Kindred Writing Activity The fire, page 36: “I could literally smell his sweat, hear every ragged breath, every cry, every cut of the whip. I could see his body jerking, convulsing, straining against the rope as his screaming went on and on. My stomach heaved, and I had to force myself to stay where I was and keep quiet. Why didn’t they stop!” In the middle of the night, four white men storm into a cabin in the woods while four others wait outside. The cabin belongs to Alice and her mom. The four men pull out Alice’s father along with her mom, both are naked.
Alice manages to scramble away. The men question Alice’s father about a pass, which allows him to visit his wife. Her father tries to explain the men about the loss of the pass but the men do not pay any attention to him. Instead they tie him to a tree and one of the white man starts to whip him for visiting his wife without the permission of Tom Weylin, the “owner” of Alice’s father. Tom Weylin forbid him to see his wife, he ordered him to choose a new wife at the plantation, so he could own their children. Since Alice’s mother is a free woman, her babies would be free as well and would be save from slavery.
But her freedom “status” does not stop one of the pa troller to punch her in the face and cause her to collapse to the ground. Meanwhile, you can hear the noise of the whip clutching against the back of Alice’s father. He forces himself to stay quiet under this unbelievable pain and humiliation in front of his family. His face shows the pain and he is sweating but still no sound, until he breaks down and starts to beg for forgiveness.
The Essay on Of Mice and Men – Curleys Wife
How does Steinbeck use language and structure to portray curleys wife? Firstly, her first description is in chapter two just after George and lennie have arrived on the ranch. When we first read her description we realise she is all dressed in red, she wore “red mules”, “red ostrich feathers” and her “finger nails were red”. The author uses this symbolic language technique to help us understand ...
After a while, the white man who happens to be a pa troller stops whipping him and with the help of the other pa trollers he unties him from the tree and turns him around and ties his hands in front of him. Then, the pa troller holds the rope while riding away with his horse and dragging the man behind him. The other pa trollers follow him but one of them stays with Alice’s mother. All the beating and violence occur in front of Alice’s eyes who still tries to hide in the bushes.
