5/25/2023 0 Comments The underground railroad book![]() ![]() Major Symbols: Cora’s plot of land the underground railroads the Declaration of Independence sterilization dead bodies the Bible Gulliver’s Travels Major Thematic Topics: Freedom the roots of violence the difficulty of labeling people “good” and “evil” how the past influences the present subtle forms of racial oppression ![]() ![]() Main Characters: Cora Caesar Arnold Ridgeway Settings (secondary): Ouidah, Benin South Carolina North Carolina Tennessee Indiana Virginia “the North” Her subsequent journey of escape and capture and escape takes her through Tennessee and Indiana and finally out West, each time riding along the mysterious underground train tracks called “the underground railroad.” Cora continues alone to North Carolina, where she spends months hiding in an attic before being discovered and captured. Ridgeway follows Cora and Caesar to South Carolina, where he captures Caesar. However, the slave catcher Ridgeway is in pursuit, all the more determined to catch her because of his failure to catch her mother when she ran away years before. Persuaded by a fellow slave named Caesar, Cora escapes from the Georgia plantation where she was born and travels north, riding in the boxcar of a secret underground train. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave who travels from state to state on railroad cars physically under the ground of the American South. ![]()
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