Calpurnia acts like she's the mother of Scout and Jem. Not only does she cook and clean for the Finch's, she also disciplines, advises, and takes care of all Jem's and Scout's needs. Cal is an extremely well educated black woman who lives in two very opposite worlds. In one world...

"Wonderful Ezenzeleni" For here the blind had eyes given to them. In the outside world they were condemned. For here the blind could make anything without the use of eyes as if they were seeing. For here the blind had eyes that glowed and looked through the mind lighting fire in the ...

early in this elaquent novel.. a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation where he finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the cajun although each of the men is toting a shotgun, only one of them could hit a c...

In his short story "salvation", Langston Hughes describes an event that happens in his life. Langston has hatred toward whites and this hatred is expressed in this story. He thinks white people think of their own selves as superiors over everybody. That whites are "saints" and th...