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A 10 page paper which examines how animal imagery (particularly dog imagery) is used in the descriptions, almanac citations, and dialogue to evaluate their significance and how they contribute to the story’s meaning. No additional sources are used.
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File: TG15_TGdogpuddn.rtf
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a disaster, and the black men, women, and children that had been freed by President Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation were still being held captive by the belief that their race
was somehow biologically and intellectually inferior. During this same time, Charles Darwins theory of evolution, which had been published back in 1859 under the title of Origin of Species,
was receiving considerable international attention. According to Darwin - all living things have some kind of common thread that unites them. Mutations have occurred over a period of
time in order to ensure a better quality of survival. However, some species, it seems, have evolved to a greater level than others in a process known as natural
selection. This means that only the species with the highest qualities survive while the lesser varieties die off or become extinct. To many white Americans, especially those living
south of the Mason-Dixon line, this appeared to be vindication that the plantation owners had been right all along; the black slave was indeed inferior to the white man.
He was violent and primitive, closer to the animal than was the civilized white man. So this by implication meant that in the natural order, the black man and
the animal were indistinguishable. This was the prevailing attitude with which author, humorist, and storyteller Mark Twain took issue in his final novel, Puddnhead Wilson (1896). A work that
took an unpopular view of the roots of slavery, Twain contended within its pages that prejudice was perpetuated not by nature, but rather by the environment in which a person
was raised. Beliefs, this text alleges, are developed through social conditioning and not transmitted genetically. The title character wryly observes, "I think there is nothing more pathetic
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