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only person she could ever turn to, even though he would always let her down. She had spent the past two weeks wondering why she couldn’t just hate him and move on. Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice call out, interrupting her thoughts. “Mayella, ain’t you gonna tuck us in?” It was Burris, her younger brother. Mayella composed herself and walked towards the children’s makeshift bedroom, a thin cotton sheet draped over upright pieces of wood. She entered the bedroom to find the seven children sharing

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”-To Kill A mocking Bird. Although rarely mentioned in the book, the idea of killing a mocking bird appears very significant in Harper lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, hence the title. Lee uses this idea of the literal killing an innocent bird as a representation for the major

in my way, there's nothing but doom Ain't got no time for you ratchet-ass goons And

Think I don’t like to stick in that house alla time?” This shows how much she wants to stay in Crooks’ room, and be able to chat with people, for she is quite lonely. “Sure I gotta husban’. You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he? Spends all his time sayin’ what he’s gonna do to guys he don’t like, and he don’t like nobody. Think I’m gonna stay in that two-by-four house and listen how Curley’s gonna lead with his left twice, and then bring in the ol’ right cross?” show how

Walter is jealous over Beneatha getting half of the money for medical school. He tells her, “me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you”. Walter is resentful toward Beneatha asking for money for school. He says “now ain’t that fine! You just got your mothers interest at heart, ain’t you girl? You such a nice girl-but if Mama got that money she can always take a few thousand and help you through school too can’t she”. Reader can feel Walter’s resentment by his tone of voice says “bitterly”. Walter

sand for Troy, on one side is his family and his house, but on the other side is everything else. Troy also talks about the devil in this play and how the devil was coming for him, so the fence also represents a line between him and the devil. “Death ain’t nothing to play with.

In the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech, by Sojourner Truth, and the “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” essay, written by Mary Wollstonecraft, the rights and place of women in this nation are discussed. The tones used in the two passages are much different from each other. In Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I a Woman”, she uses very lax phrasing and wording in order to portrays a very straight-forward tone. Phrases like “all talkin’ ‘bout rights”(Truth 651), “be in a fix pretty soon”(651), and “that’s

is jealous of the men who stare at it. It is there for him to stare at, not others. They make fun of Matt Bonner's mule more and decide to play a joke on Matt. Some of the town members stand around the mule and tease it. "Naw, Ah ain’t no young gal no mo’ but den Ah ain’t no old woman

“And ain’t I a woman?” exclaims the enigmatic persona titled Sojourner Truth. Her words are coated in southern batter and hickish grime. She speaks to a crowd of like-minded individuals, an array of women gathered before her, listening with bated breath, clinging to her relatable dialect. “Ain’t I A Woman?” is a speech that wears a veil of innocence and confidence and purity over its steely passionate cries for female equality. However, its actual conception was not so simple; the speech was first

you loved me then you fled Now you got me seeing red Cause you don’t know your own strength This stuff pushed me to the edge And you couldn’t miss me with the bull So you going to miss me when I’m dead Cause damn, tomorrow ain’t promised So if I die today, tomorrow ain’t