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. ... This passage goes on to note how black people laughed and tormented him. ... Before the war Sutpen was forced to sit on the ground and drink while his Sutpen leisured in a hammock (Wash 539). ... But, the black society would have to under a transformation in order to survive. ...

• Word Count: 1688
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• Grade Level: High School

The narrator notes that, "They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all these things because the town bowed down" (80). ... She is beautiful because of the white moonlight she walks under, her "white clothes," the "shiny white" in her eyes, her Negro hair that has a "white flavor," and her "big white hat" (106). ... Janie admires the "ground so rich that everything went wild dirt roads so rich and black" (193). For the first time, richness is not associated with being white or with the strict rules that Janie was made to respect under Jody...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

And The Boys is the story of a relationship, set in times and in under circumstances that make that relationship all but impossible. ... In contrast to the formulaic type of journey in which two people in opposite social strata come to discover that they are really just alike under the skin, "Master Harold- begins with that premise and then abruptly unravels it at the play's end. ... I was running, waiting for it to crash to the ground, but instead suddenly there was something alive behind me at the end of the string, tugging at it as if it wanted to be free . . . ...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School