My book is called Dear America: A Picture of Freedom. The author is Patricia C McKissack. The setting of the book is The Belmont Plantation, which is located near Richmond Virginia, in 1859. The time is in the fifteen hundreds. It is in on a farm. The author’s purpose of writing this book is to inform. It is a nonfiction book.
Clotee is a twelve year old slave girl, Aunt Tee is a sixty four year old and is the midwife and the chef, Uncle Heb is the gardener, Spicy is a house worker then field worker, Miz Lilly and Mas Henley are Clotee’s masters. William is the master’s son. Mr. Hams is the tutor and an abolitionist. Hince is the jockey, Missy is a tattletale, Waith is the overseer, Rufus is a field worker and he is the father of Baby Noah, Angie is the mother of Baby Noah, she is also a field worker. Wook is the other daughter of Angie and Rufus. Lee is the husband of wook.
My favorite characters are Hince, Spicy, Clotee, and Aunt Tee. The reason they are my favorite they remind me of my family. Hince is just like my uncle Jay, he is wild. Spicy reminds me of myself because I am clumsy. Clotee reminds me of my grandma Gay because she tries to help everybody. Aunt Tee reminds me of my Great Aunt Maggie because she has a short temper.
Clotee taught herself to read and write, if she tells the wrong person she will be whipped. She plans to help all the people who are close to her by helping them escape. She does this with the
Alyssa Cassano March 8, 2014 Poetry explication essay English 104 “DEAR WORLD” “Dear world” by Paula Gunn Allen is a poem that elaborates on the living and the dead who have experienced the internal isolation of feeling that you do not belong. Isolation is defined as the process or fact of isolating or being isolated. This poem illustrates many literary elements which are expressed throughout the poem. Allen explains the context…
May 1st, 3:30 A.M., 2008 Dear Diary, We just reached the U.S.A. The war between the Igbo Kingdom and the McDilen Kingdom is finally over. We rescued Queen Genevieve and brought her back to the Igbo Kingdom in Africa. After three years of war, I think it is fair to say that I made it out alive. Our Pirate was killed so now we have to figure out a way to make it back home safely without getting brutally killed by all other unknown dangers. The U.S.A is definitely diverse. There are many Caucasians…
chosen to write about a strong, young girl, Hye, who was exposed to an unforgettable trauma, which caused her to resent the country she was born in, North Korea. We will witness her journey from being a brainwashed North Korean citizen into a free American citizen through the diary entries. These diary entries elucidate Hye’s struggles as a North Korean and how that shaped her into the person she is today. The diary entries are informal because Hye, like any other girl, wrote them depending on how…
To My Dear and Loving Husband, by Anne Bradstreet is a beautiful poem which seems to be in dedication to her husband which is obvious by the title. To me, her words are a beautiful representation of what a marriage should feel like. It is clear by her words in lines 5-7, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/Or all the riches that the East doth hold/My love is such that rivers cannot quench” (Bradstreet, 5-7), that she has an immensely deep love for her husband, so deep that no such thing…
concerning the use of repetitions and a simple rhyme scheme. The poem is divided into tercet whose first two lines rhyme while the third present a repetition. Through the whole song there is a refrain as the author always repeat the words "My dear". Almost every stanza starts with a verb and this device helps to convey in the text the idea of improvisation and common speech. The structure of the text is carried on through the use of contrasting images: the mansions and the holes, expressing…
Refugee Blues W. H. Auden’s poem of despair, misery, and isolation, “Refugee Blues”, describes the hardships faced by two German Jewish refugees attempting to escape Hitler’s Germany. Published in autumn, 1939, Auden is surrounded by the anti-Sematic hatred that is growing in Germany six months prior to the outbreak of World War II. Auden utilizes this environment and the experiences of German Jews to express the abuse of human rights and the sentiments of refugees. For the near two thousand…
retired to his hillside compound in Hawaii). True leaders leave conditions better than they found them, not worse or in a state of irreparable damage. Ubama has a close circle of friends and advisors who live in their elitist political bubble. The Dear Leader is fed information that conforms to his existing world view and prejudices-- never anything that challenges or confronts his established beliefs. He has no interest in any opposing viewpoint, or building relationships with people he should…
Jesse Miller The American Dream Questions: :What is the American Dream? :Where did it come from? :How has it shaped our society in America? :How do you obtain the American dream? :Is the American Dream Dead? “What is the American dream?” The American Dream is basically opportunity. Every American has the same opportunities, whatever your dream, it is achievable. Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than…
Dear Mr.Washington, My name is Richard Harrison. I am writing to inform you of my opinion of the ratification of the United States Constitution that the 55 delegates wrote in Philadelphia. Without the ratification of the Constitution, citizens will not have rights and the country will face even more problems than usual. The rafification will benefit and help all Americans. With the Constitution, the separation of powers…
What I Would Tell America’s Founding Fathers Dear founding fathers of the United States of America, I would like to address this letter to you all to inform you on our economy and society nowadays that you may find appalling. The U.S. government has collected a national debt that is quickly reaching 14 trillion dollars, but we are trying our best to reduce this amount everyday. Many individual Americans owe over 849 dollars on student loans, which is usually more than they owe on their credit…
