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Saturday, 16 December 2017

"A True Story " short story by "Mark Twain".

A True Story

Short story by "Mark twain"










Introduction:
            "A True story" is written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)better known by his Pen Name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".


The pitiable condition of Negro people in south America:


         This story begins with two characters in which one is the master C and unther is Aunt Rachel.The location is the farm house and it is the summer time.From the very beginning the readers get the ideas of social state and characters level.The narrator name is master C.And the woman who has sad bellow his level is Aunt Rachel. She is servant as she is the black woman , after raining the point of troubles and happiness the narrators asks aunt Rachel about her happy life and to share her secret with him.

         Aunt Rachel answers him that she had lots of trouble in her life then. She begins her story tells: She had a loving and faithful husband with seven children. But unfortunately her husband and six children were sold in and auction. When her last and seventh son Henry was about to be sold , she tried to save her Henry from being sold but she was beaten by her previous master. At last Henry was sold but before that he declared to his mother that he would buy freedom for her.

        As time passe Aunt Rachel got aged a colonel and he appointed her as a cook during the pried she spend at the Colonels house she meet her seventh child Henry who had become a solder at last, after a party, in the morning at seven, she meet Henry infrunt of her with the same remark on his wrist and forehead which he got during his childhood.
   
      This story completes here with a striking messaged that the negro people were oppressed by the american people.
   


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