Rose, Troy's wife of eighteen years answers, "Troy, why don't you admit you was too old to play in the major leagues?... In this conflict, Wilson shows how Troy being black is a problem not exclusive, rather in addition to other problems that exist regardless of race. ... Troy is older and with this type of talk and behavior, tries to establish himself as the family leader. ... Troy sees it as a boundary between himself and death in the form of a man. ... Wilson does not portray the characters as poor helpless souls in a sea of self-pity at the mercy of the evil white man. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the natu...

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

Of course that Son assimilated old conventions and cliche sees on life and encompassing individuals, which were likely implemented by his work of mariner and his way of life. ... The triumph of ingenuity that had transferred the bored treachery of the sea into a playful gush of water that did exactly what it was told" (Morrison 1996, p.222). ... For instance, her words concerning Valerian that "he's a person not a white man" (Morrison 1996, p.265) are very symbolic and indicate that she is absolutely different from Son, to a certain extent, racist views. ... This encounter...

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DuBois was really getting stronger and he was also finding non-violent ways to resolve his conflicts with the other children, he later became friends with most of them. ... Elise's father said, "never in all my life had I met such an intellectual and well spoken colored man". ... He only needed one more year, but scholarship funding was now got off to Negroes over seas. ... He referred to Washington as an Uncle Tom, "the white man's toy". ... He died at the ripe old age of 93 on august 27, 1963. ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School