Genre
Collection of short stories
Setting and Context
Set in Georgia and written in the context of slavery
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is curious, and the moon is fascinating.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Joe.
Major Conflict
The main conflict is when Frampton emancipates Joe because neither the whites nor the enslaved Black people accept him.
Climax
The climax is in the story 'Little Compton' when Jack Walthall meets with his long-term friend in the war field, and they reconcile.
Foreshadowing
In the story ‘Azalia,’ reconciliation is foreshadowed by the romance between the former Confederate General and the Boston woman.
Understatement
Joe understated the difficulties of being a formerly enslaved person.
Allusions
The stories allude to slavery and post-war reconciliation.
Imagery
The parlance imagery is depicted when the author writes, “But dat candy wuz candy, mon, w'en she did come, en den de ole 'oman she tuck 'n' pull it twel it git 'mos' right white; en my young master, he tuck 'n' writ back, he did, dat ef dey wuz anythin' in dat box w'at make 'im git puny wid de homesickness, hit uz dat ar 'lasses candy. Yassum, he certainly did, Kaze dey tuck 'n' read it right out'n de letter whar he writ it”
Paradox
The main paradox is in 'Free Joe and the rest of the World' when no one wants to accept Joe after his enslaver frees him.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the enslaved black people's hatred and the whites' notion towards formerly enslaved people.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
