Summary On The Underground Railroad

conditions. One time there was a run away slave, but he was captured and Harriet was told to

knows that they live alone there is miss Cora. Miss Cora watches over them and

Having escaped from a Maryland plantation in 1849, she became very familiar with the roads hiding places that were used to conduct runaways to freedom in the North. She was a brave, courageous, wise and kind person. Not only did she concern herself about her liberty but was concerned about all races. One reason why the underground railroad is so popular among people throughout the world is that people of all races and colors came together.

(2) Perhaps the most effective and dramatic aspect of The Underground Railroad was Mr. Whitehead’s decision to present characters with little or no background information and then detail that information in dramatic fashion in later chapters devoted exclusively to that character. This decision by the author to “jump around in time and space” was especially noteworthy with respect to Cora’s mother, Mabel. Throughout the novel, we are led to believe that Mabel had run away from the Randall plantation while purposely leaving her young daughter behind to suffer as a slave. Cora is portrayed repeatedly as resenting her mother for not taking her when she had escaped. “Once Mabel ran, Cora thought of her as little as possible. After landing in South Carolina, she realized that she had banished her mother not from sadness but from rage. She hated her.” (98) Further, despite extensive searches by the slave catcher, Ridgeway, no evidence of

The Underground Railroad is a story about a slave’s journey to freedom from the harsh life she is currently facing on her plantation. Cora, the slave the story is centered on, makes the decision to leave the severe conditions she faces and travel north via the underground railroad. She crosses the threshold from the ordinary world she lives in to the special world of uncertainty as soon as she runs away with Caesar, a friend from the plantation. Her journey isn’t easy and as the story progresses, the more obstacles come her way. However, the biggest obstacle Cora faces is Ridgeway, the slave catcher who wants to bring Cora back to the

iv. His Parents Levin and Sidney were both slaves on the Eastern shore of Maryland

“I assume it has something to do with House’s bunker, my lord.” The words leave a bitter taste in her mouth, but Caesar is pleased by both her knowledge and servility.

Third, in chapter 5 Cora decided to go back to her husband after traveling a “quarter of a mile” out of town with Frank. I believe that Cora decided that Frank was no longer useful in helping her achieve her goal of independence (Cain, 1992, pg. 42).

and she started to exercise some more of her power as mistress of the house, like when she ordered Mrs. Danvers to get rid of Rebecca’s old things. Once she had accepted her role in the house, her role in the marriage was secure. Because of this, their bond remained strong even when the house was burned down, and maybe even became

She wanted to go back. She didn’t want to be in the country anymore. So much for that victory. This author represents different views in this story. You have the nature view of things and the different beliefs. He also shows danger and suspense. Reading this story made me think about how common it is now a day for a woman to have such pull over a man. Everything having to be her way. She doesn’t care who or what is in the way, or what anyone has to say. And for men just to give up as easy as they do. Then you have the woman who doesn’t listen. She is always right and what her man has to say means nothing, even if it means saving her life. I also liked how in some way this story reminded me of Adam and Eve. They were put in a garden to experience nature and the world and God forbade them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve was told to eat the fruit, she then shared it with Adam. God was not happy with them and curses them. Sylvia was in the same type of situation, in that her husband warned her about the god Pan. She didn’t believe in it so she carried on, and took something that belonged to the woods. She upset the nature god and there was no more

They were no major noble house and she had doubted Celene would have cared to reclaim Haven had the family actually been a house of better reputation. Still it was her job to attempt to please him so she spent almost 2 hours fluffing up the mans already overinflated ego until finally she had been able to get him to leave with the thinly veiled threat of a duel against Cassandra. The

When she decides to remodel her father’s house he left for her and her sister she finally is for the first time completely independent and free from the control of others. This house is a symbol of her freedom and the fact that she had the say in how it would turn out solidifies her growth into a strong independent woman. She had to break free from the restraints that were holding her back in order to find out who she was meant to be in life and who she really

All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry.” In other words, she is a person who doesn’t care if she can afford it, she just wants to have a house that looks good so she is seen as better than her neighbours and other clerk families. Some may argue that she just likes a neat and pretty house, but if that was so, she would clean it and do her own housekeeping. To prove this point, the first page reads “The sight of the little Breton peasant who did her humble house-work aroused in her regrets which were despairing, and distracted dreams.” To put it differently, she cares about how she looks to the rich compared to her fellow clerk families, and the sight of someone doing humble housework makes her regret not doing it herself.

Alicia spent her entire autumn in this strange love-nest. But she had determined to cast a veil over her dreams of old, and still lived in the hostile house, trying not to think of anything until her husband came home.

This single decision, of sending Tess to the d'Urberville, and making her leave the sheltered life and town of Marlott that she had known for so long would be the change in her life that would lead to so many other events for her. Had Tess not been sent to the d'Urberville home, she would not have met Alec nor would she have bore his child out of wedlock and her life would have been completely different.After her son died, Tess's shame overtook her and she left her birthplace of Marlott to find work at a dairy called Talbothay's. Here, she told nothing of her past and only came to work, where the surroundings were peaceful, calm and quite lush in vegetation. After much delay and postponement, Tess would accept the marriage proposal of a co-worker named Angel Clare, who was in love with her.