melissa natzke

1-6

"Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. why, looky here. there was a free ______ there from ohio; a mutaltter, most as white as a white man. He had the most whitest shirt on you ever se, too, and the shiniest hat; and there aint a man in that town thats got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane- the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the state. and what do you think? they said hes a p'fesser in a college. and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. and that aint the wust of it, they said he could vote, when he was at home. well, that let me out, thinks i. what is this country a- commin to? it was 'lection day, and i was just about to go and vote myself, if i warn' to drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a state in this country where they'd let that ______ vote, i drawed out. i says ill never vote again. thems the very words i said; they all heard me ; and the country may rot for all of me- ill never vote again as long as i live. and to see the cool way of that ______- why, he wouldnt five me the road if i hadn't shoved him out o' the way. says i to the people, why aint this ______ put up at auction and sold?" (pg. 20 chapter 6 2nd full paragraph).

I belive you should treat everybody with respect and be kind to them no no matter what race they are. because we may be a different color but that doesn't mean anything becasue we come into this the same way and we all bleed the same color. what I think pap thinks is wrong because he uses the "n" word alot in this paragraph and I belive he would probalby get mad or upset if someone was saying like that about him.

This relates to Mark Twain and his life because he was a live during the rascist time and he may of heard alot of people talking about rascism. He probably thought that time was very sad because he was always hearing stuff like that.