But since the niece was only three years old, Jacobs" actual master was the father, Dr. ... Flint and his daughter to locate her and return her to slavery in the South. ... The male narrator was under no compulsion to discuss his sex life, nor did he need to talk about his children he may have fathered outside marriage. ... However his eldest daughter, Rosetta, tells a different story in which she talks about Anna Murray, a free black woman, who helps Douglass in his escape. ... Her story ends with freedom; not in the usual way with marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Until Jacobs was six years old, she lived in a house with her brother, mother, and father. ... Flint's five-year-old daughter. Jacobs' father dies suddenly and she is denied the right to go to his funeral. ... Jacobs' motive for her story was political. ... The fact that the mother would want her daughter and grandchild dead is testimony to slaves' unimaginable suffering. ...

• Word Count: 1073
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It turns out the whole time, Portia was one the men's step daughter, and it was all a set up. ... Huck's father steals Huck when he found out that Mrs. ... Eventually Huck gets tired of his father and plans an escape route. ... It was Huck's father, but Jim didn't tell Huck. ... Huck starts to worry about his father and Jim eventually told him that his father was the dead man on the house. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

• Word Count: 1882
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Her father was a carpenter, while her mother was a house slave. ... A few years after the birth of their first comes their daughter Louisa Matilda, born in 1833. ... While working, she and her daughter Louisa Matilda opened up a school in Virginia, and Jacobs runs a boarding home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Harriet was only in the Norcom's residence for a year when her young mistress passed away and she was left with her mistress's father, Dr. ... Her story was a powerful one. ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was born to Harriet Bailey, a slave, and believed to have been fathered by his master. Douglass was never able to prove that his master was his father, he only assumed because his skin was so light compared with his mother's. Slave children fathered by their master were often given special treatment. ... He now falls under the ownership of Lucretia Auld, daughter of his master. ... In his narrative he includes vivid descriptions and horrifying stories of life as a slave....

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After the unfortunate death of St.Clare and his daughter Tom is sold to a wicked plantation owner,Simon Legree,up the Red River. ... Eva takes ill and soon dies but before she goes she asks her father to free Tom and he promises to do so. ... This Book discusses love on many levels.Tom and his wife show how it is important to love God.Eva and St.Clare along with Mrs.Shellby and other characters through out the book demonstrate the importance of loving all humans.While Eliza and her family show how love will help a family through hard times.Also,Stowe weaves many examples of a mothers love i...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After the unfortunate death of St.Clare and his daughter Tom is sold to a wicked plantation owner,Simon Legree,up the Red River. ... Eva takes ill and soon dies but before she goes she asks her father to free Tom and he promises to do so. ... This Book discusses love on many levels.Tom and his wife show how it is important to love God.Eva and St.Clare along with Mrs.Shellby and other characters through out the book demonstrate the importance of loving all humans.While Eliza and her family show how love will help a family through hard times.Also,Stowe weaves many examples of a mothers love into...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It makes white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched... "Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers. ...

• Word Count: 5222
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Late 19th - Century American Literature Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson as a critique of 19th Century hierarchies based on racial segregation Mark Twain: Mark Twain was born on November 30th of the year 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His first job was as a printer and 1856 as a steamboa...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School