A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It by Mark Twain
Paper instructions:
Think about the discussion questions you answered in this unit. You are to choose one question to expand upon. Don’t forget to use the text to support your ideas. You are to write a double-spaced, 2 page paper, and attach it here.
How does the dialect inform the experience of reading “A True Story Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It” by Mark Twain? Is Aunt Rachel a more or less sympathetic character because of her language and speech patterns? When she uses the racial epithet “nigger,” is she being racist? Is the narrator? Is Twain?
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