It seems that around the time that he was writing that many readers were fascinated by local color stories like it was mentioned in the text. It surprises me Harris wrote a lot of his books based on his experiences from blacks he had known while working as a youth on a Georgia plantation.
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox was very difficult to read due to all of the misspelled words and the dialect. I do not like how Harris portrayed the black community with the poor dialect. It was almost like he made them sound uneducated. There are places that whites and all races still sound like this today but if a journalist were to write a story I doubt that they would use their dialect, they would just write the word they meant to say in the correct way. Anyway, I did get from the story that Mr. Fox was always trying to hurt Mr. Rabbit. This kind of portrays how the bad guys never wins the battle.
I enjoyed reading Free Joe and The Rest of the World. This reading was much easier to read than the one about the rabbit and the fox. It had a little slang but not much. It portrayed the life of slavery versus freed slaves. Even though some of the slaves were so called “free” they truly still did not live a free life. The whites still judged the freed slaves like free Joe and so did the blacks that were still slaves. Even though Joe was free he still wanted to see his wife. It is so sad that the slaves were always separated from their families. The story shows that Joe and Lucinda had an unbreakable bond that nothing could shake. They would not let them see each other but Joe still vowed that he would faithfully wait for her no matter what.
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