In the corner of the stage there is an industrial pipe tree that is covered with artificial moss in Act I that is later transformed into a futuristic tree to represent the effect of time passing. ... The lines and dynamics are very clean but there is somewhat of an imbalance with the placement of the tree to the choreography. ... I genuinely believe Abraham intended to give a clear point across to the audience. ...

• Word Count: 744
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", roots are noticeable and it gives us the meaning of the poem. ... Through images and details the poem showed strong pictures related to veins in the human body, rivers, and the roots of trees. ... This means the rivers are not like roots growing wildly and penetrating roots of a tree or human veins. Rivers are the same as the soul of humans having no ending, similar to tree roots that reach deep into the earth, both the river and the human veins are nurtured. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the water, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dishwater gives back no images." ... "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou gives the audience an idea of the way some people have overcome such things as being a woman in the nineteen forties and being a black American in Arkansas at that time. ...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although Lina warns Florens that she is "one leaf on his tree," Florens insists that she is "his tree" (Morrison 71). ... Finally as the story progresses, the characters experience betrayal, which gives them lasting effects and changes them both physically and emotionally....

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The use of them demonstrated how the south was not willing to give former slaves their freedom, thus conveying that the reconstruction of the South was a wreck. ... Portrayed from Document F, the donkey is symbolized as the Ku Klux Klan and the white men hanging from the tree were republican supporters. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3

There was no room at the public hitching trail for another animal, mules and wagons were parked under every available tree. ... The townspeople don't really care about Tom because of his colour and don't even give him a chance because he is black. ...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The use of them demonstrated how the south was not willing to give former slaves their freedom, thus conveying that the reconstruction of the South was a wreck. ... Portrayed from Document F, the donkey is symbolized as the Ku Klux Klan and the white men hanging from the tree were republican supporters. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3

The use of them demonstrated how the south was not willing to give former slaves their freedom, thus conveying that the reconstruction of the South was a wreck. ... Portrayed from Document F, the donkey is symbolized as the Ku Klux Klan and the white men hanging from the tree were republican supporters. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3

Harry Crews was not old enough to work on the farm so he spent his days playing in the shade under the oak tree watching his mom, his brother, and Willalee Bookatee pick the worms off the plants. ... Willalee however knew his place in the relationship, "Willalee almost never argued with what I decided to do, up to and including giving away the worms he had spent all morning collecting." (396) The story suggested that Harry, being a young boy, could not comprehend why Willalee was not allowed to eat at his house while he could go over to his freely. ... "Jim grabbed the newest hoe for himself...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through a crystal-clear depiction of Southern life in the twentieth century, strongly suggestive vocabulary, and the pure illustration of the divide between the races, Hurston gives the audience a captivating taste of segregation. ... Not only is the religious element evident in the underlying theme of good versus evil, but is shown in many allusions such as the song about the River Jordan, the constant mention of the snake, and the reference to the Chinaberry tree. ...

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School