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With Slavery being abolished in 1865, the thoughts and ideas still run rampant through the minds of those who suffered. Katherine Porter explains the life after slavery, the harsh truth that the former slaves went through. The story tells of a man, Uncle Jimbilly a former slave who was cruelly beaten and harshly abused from the former slave master. The horrid things that happen to slaves will always haunt the former slaves it will always be embedded into their minds. Porter illustrates what and how the slaves were beaten. She teaches how the cruel treatment harmed how they lived their lives. Porter teaches us a lesson of our past and how it never leaves the individuals or their families minds. It’s important we know our past or we may make the mistake of doing what our past did.

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Have you ever tried to see yourself in someone’s shoes and see life from their perspective? What about from a slave’s perspective?  The Witness, a Katherine Anne Porter’s novel, is about seeing life differently through the eyes of a freed slave. This man, Uncle Jimbilly, tells children stories about his past and the horrors behind it; by doing this, the children see slavery from a whole new perspective. To help put this story to life, Porter uses diction and imagery to create the theme of deeper evils and the racism of the time period. These literary devices help readers create a picture in their head as they read of what it feels like to be right there in front of Jimbilly as he describes his life.

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Devin Daniel
The Bad Part of History

Slavery has ended 135 years ago, but many still feel the pain of what their ancestors were put through. Katherine Anne Porter posses this (what?) in her realistic novel The Witness. Taking place on an old farm in the South , the novel begins when Uncle Jimbilly is experiencing pain in his hands. (Sentence that overviews novel-general summary) "His hands were closed and stiff from gripping objects tightly, while he worked at them, and they could not open altogether even if a child took took the thick black fingers and tried to pull them back"(Porter 3-6), and unable to take a firm grip on anything. This physical let down is showed through imagery. Porter uses (which tools, stategies to emphasize the theme, and what is your overall opinion?) (Answer the the "SO WHAT?") this as a symbol of how hard Uncle Jimbilly was worked when he was a slave. Uncle Jimbilly's health represents how Negroes of the time were treated in the slave camps, and how they were not treated well in our nation's past. The children Uncle Jimbilly is talking to are realizing history had rough parts, us modern day americans would prefer to forget.

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Can you imagine being a slave? The daily routine of exhausting work and never being able to leave. The freedoms of many slaves are ignored, and they are viewed as objects that the farmers own. In Katherine Anne Porter’s The Witness, Uncle Jimbilly is a freed slave who is living with a family who has never went through slavery. As a previous slave, he is a very broken man. As we continue to read about him, we learn that he is a very soft spoken man, and  he enjoys to take care of dead animals to lay them to peace. He is the way because of his experiences and what he went through.

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Slaves with marketable skills like carpentry, construction, and others worked in those trades and some started successful small businesses. After slavery Uncle Jimbilly was carving miniature tombstones out of blocks of wood. This was shown in "The Witness" by Katherine Anne Porter. She used details, diction, imagery, and tone to help support the theme of an individual versus society. I believe even after all the pain and hardships that Uncle Jimbilly has been through he still makes ways to move on with his life and tries not to wallow in the past, by making these tombstones and telling stories to the children.

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Slavery has been gone for many years but that does not get it out of people’s heads and their family members emotions and feelings towards it. Uncle Jimbilly use to be a slave and it is different for him in present day than it was in past days. Katherine Porter shows us this in the story “The Witness”. Uncle Jimbilly works on a farm helping out with things that need to be fixed. He also would say things about what he would do and his experiences. Katherine Porter shows us this through imagery, diction and tone. When he tells the story and his experiences to the children it shows the evil and pain he went through of what his life use to be like with the children's emotions and reactions. This shows how bad slavery history is.

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Facing the darkness and reality of your past can be hard, it can even make you angry. Uncle Jimbilly, found it hard to adapt to his present day life because of how rough his past in slavery was. Katherine Anne Porter in “The Witness”, uses diction by showing how hard it was for Uncle Jimbilly to tell his stories. Emotionally charged Diction was also used to show emphasize a moody tone. Uncle Jimbilly's colloquial speech and and perspective comes off as illiterate, yet, the audience is able to perceive through his conversations with the children that he is more enlightened than they think. The irony of It also shows how he continues to act like a slave in ways. Uncle Jimbilly acting this way shows the theme of facing reality and how it can be difficult.

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Slavery has been outlawed for many years, however Uncle Jimbilly has been affected by his experiences in the past. Katherine Porter shows this in the story the Witness. Thought to be on a farm in the south, the story begins with the experiences of Uncle Jimbilly through the diction the author uses. The diction helps to show how the experiences Uncle Jimbilly went through have affected him as a person and makes him the person he is. The literary tools used throughout the story help to support the theme of wisdom comes from experience, when Uncle Jimbilly tells about the life he has had.

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Even though slavery has been outlawed for years, Uncle Jimbilly still goes through life living similarly to slaves. Katherine Anne Porter tells us this within her story called The Witness. Presumed to be on an old farm in the South, the setting helps us understand the diction used by Jimbilly, within the story. The young children do not seem to understand the way Jimbilly talks and acts, because of them being white and not having the same upbringing. This all ties into the kids learning about slavery through the way Jimbilly acts, hoping to help them make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.

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The Witness

There are many stories about slavery, and what harm it did to African Americans. Some people believe slavery wasn’t as bad as the history books say it was. When you get to talk to a former/freed slave, the will tell you just how bad it actually was. Katherine Anne Porter shows us a depiction of slavery from her novel, The Witness. This story is set on an old farm in the deep south of America. The story begins when a former slave, Uncle Jimbilly loses feeling in his hands. He isn’t able to lift anything. There is symbolism here, because it shows how slaves were treated.

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Awful things that happen in a person's life such as slavery can affect how someone acts and thinks forever. In The Witness, Katherine Porter explains how Jimbilly, was a former slave and now works on a farm, fixing things, plowing, and working hard everyday. He dwelt so much on the horrors of his slave time. He would often tell stories of his experiences. Through diction, tone, and imagery Katherine Porter shows us a good picture of how the three children react to Jimbilly’s story. We can clearly see how horrible it was for him. Through diction we can get the sense that these tragic events will be forever remembered.

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The Bad Part of History

Slavery has ended 135 years ago, but many still feel the pain of what their ancestors were put through. Katherine Anne Porter posses this in her realistic novel The Witness. Taking place on an old farm in the south , the novel begins when Uncle Jimbilly is experiencing pain in his hands. "His hands were closed and stiff from gripping objects tightly, while he worked at them, and they could not open altogether even if a child took took the thick black fingers and tried to pull them back"(Porter 3-6), and unable to take a firm grip on anything. This physical let down is showed through imagery. Katherine Anne Porter uses this as a symbol of how hard Uncle Jimbilly was worked when he was a slave. Uncle Jimbilly's health represents how Negroes of the time were treated in the slave camps, and how they were not treated well in our nation's past. The children Uncle Jimbilly is talking to are realizing history had rough parts, us modern day americans would prefer to forget.

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Everyone’s life comes with a story that is meaningful to other people around them like their family or friends. In “The Witness” written by Katherine Anne Porter, Uncle Jimbilly tells Paul, Maria, and Miranda his hardships of being a slave. He tells them about his experience being a slave during the hardest time of his life. Porter uses the literary tools syntax, diction, and imagery to help develop the theme of the story which is coming to terms with reality. This would be the theme because, before Uncle Jimbilly told them his life story they didn’t know what slaves actually had to go through. By hearing his story this made the kids feel guilty and embarrassed because they felt terrible that someone had to go through something that tragic.

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Have you ever been through something that is downright unfair, but there is nothing you can do to stop it? This may have the same effect on use-to-be slaves. Slavery in the United States of America has been abolished since the year 1865, but people that have experienced slavery may still carry it with them throughout their lives. Katherine Anne Porter, a writer during the 1930’s and 40’s writes about a character named, Uncle Jimbilly and his hard times going through slavery. Through diction and syntax, Katherine portrays how children reflect on Uncle Jimbilly’s stories. These stories make the children realize how awful days of slavery in the past make them feel a sense of “embarrassment” and hope things don't get as bad as they used to be.

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The Witness is an intriguing story of an ex-slave that has lost himself in the new society. This tale was written by Katherine Anne Porter to display the theme of racism. After the Civil war, Jimbilly tells different stories to the children he serves of his past and about his experiences on the era of slavery. The author uses plenty of tools like imagery, syntax and diction to display the character’s misfortunes in the dark era. In continuation,  Jimbilly’s explicit stories and details show how slaves and former slaves had very difficult lives and didn’t deserve their experiences.

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The Witness Introduction

“Lightning makes no sound till it strikes.” This quote from Martin Luther King Jr. expresses the power of people's actions and stories which is portrayed through Uncle Jimbilly. Katherine Anne Porter who wrote The Witness, is a writer through the 1930s and 40s writing about tragedies of the time period. Through syntax, diction, detail, and tone, Porter shows how the white children react to Uncle Jimbilly’s stories about the “horrors of slave times.” These stories force the children to face the reality of their ancestors actions, as written the children feel “embarrassment” for the past hoping to never have history repeat itself again.

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Have you ever felt like no one around you was able to understand the things that you’ve been through throughout your life? In the passage of The Witness, by Katherine Anne Porter, there is a very obvious common theme, which is the evils of racism. I think that the author uses multiple different elements to help set the tone and also help us figure out the theme. Some of the elements used include: diction, tone, imagery, and detail. All of these elements make it easier for the reader to decide what the theme and setting are. The purpose of this passage is to inform the readers of the terrible reality that is slavery, and to describe the experiences that African Americans had during the era of slavery. And also to display how little some people know about slavery.

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How would slavery change your perspective of life if you had to go through it? In “The Witness,” written by Katherine Anne Porter, Uncle Jimbilly discusses of some of the beatings he had witnessed during that time period. They go into detail of how this changed him as a person and why doesn't take orders from other people and works at his own pace. Porter uses the literary tools such as imagery, syntax, tone and others to help develop the theme of the story which could be the evils of racism. This changes the children perspective about slavery and how it could change such a person.

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Cassie Hartzell
Cassie Hartzell
Can you imagine being a slave? The daily routine of exhausting work and never being able to leave. The freedoms of many slaves are ignored, and they are viewed as objects that the farmers own. In Katherine Anne Porter’s The Witness, Uncle Jimbilly is a freed slave who is living with a family who has never went through slavery. As a previous slave, he is a very broken man. As we continue to read about him, we learn that he is a very soft spoken man, and  he enjoys to take care of dead animals to lay them to peace. He is the way because of his experiences and what he went through.

Hillary Schoenfeld
Hillary Schoenfeld
Slaves with marketable skills like carpentry, construction, and others worked in those trades and some started successful small businesses. After slavery Uncle Jimbilly was carving miniature tombstones out of blocks of wood. This was shown in "The Witness" by Katherine Anne Porter. She used details, diction, imagery, and tone to help support the theme of an individual versus society. I believe even after all the pain and hardships that Uncle Jimbilly has been through he still makes ways to move on with his life and tries not to wallow in the past, by making these tombstones and telling stories to the children.
Summer Morency
Summer Morency
Slavery has been gone for many years but that does not get it out of people’s heads and their family members emotions and feelings towards it. Uncle Jimbilly use to be a slave and it is different for him in present day than it was in past days. Katherine Porter shows us this in the story “The Witness”. Uncle Jimbilly works on a farm helping out with things that need to be fixed. He also would say things about what he would do and his experiences. Katherine Porter shows us this through imagery, diction and tone. When he tells the story and his experiences to the children it shows the evil and pain he went through of what his life use to be like with the children's emotions and reactions. This shows how bad slavery history is. 
Kaitlyn Cook
Kaitlyn Cook
Facing the darkness and reality of your past can be hard, it can even make you angry. Uncle Jimbilly was finding it hard to adapt to his present day life because of how rough his past in slavery was. Katherine Anne Porter in “The Witness”, uses diction by showing how hard it was for Uncle Jimbilly to tell his stories. Diction was also used to show how he had a moody tone and talked very illiterately. It also shows how he continues to act like a slave in ways. Uncle Jimbilly acting this way shows the theme of facing reality and how it can be difficult. 

Maria Phillips
Maria Phillips
Slavery has been outlawed for many years, however Uncle Jimbilly has been affected by his experiences in the past. Katherine Porter shows this in the story the Witness. Thought to be on a farm in the south, the story begins with the experiences of Uncle Jimbilly through the diction the author uses. The diction helps to show how the experiences Uncle Jimbilly went through have affected him as a person and makes him the person he is. The literary tools used throughout the story help to support the theme of wisdom comes from experience, when Uncle Jimbilly tells about the life he has had. 
Emma Gurney
Emma Gurney
Even though slavery has been outlawed for years, Uncle Jimbilly still goes through life living similarly to slaves. Katherine Anne Porter tells us this within her story called The Witness. Presumed to be on an old farm in the South, the setting helps us understand the diction used by Jimbilly, within the story. The young children do not seem to understand the way Jimbilly talks and acts, because of them being white and not having the same upbringing. This all ties into the kids learning about slavery through the way Jimbilly acts, hoping to help them make sure history doesn’t repeat itself. 


Matt Ellis
Matt Ellis

The Witness
	There are many stories about slavery, and what harm it did to African Americans. Some people believe slavery wasn’t as bad as the history books say it was. When you get to talk to a former/freed slave, the will tell you just how bad it actually was. Katherine Anne Porter shows us a depiction of slavery from her novel, The Witness. This story is set on an old farm in the deep south of America. The story begins when a former slave, Uncle Jimbilly loses feeling in his hands. He isn’t able to lift anything. There is symbolism here, because it shows how slaves were treated.
Caylin Quiggle
Caylin Quiggle

Awful things that happen in a person's life such as slavery can affect how someone acts and thinks forever. In The Witness, Katherine Porter explains how Jimbilly, was a former slave and now works on a farm, fixing things, plowing, and working hard everyday. He dwelt so much on the horrors of his slave time. He would often tell stories of his experiences. Through diction, tone, and imagery Katherine Porter shows us a good picture of how the three children react to Jimbilly’s story. We can clearly see how horrible it was for him. Through diction we can get the sense that these tragic events will be forever remembered. 

Devin Daniel
Devin Daniel
       The Bad Part of History 

        Slavery has ended 135 years ago, but many still feel the pain of what their ancestors were put through. Katherine Anne Porter posses this in her realistic novel The Witness. Taking place on an old farm in the south , the novel begins when Uncle Jimbilly is experiencing pain in his hands. "His hands were closed and stiff from gripping objects tightly, while he worked at them, and they could not open altogether even if a child took took the thick black fingers and tried to pull them back"(Porter 3-6), and unable to take a firm grip on anything. This physical let down is showed through imagery. Katherine Anne Porter uses this as a symbol of how hard Uncle Jimbilly was worked when he was a slave. Uncle Jimbilly's health represents how Negroes of the time were treated in the slave camps, and how they were not treated well in our nation's past. The children Uncle Jimbilly is talking to are realizing history had rough parts, us modern day americans would prefer to forget.



Kristina Skidmore
Kristina Skidmore
Everyone’s life comes with a story that is meaningful to other people around them like their family or friends. In “The Witness” written by Katherine Anne Porter, Uncle Jimbilly tells Paul, Maria, and Miranda his hardships of being a slave. He tells them about his experience being a slave during the hardest time of his life. Porter uses the literary tools syntax, diction, and imagery to help develop the theme of the story which is coming to terms with reality. This would be the theme because, before Uncle Jimbilly told them his life story they didn’t know what slaves actually had to go through. By hearing his story this made the kids feel guilty and embarrassed because they felt terrible that someone had to go through something that tragic. 

Blaine Swartzmiller
Blaine Swartzmiller
Have you ever been through something that is downright unfair, but there is nothing you can do to stop it? This may  have the same effect on use-to-be slaves. Slavery in the United States of America has been abolished since the year 1865, but people that have experienced slavery may still carry it with them throughout their lives. Katherine Anne Porter, a writer during the 1930’s and 40’s writes about a character named, Uncle Jimbilly and his hard times going through slavery. Through diction and syntax, Katherine portrays how children reflect on Uncle Jimbilly’s stories. These stories make the children realize how awful days of slavery in the past make them feel a sense of “embarrassment” and hope things don't get as bad as they used to be. 
Logan Hemmer
Logan Hemmer
The Witness is an intriguing story of an ex-slave that has lost himself in the new society. This tale was written by Katherine Anne Porter to display the theme of racism. After the Civil war, Jimbilly tells different stories to the children he serves of his past and about his experiences on the era of slavery. The author uses plenty of tools like imagery, syntax and diction to display the character’s misfortunes in the dark era. In continuation,  Jimbilly’s explicit stories and details show how slaves and former slaves had very difficult lives and didn’t deserve their experiences.
Madelyn Beckman
Madelyn Beckman
The Witness Introduction
 “Lightning makes no sound till it strikes.” This quote from Martin Luther King Jr. expresses the power of people's actions and stories which is portrayed through Uncle Jimbilly. Katherine Anne Porter who wrote The Witness, is a writer through the 1930s and 40s writing about tragedies of the time period. Through syntax, diction, and tone, Porter shows how the white children react to Uncle Jimbilly’s stories about the “horrors of slave times.” These stories force the children to face the reality of their ancestors actions, as written the children feel “embarrassment” for the past hoping to never have history repeat itself again. 

Winnie Snook
Winnie Snook
Have you ever felt like no one around you was able to understand the things that you’ve been through throughout your life? In the passage of The Witness, by Katherine Anne Porter, there is a very obvious common theme, which is the evils of racism. I think that the author uses multiple different elements to help set the tone and also help us figure out the theme. Some of the elements used include: diction, tone, imagery, and detail. All of these elements make it easier for the reader to decide what the theme and setting are. The purpose of this passage is to inform the readers of the terrible reality that is slavery, and to describe the experiences that African Americans had during the era of slavery. And also to display how little some people know about slavery. 
Moriah Love
Moriah Love
How would slavery change your perspective of life if you had to go through it? In “The Witness,” written by Katherine Anne Porter, Uncle Jimbilly discusses of some of the beatings he had witnessed during that time period. They go into detail of how this changed him as a person and why doesn't take orders from other people and works at his own pace. Porter uses the literary tools such as imagery, syntax, tone and others to help develop the theme of the story which could be the evils of racism. This changes the children perspective about slavery and how it could change such a person. 
Megan Wise
Megan Wise
The Witness Introduction
Does learning about slavery give you a new perspective on life? In Katherine Anne Porter's novel, The Witness, the story is told through the eyes of Uncle Jimbilly, a freed slave, telling a few children about the horrors of what it was like to be a slave. Katherine Anne Porter uses the literary tools of syntax, diction, and imagery to help develop the theme of the evils of racism. Through these tools the readers are able to get a more in depth knowledge of how Uncle Jimbilly thinks and feels when telling his time of being a slave. Also, the readers get to see how the children react to hearing the stories of Uncle Jimbilly. 

Cullen
Cullen
Cullen White
Mrs. Warner
English 12 CP
12 December 2018
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	There have been many atrocious acts committed throughout human history, and slavery is a major one. The Witness by Katherine Anne Porter shows the horrors and grief caused by slavery. The story is set after the American Civil War, with a narrator retelling the stories of Uncle Jimbilly. Uncle Jimbilly was a former slave and has first hand accounts of the horrors of slavery. The tales he shares cast light on what happened during this dark period of history and conveys the theme of racism and the horrors of slavery.

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The Witness Introduction
Does learning about slavery give you a new perspective on life? In Katherine Anne Porter's novel, The Witness, the story is told through the eyes of Uncle Jimbilly, a freed slave, telling a few children about the horrors of what it was like to be a slave. Katherine Anne Porter uses the literary tools of syntax, diction, and imagery to help develop the theme of the evils of racism. Through these tools the readers are able to get a more in depth knowledge of how Uncle Jimbilly thinks and feels when telling his time of being a slave. Also, the readers get to see how the children react to hearing the stories of Uncle Jimbilly.

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Cullen White

Mrs. Warner

English 12 CP

12 December 2018

Title

There have been many atrocious acts committed throughout human history, and slavery is a major one. The Witness by Katherine Anne Porter shows the horrors and grief caused by slavery. The story is set after the American Civil War, with a narrator retelling the stories of Uncle Jimbilly. Uncle Jimbilly was a former slave and has first hand accounts of the horrors of slavery. The tales he shares cast light on what happened during this dark period of history and conveys the theme of racism and the horrors of slavery.