... would cause him to get the lower end of the barrel. This is definitely the case when he speaks to Bono, a close friend, about his trouble at work. "I ain't worried about them firing me. They gonna fire me cause I asked a question? That's all I did. I went to Mr. Rand and asked him, "Why?" ... driving and the colored lifting?" Told him, "what's the matter, don't I count? You think only the white fellows got sense enough to drive a truck. That ain't no paper job! Hell, anybody can drive a truck. How come you got all whites driving and the colored lifting? He told me "take it to the union."...

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... ) Besides that, the use of double negatives in sentences. You may have heard that using double negative is grammatically incorrect. As an example from the song "Ain't got no rest for the wicked ". If there "ain't got no rest for the wicked " it would actually mean that there are some rest for the wicked. In addition saying things like "I didn't not like ... express our thoughts this way than actually saying "The wicked isn't getting any rest " or "I did like the... " This point leads to another point, the habit of using the word "ain't ". Although it is an acceptable term in our moderniz...

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... . I said I wouldn't, and I"ll stick to it. Honest injun I will. People would call me a low Ablitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don't make no difference. I ain't agoing to tell, and I ain't a going back there anyways. So now, le's know all about it" (37). Huck begins to learn the importance of keeping a promise. He realizes that the things he says ... taking what he has learned from society and applying it to his own life. He learns that "a body that don't get started right when he's little, ain't got no show - when the pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and ...

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... in to understand how she finally dies. The first of these ways would be how Whit and George talk about her in the opening lines of the section. "Well ain't she a looloo?" "I ain't seen too much of her" said George Whit laid down his cards impressively. Whit is merely pointing out that he has seen Curley's wife and that he thinks she ... the blokes " eyeing them up" then Curley would not be best pleased. Whit recognizes George's concerns with Curley's wife "eyeing up" everyone and replies " I see what you mean. No, they ain't been nothing yet" I feel Whit knows that she is going to cause...

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... to his lack of mental abilities, Crooks, due to his race, and Curley's wife because she is a woman. "You go on get outta my room. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain't wanted in my room. Why ain't you wanted?" Lennie asked. "Cause Im black. They play cards in there but I cant play cause I'm black..." (Steinbeck 67). People judge and discriminate their ... ...

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... very well what I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get started right when he'd little ain't got no show.Then I thought a minutes'pose you'd 'a' done right and give Jim up, would you feel better than what you do now? No.Well, then what's the use you ... learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages just the same? (95) Huck subconsciously protected Jim from capture. There was a lasting sense of innocence in Huck at this point, which ... what it was about. He was thinkin...

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... the Shepardsons shot at them from the riverbank. Seeing this horrible violence left a huge impact on Huck. He said, "It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't a-going to tell all that happened "it would make me sick again I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things ... . I ain't ever going to get shut of them "lots of times I dream about them."" Earlier in the novel, Chapter 13, Huck and Jim come across the "Walter Scott-, a steamboat that ... and Jim stole the boat, Huck pondered what he had just done. He said, "I begun to think how dreadful it was, ...

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... for it but his own self. I reckon that's a considerable sight better'n killin' of him. I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" He makes this statement about the other man they have lying in the boat. Packard's companion is so mislead that he thinks it a lesser crime to watch ... ...

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... for it but his own self. I reckon that's a considerable sight better'n killin' of him. I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" He makes this statement about the other man they have lying in the boat. Packard's companion is so mislead that he thinks it a lesser crime to watch ... ...

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... ; but when they told me there was a state in the country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in I says to the people, why ain't this nigger put up at auction and sold?- (35) From the beginning, Huck has been taught the prejudices of society. The pinnacle of Huck's immorality is shown when Tom Sawyer ... to worry about the me "I reckon I hadn't time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like i...

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... up in jail if he kept hanging out on the corner. James told Chicken-Man that he was a smart guy. Chicken-Man said, "Everybody on this corner is smart. You ain't no smarter than anybody here. If you were so smart, why you got to come on this corner every summer? "Cause you flunkin" school! You think if you dropped out ... of school somebody's gonna beg you to go back. What makes you so special that they"ll beg you! Who are you? You ain't nobody! If you want to drop out of school and shoot people and hang on this corner all your life, go ahead. It's your life!" By Chicken-man telling Jame...

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... not understand, but what it takes to be a man James knows he must do. Gaines writes an example of this writing: "I"m scared of the dark, too, but I make "tend I ain"t. I make tend I ain"t cause I"m the oldest, and I got to set a good sample for the rest. I can"t ever be scared and I can"t ever cry" (476). Another example is presented when James catches two ... ...

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... , I want her right here," I would say, "Mister, I don't blame you none. I wouldn't pass up a chance to live in a permanent place and get the sweetest girl in the world myself. You ain't no fool," I would say."" (O"Connor 220). This not only exposes the daughter's true innocence and lack of control of her own fate, but also foreshadows the intentions that O"Connor has ... ...

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... . She is a very free-spirited young African-American woman. She looks at the bottom and top of the social ladder as the same. Sula says, "You say I"m a woman and colored. Ain't that the same as being a man?" (Pg. 142). She also says, "I don't know everything, I just do everything." (Pg. 143). She is the only person in the story who rejects the ... ...

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... physical properties, but of emotional ones. She begins to have us think about the emotions and the minds of not what's to come, but who is to come. Tea Cake ain't been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself. Don't keer what it was, she could stop and say a few words with us. She act like we done ... ...

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... herself: Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?" ( 112 ) Even though Sylvia was making this involuntary analysis and comparison about the money these people would spend in unnecessary goods, she still has not changed her ... ...

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... escape from control. As they become less and less submissive, the characters become better people. Cheswick, for one, is much more self-confident, and challenges Nurse Ratched on various matters. "I ain't no little kid to have cigarettes kept from me like cookies! We want something done about it- (pg. 149). He is one of the first patients, besides McMurphy, to stick ... ...

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... 's prime example, Pap, quoted, "There was a free nigger there from Ohio... They said he was a p"fessor in college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home." This displays Pap's racist opinions and feelings toward blacks. Pap was shocked to hear that a black could be ... ...

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... to add "A social movement throughout history; a struggle to end sexist oppression; varies according to class, race, and ethic group. "Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression." (Bell Hooks, author of Ain't I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism, 1984) Throughout history women have worked hard to improve their lives in the schools, in workplaces, and in communities. They worked for the equal social, political ... ...

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... to Huck about helping him escape from Ms. Watson and Huck mentions that "people would call [him] a low down Abolitionist and despise [him] but that don't make no difference [he] ain't agoing back there anyways" (52-53). Huck reveals his struggle between his heart and conscience here. His conscience is telling him that he would be hated if people knew that ... ...

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... I begun to worry about the men- I reckon I hadn't time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like it?"(Twain, 67) This is the first time that Huck questions the effects of what ... ...

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... thirty-four when Tom said "That's more LIKE," he says. ""It's real mysterious, and troublesome, and good," he says; "but I bet we can find a way that's twice as long. There ain't no hurry; let's keep on looking around."" Tom does not seem to comprehend that Jim is an actual human being and not a possession lying around with no feelings, plans, or ... ...

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... I begun to worry about the men- I reckon I hadn't time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like it? (76). This is the first time that Huck questions the effects of what he ... ...

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... voice their opinion, for fear of going against society's standards and being outcast or being stoned. "It's not the way it used to be," Old Man Warner said clearly. "People ain"t the way they used to be." The population fears that if they go against society they might be chosen as the lottery winner - or they fear that it would disrupt ... ...

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... treated equally. He did not realize that an enemy can be hidden in a friendly place. Also, right after the white man throws the empty whisky bottle at Richard, he says. "Ain"t you learned to say sir to a white man yet?"(200). Richard felt no necessity to say since he had never had to say it before. He was not treated with ... ...

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