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What Does Thomson Represent In Day Of Tears By Hg Wells

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The writer uses multiple literary devices when developing and explaining the actions of characters. Sampson is a character in Day of Tears by Julius Lester, that shows how a character fluctuates in their point of view. Sampson began as a slave to a horrible overseer. He had strongly disliked being a slave because he knew nothing else except for pain and hardship. His was pitied and taken to a different plantation. The owner treated slaves well and even though it was still slavery, compared to his previous life, he was in heaven. He may have liked the owner but he didn’t tell them when his son and the son’s friends tried to escape. He knew if his son knew he didn’t tell the owner they tried to escape, his son would be proud. A few examples of literary techniques used in the story to develop Sampson would be flash forward, flashback, and his own thoughts. …show more content…

He realizes that when he was Charlie’s age, he wanted to escape the previous plantation he on. He lived on a plantation in Alabama where no one hated slavery more than him. Sampson remembered while laying on his pallet, “First time he put the lash on me I was working on the fields… ...But I didn’t need no reason. I wanted to kill him with my bare hands… ...So that night I ran away... ...I overheard one of the old slaves say that you could be free if you follow the North Star” (Lester 128-129). Sampson is stilling in his pallet wishing his son would understand. He should tell Charlie, but he can’t bring himself to do it. The literary devices of flashback and thought have been used to show this side of Sampson. The side of hatred for

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