Story - the people could fly 1. Reread the paragraph on the two paragraphs beginning on lines 33 and sum up the conflicts shown.

2. Find examples of dialect in lines 64-70 and tells how it affects readers.

3. Folktale often feature lessons that are important to a culture or group of people. What is the lesson of this folktale?

4. How would enslaved Africans have perceived the lesson as being important?

5. Early in the Folktale, the narrator says, "The folks were full of misery, then." Review the first half of the tale to find details about the conditions under which the slaves lived. Then in you own words, describe these conditions.