out more about the world. ... Crusoe, like many British Colonists, saw the 'Moor' people as inferior, and even savage like, so Crusoe would have felt little remorse about leaving the youn...

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This story begins by telling about a twenty seven year old man named Henry. ... A little boy that walked by was eating a pair, but he took one bite and threw it down. ... Right as they walked away and Henry was about to get the pair some guys stopped him. ... Huck starts to worry about his father and Jim eventually told him that his father was the dead man on the house. ...

• Word Count: 1889
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• Grade Level: High School

The land of Rameses," in which the family of Jacob settled (Gen 47:11), was in northeastern Egypt, where they maintained a royal residence from about 1300 BC onward. ... In business a slave could be a delivery-boy and a janitor. ... A slave could make arrangement with his owner about how he could earn his or her freedom. ...

• Word Count: 2077
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• Grade Level: High School