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SECOND EXAMINATION

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Prof . David Cantrell

English 225

Section One

1 . This quote comes from Harriet Ann Jacobs ' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . The passage can be regarded as a very significant detail of the overall work as it places special emphasis on the painful realities of slavery and racism . This passage presents a dim reality of slaves being deprived of even the simplistic of life privileges that every person deserve . The quote comes from a scene where in the slave girl expresses her

pains upon living a life with enslaved parents . Not even religious expressions nor decent graves were provided for them . Hence this quote somehow summarizes the main protest of slaves amidst their arduous and the very unprivileged life

2 . The quote comes from Herman Melville 's Melville Stories . This passage particularly comes from the story , Benito Cereno . The expression of shadows alongside frequent utterance of the color gray reveals a blurry and seemingly confusing setting . This particular passage appears to emphasize on the obscurity and confusion of Delano about Cerano and Babo 's real motives . In way , it also gives a way a hint which seems to imply that beneath such an apparent gloom is a worse and a more frightful situation . Aside from functioning as a complementing literary device , the passage also appears to reflect several realities about the condition of slavery during those times

3 . This passage comes from Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom 's Cabin The quote describes the...