![]() After faking his own death and on the run, he meets Jim who is a runaway slave with a bounty to his name. ![]() Just when things are improving for Huck, he is kidnapped and mistreated by his no-good father. Huck’s refusal to do so only infuriates Pap. ![]() However, just as things begin to stabilize, Pap returns to the picture and demands Huck give him the money that he had previously attained during an adventure with his best friend Tom Sawyer. Although he dislikes the strict regime of education, manners, church and rigid clothing, which are a necessity to fit into society, Huck prefers anything to his previous life with his drunkard father Pap. ![]() The book opens with a description of Huck’s new life as he undergoes a process of “civilization” while living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. ![]() The plot unfolds in several locations sometime before the Civil War. The novel serves as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, another famous work by Mark Twain. Regarded as the pride and joy of American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picturesque novel depicting Huck’s epic journey from boyhood to manhood and the struggles he must face living in a corrupt society. ![]()
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![]() She also learns that she can use her sight to “read” the history of things. with this knowledge, she is able to teach herself to read. When Sefia was a child she had blocks with letters on them and her parents taught her the sounds. Sefia vows to unlock the secret of the book and free her Aunt, who is the only family she has left. ![]() The Assassins want the book, but her Aunt doesn’t give Sefia away. She escapes through a tunnel, finds her Aunt and they live their life on the run until one day the assassins catch up to them. In this world, books are pretty much unheard of and no one knows how to read. ![]() One day assassins come and kill her parents and she goes into her secret room where she finds an unusual object, a book. However, they had prepared her a hiding place in case something bad happened. ![]() Sefia, the main character of The Reader, had a happy childhood and was loved by her parents and close to her Aunt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ali's mother, Odessa Grady Clay, worked on occasion as a household domestic. In a society where it was often believed that might makes right, "white" was synonymous with both.Īli's father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., supported a wife and two sons by painting billboards and signs. ![]() Growing up in Louisville, the best on the socio-economic ladder most black people realistically could hope for was to become a clergyman or a teacher at an all-black public school. They raked manure in the backstretch at Churchill Downs and cleaned other people's homes. Louisville was a city with segregated public facilities, noted for the Kentucky Derby, mint juleps and other reminders of Southern aristocracy.īlacks were the servant class in Louisville. ![]() You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĬassius Marcellus Clay Jr., as Muhammad Ali was once known, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on Jan. ![]() |