YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Story by a Slave Trader
Essays 151 - 170
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
nature than the concept of slavery. He endeavored to illustrate how oppressing one from living a free life inherently granted to ...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
smallest nuance of kindness or understanding Kemble (1984) displayed was embellished into a lifesaving gesture speaks to the extra...
track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...