Mark Twain has written a short story ‘A True
Story’ , it begins with two characters in which one is the Master- C and
another is Aunt Rachael. They are sitting in a farmhouse and it is the summer time. From the very beginning, the
readers get an idea of social status and
character’s level. Rachael is a servant of Master- C , a narrator as she is
black woman. After raising the point of troubles and happiness the narrator
asks Aunt Rachael about her happy life and to share her secret with him.
Aunt Rachael answers him that she
had lots of troubles in her life. Then she begins her story that she had loving
and faithful husband with seven children but unfortunately her husband and six
children were sold in an auction. When her seventh son Henry was about to be
sold, she tried to save him from being sold
but she was beaten by her previous master. Henry was sold but before
that he declared to his mother that he would buy freedom for her.
As time passed Rachael got aged, she
became the slave of a colonel and
appointed her as a cook. During the time that she spent in Colonel’s house she
met with her seventh son Henry who had became a Soldier. At last after a party,
in the morning at seven, she met Henry in front of her with the same remarks on
her wrist and forehead which he got during his childhood.
This story completes here with a
striking message that the Negro people
were oppressed by American people. Mark Twain draws a picture of slavery in
south America before it is abolished black people, it was believed that they
were born to be slave. We can give example that lines spoken by aunt Rachael’s
mother, “I want you to understand that I was not born in the mash to be fooled
by trash I was one of the old Blue hens and chickens , I is”. These lines
are proof of how black people feel when they became slave. So, this story tells
us about the problems, sufferings and pains of Negro people when they treat as
a slave b others.
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