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He relates his skin color with being poor, he explains how poverty leads to crime and signifies the relationship between police brutality and race. This shows how hard life is to be an underprivileged person of color in the United States, with a kindness on issues with police cruelty. Tupac explains how he feels after waking up in the morning contemplating suicide, thinking should he kill himself? he is tired of the fight and struggles an being a poor underprivileged black man in America does not help. He tries to explain that even the police who take a vow to protect and serve turn the other cheek not caring the slightest, but if they shoot a black person they are called a hero.

Hidden Girl by Shyima Hall (with Lisa Wysocky) tells the story of Shyima El-Sayed Hassan, who was sold into slavery when she was eight years old; however, she learns how to use her experience for good, and spreads the awareness of how slavery is still a huge problem today. Shyima was born on September 29,1989 in a small town near Alexandria, Egypt. She was the seventh of eleven children, causing her family to live in poverty. In Egypt, not going to school, being poor, cheating on your wife, and selling your children were seen as normal, as okay. After her sister Zahra was accused of stealing money from the family she worked for, Shyima was sent in her place.

The most uninformed knew at most that the institution was “necessary” for the economic sustainability of the South. The most informed citizens who were not directly involved in the slave trade knew of its cruelty but never saw what occurred inside of the trade houses and on the plantations. In Chapter XXX, the narrator alludes to this in her description of the slave warehouse when she says, “in these days men have learned the art of sinning expertly and genteelly, so as not to shock the eyes and senses of respectable society” (Norton 867). Stowe concedes that not every member of the South is at fault for these continued atrocities. In fact, she argues that one of the main reasons slavery still exists is because slave traders have become experts in hiding the appalling parts of slavery and, in some cases, treat their slaves well.

Hannah tells Kit about how she is an outcast and explains that she is a Quaker. Townspeople outcasted Hannah because she was different. “Back along South Road Kit walked with a light- ness and freedom she had never known since the day she sailed into Saybrook Harbor. Hannah Tupper was far from being a witch, but certainly she had worked a magic charm. In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl 's mind for weeks”(Speare 97).

For most people, childhood is a time that should be celebrated because of the bliss and innocence one experiences then. For others, it is the complete opposite. Those few can describe childhood as being full of uncertainty and fear. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak portrays Liesel’s childhood and adolescence as a time of tribulation and terror after being separated from her family, having to conform to a society she did not agree with, and living surrounded by war and violence. At only nine years of age, Liesel was separated from her biological family.

Examples include Mr Cutter buying life insurance less than 24 hours before he dies, and Nancy writing down the day’s events in her diary. I found that especially heartbreaking, because it shows us how fragile life really is, From Nancy’s point of view, she just notes down the boring uneventful happenings of the day, but after she has been tragically murdered, the readers know the value of those small, uneventful happenings. In a way, Nancy’s diary is a metaphor for the hopes and aspirations of the family they never will never get to fulfil. Nancy writes down her feelings and hopes for a later day, but that day never

In this scenario, they also believed that Jefferson was rightfully charged and made crude, prejudice remarks when discussed. “Should have burned him months ago. I’d pull the switch myself, they ask me” (198). However, Grant’s family cautiously came to be accepting of Vivian when she refers to herself while explaining that not all people of mixed race hate African Americans.

Morrison highlights the extreme parenting steps that Sethe takes to save her children from a life she once lived. Throughout her childhood and into her adulthood, Sethe felt abandoned by her mother when she escaped slavery without taking Sethe with her. Sethe did not want her daughter, Beloved, to feel this

As mentioned in the previous paragraph, a month after Dexter and her engagement she leaves him once again. With this decision Judy never thought about how it would affect Dexter in the long run. Her actions proves that he desire for wealth drives her to only take part in these selfish acts. Winter Dreams concludes when Dexter finally hears of Judy after the end of their engagement.

The two unwanted children sit all day in the late summer heat on a patch of dead grass, between the sidewalk and curb, property that Kathleen tells Lorraine does not belong to anyone. This scene illustrates the profound and enduring pain inflicted on the girls by their mother. In “Alchemy,” Miriam seems to react to Paula’s disappearance without much feeling. Miriam walks by Paula’s house and “stood on the sidewalk out front hoping that wherever Paula was, they would never find her and make her go back again” (73). Paula’s mother, on the other hand, is struck simultaneously by the pain of her daughter’s disappearance and the realization that her husband may have molested her.

In Excerpt 3, it talks about how Frederick’s new mistress started out nice and kind until Slavery turns her into a new cruel person. The mistress teaches Frederick how to read and write the ABC. She, however, was forced to stop teaching Frederick and so Frederick started to trade bread for lessons by kids. In Excerpt 3, Paragraph 2, Frederick tells us; “My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living.

The media prominently portrays slavery to be bad because of all the pysical abuse that happened to slaves, but the silent attacker that effected most all slaves were the ones they couldn’t even see. Psychological abuse is no stable matter, because once the cracks in the foundation of the mind begin to fall a part, it is only a matter of time until the whole person collapeses. Harriet Jacobs was an inspiration then and is an inspiration now because of her strong will to keep going until her and her children were free, and leaving her memories in the

Furthermore, Douglass 's early unhappiness childhood reflected an indictment of slavery, which exposed psychologically to physical impacted of slavery to slave children who lack of love of family. Although, Douglass was separate from his mother, he was raised and has been protected and raised by his grandmother, who took the parenthood responsibility to take care slave’s children whom parents were sold by the slave-owner in the slavery, his childhood not directly experienced the everyday violence of adult slaves. This shaped him was able to go beyond other slaves understand the different between a real person and slave. Douglass recalled the witness of his first slave masters, Captain Anthony, who was whipping Douglass’s Aunt Hester until “the

In Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968), there are many situations that arise throughout Moody’s life, which show hope prevails supporting her ending statement “I WONDER. I really WONDER.” Although there are many stories of murder and racism scattered throughout this story, these events keep a young Essie Mae curious and a young adult Anne Moody determined. Since the curiosity and determination Moody possesses stems from these acts against the Negro population, it ultimately gives her the hope to look forward to the rights she will gain after testifying to the events that have taken place in Mississippi. Every sit-in and protest Moody participates in shows the underlying hope she has that Negros will one day have the same rights as white people.

xLoss of Innocence Innocence is something that is meant to be lost, sooner or later as we grow up. As children we see the world as a safe and happy place, until an event in our life breaks that innocence and we start to see the world for what it truly is. In Alice Walker’s “The Flowers”, she shows an occurrence where a 10 year old girl, Myop loses her innocence after a shocking discovery towards the end of the story. This piece hold fragments of symbolism and imagery to portray the maturing of Myop. The stylistic devices of symbolism and imagery of Alice Walker's story give structure to the horrible ending, also to show how innocence comes to an end as a consequence of going face to face with the cruel reality of the world.