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Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
2,083 wordsWriters differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Toms Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. S...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Begins To Feel
2,046 words... kes one wonder if there had been a divine intervention or supernatural force involved. By creating such a fictional scene, Stowe is able to aid the reader realize how desperate Eliza is to obtain freedom; an inborn right given to all human beings. Haley also focuses on the slave's determination for freedom by portraying several of Kunta's escapes. Although Kunta is never successful, he never gives up his hope of returning to his village and reuniting with his family. He always looks around h...
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Man Named Poor White
1,810 wordsThe book might be one of the most significant books in American History. It is the epic tale of blacks in American History and the roles they played in everyday society. How the were sunned by society and treated like lowly creatures. Most peoples concepts of blacks were stupid creatures that needed to be handled. Most of the whites in the South thought that they were doing them a favor. They were teaching them how to work, respect others, listen and follow orders. The book makes you realize the...
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Girl Named George Told
1,818 words... o upset we he found George gone one night. But George explained to him that he had be out tom catting. After that Master Lea gave George a traveling pass so he could go out at night without getting into trouble. But he told George that if he found out George was doing other things then what he was suppose to be doing he would rip up the pass and teach him a lesson. George finally decided to settle down so he met a girl on a neighboring plantation named Matilda. Matilda was a good Christian w...
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Born A Slave Kunta And Fiddler Freedom
759 wordsIn Africa, where people can live in peace. Tribes live freely in the vast country, doing what they please, living like human beings. They have families, friends, religion, and a culture, like what we have now. That was what it was like for Kunta Kunta from the movie "Roots", a young African male, that was kidnapped from his home. They put him in chains, and shipped him over to America with about 1000 of his own people. His freedom was destroyed the second they forced him on the evil boat. He was...
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White Men K K
565 wordsThe steady Root 2 Roots The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toulon were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. In this sentence from Roots, by Alex Haley, the author used specific words to produce an effect in the reader. For example, Haley used murmuring instead of the more usual talking Haley used murmuring rather than the more usual talking because Kunta and the other prisoners developed a deepening ...
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