Realism- The Battle of Mr. Covey

The battle of Mr. Covey is a short realism story about a slave that fought back. He was beaten by his master for no reason and for this the slave ran away. He was forced to go back by his seller(?) Then another slave gave him a magical root that made it impossible for Mr. Covey to beat him. When Mr. Covey tried to hurt the slave, he resisted and overpowered him. And this made Mr. Covey almost respect the slave, he never laid a hand on him again.

The realism shows with the great descriptions of the harsh woods that the poor slave had to trek, it also shows with the gruesome descriptions of the injures that the slave had received from the first beating.
The realism does not match up with the magical root. Maybe this was symbolizing how the slaves were uneducated(?)
Yet, the realism is the strongest with the social issue of slavery. Of course slavery is wrong, and the passage tries to let the reader fully understand how terrible it is. People of my generation are very uneducated of the atrocities in which their ancestors lived through. The only learning of slavery that we receive is in school, and the facts that are taught to us are sometimes biased and incorrect. We were never told that Africans sold each other out until ninth grade. This was a huge shock to me. Sadly, slavery exists today, I feel that it will never be fully eradicated.