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Characters:
Bruh Rabbit: Wily outwits larger and stronger animals in the first part of the book.
Toby: Hero he did not have the time to teach all the slaves to fly in the second part of the book.
Theme:
One last comment about the characters; I have about a story is about Carrying the Run-Aways from Slave Tales of Freedom section. A part that struck me as powerful is Mr. Rankins had a big light about thirty feet high up and it burned all night. It meant fredom for slaves if they could get to that bright flame (144). The image of that light seems to be literally burned in my brain. What that light represented for all of the slaves is exactly why so many of these stories were passed through generations. This passage also lends itself to a further discussion of what light has symbolized in literature, for example, education and goodness. It all seems to fit in this story as themes.
Motif:
I noticed in the Tales of the Real, Extravagant, and Fanciful section is a situation where a daughter lives only with her father. Then I thought! a lot of Disney movies share the same situation: Jasmine and her sultan father in Aladdin, Ariel and her father in The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas and her father in Pocahontas, etc. The fathers are also always in a position of societal power.
Link: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11397814&referer=brief_results