Macon tells her they are going to Honore Island. ... One day they go to Feather's pool hall for a beer. ... By the time Milkman is fourteen he notices that one of his legs is shorter than the other by about one half an inch. He compensates for it in many ways such as adopting a particular walk, dancing in a stiff legged way, crossing his leg in only one way, and he never tells anyone about it. ... He realized she was going to visit her father's grave. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and were stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". Sometimes, the height between decks was only eighteen inches, so that the unfortunate beings could not turn round or even on their sides, the elevation being less than the breadth of their shoulders; and here they were usually chained to the decks by the neck and legs. ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... Obama promised the black population change but as the musician Sam Cooke once sang, a "change is gonna come" but when he goes to his brother (the white man); Cooke continues to sing that he "winds up knocking me down, back down on my knees....

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

Losing his brother, Wa-Go (Chi-Muoi Lo), to the excesses of capitalism represented by an Asian criminal gang, Jian-Wa's dream of freedom has turned on him, and, helped by his brother's ghost, he continues on his quest for some sort of resolution as the series follows him on his journey across America. ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate