ana to come from a world where the possibilities of African American’s futures were so broad to suddenly lose all of her rights and be viewed as property was almost enough to cause Dana a mental breakdown. Although the slaves did not want theirs lives the way they were, they had somewhat grown accustomed to the idea of slavery and accepted it as their future. It is much easier not to teach a bird to fly than it is to teach one once and tell it can never fly again.In the novel the African Americans of modern day were compared to the slaves of the time in education, work ethic, and their own views on slavery. Both groups had strengths in those fields and some found weaknesses. Both generations had two very important things in common; the unbreakable human spirit, and the unexplainable drive that pushed them to survive and get up just one more time than they had fallen down....
