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     Ralph Ellison was born in 1913 where racism was very much alive. However, years later he applied and got accepted into an all black college by the name of Tuskegee University but as he made his way to the school and got settled in he realized that the all black college is the same as an all white college, he didn’t see not difference only skin color. But during his college life and after in the 1930s the Great Depression had started. Times was already bad for African Americans but this made it worse. During this time blacks were the first to be laid off from jobs that they had been working hard to keep.      The spark of the African Americans coming together to get what they deserved created something called the New Deal. Also, when Ellison book was published in 1945 the Civil Rights Movement was starting to make some noise throughout every state. This was a good time that his book released because it showed how whites looked at blacks and how they categorized them. The book also

Huckleberry Finn - There was a 14 year old white boy by the name of huck who was still trying to find himself through his foster parents. Soon after a time he reached the point when he met his father who he thought was dead and had to go live with him. The problems with him and his father was very dangerous, because his father did not want huck to be better than him even though it was to late for that. Then there came a time when huck was tired of his foster parents trying to force him into something he was not and his abusive father, those things made huck drift away down the Mississippi River. - After times of living alone he runs into the runaway slave by the name of Jim. As he encounters jim they go on many adventures and meeting people and learning as they did. As they moved all round huck began to understand how blacks where considered and looked as and treated. However, huck really liked jim and thats why they were close friends and went on the journey together as partners.