Compare And Contrast The People Could Fly By Harriet Tubman

Compare and Contrast

Slavery. It has ruined our country. Countless innocent people killed. Harriet Tubman had said, “I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” She was a slave and wanted to give the other slaves freedom. In The People Could Fly, people were taken from their homeland and became slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad is about slavery and how people had lived through the day to day life of being a slave. Most notably, these two stories differ in many ways from how the slaves work, have connections, and what they did in everyday life. Similarly, both stories are narrative and have lots of historical facts in them. Harriet Tubman is a true story about a slave girl that wants to free herself, her family, and all the other slaves on her plantation. “She could not, for example, have said how or at what moment she learned that she was a slave” (Petry, 35). On the other hand, in The People Could Fly, it was also a narrative story about slavery, but it had fictional elements and lots of the story was not true, “The say the people could fly” (Hamilton, 41). The people flying was an event in the story that could not happen in real life, so that means that this story had

Ben and Harriet have a very close relationship and, “There was something free and wild in Harriet because of Ben” (Petry, 36). She learned all about the nature, woods, and the weather from her father Ben. Yet in The People Could Fly, Toby and Sarah have a bond as well, but not as close. They were both able to fly and were taken away from Africa to become slaves. This father-daughter relationship shows you that they were going through hard things together. “‘Now father!,’ ‘Yes, Daughter, the time is come,’ Toby answered” (Hamilton, 42) He had helped escape from the horrible Driver and