The Invention Of Wing Extract Analysis

The Invention of Wing is a book set in 1803, in America. The exam sheet presents an extract from the book, which offers the point of view of both Hetty, a young black girl, and Sarah, a young white girl. The Invention of Wing is set in 1803, and at the time, slavery was still legal and black people had little to no rights. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book set in the 1930s, almost 100 years apart from The Invention of Wing. However, when looking into the two texts, it is clear that they both share some of the same issues when it comes to racial issues.

In the extract from the exam sheet, there are two different stories, and the first one is Hetty’s, or Handful’s, story. In this story, a girl name Hetty is introduced. She is a young black girl,

This is revealed when Sarah will not accept Hetty as a gift. Furthermore, Sarah’s view on slavery is confirmed later on, in Sarah’s own story, shown by her own thoughts, “As if she was mine after all. As if owning people was as natural as breathing. For all my resistance about slavery, I breathed that foul air, too.”. Sarah shows concern for Hetty, as she is afraid that her mother punished Hetty for urinating by accident. Sarah’s views on slavery is rather rare, especially when her family is taken in to consideration. At page 1 of 3, in Appendix 4, Hetty’s mother states that a lot of the slaves from the missus household has been sent to plantations. This would indicate that Sarah’s family is from the south, seeing as plantations were not needed in the north. People in the north also had a more humane view on black people, compared to the general view the south had. Sarah’s mother, the missus, has a more strict view on slavery and black people. However, when Sarah asks her mother if she punished Hetty for the accident, the missus responds by saying “Do you think me inhuman, Sarah? The girl had an accident. What could I do?”. This indicates that even though the missus is a slave-owner, she still has a knowledge that these people are mere humans who makes

The story is set in a little town, in the 1930s, almost 100 years after the events from The Invention of Wing. However, there is still a lot of racism and prejudice present, even though there is an approximate 100 year divide between the two stories. The main issues in To Kill a Mockingbird, is racism and systematic oppression. In the book, a black man is wrongfully accused of raping a white girl. The truth is, that it is the girl’s alcoholic father who is the rapist. Atticus, a very clever and well-reflected lawyer, takes the case in hopes of framing the right person, and through hard work he manages to do that in the