Question

After reviewing the passage from “The People Could Fly,” write two to four sentences explaining which details are factual and which are fictional.

Answer 1

Answer:The folktale uses real historical details, such as the crowded ships enslaved people were forced to travel in. However, the folktale says that enslaved people lost their wings, when what they really lost was their freedom.

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Answer 2

Answer:

In this passage, it is stated that: "The ones that could fly shed their wings. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships". This is a fictional detail, because it is not possible for people to have wings and fly. This is only true in the story, a part of the author's imagination. Moreover, it is stated that:  "The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea." This is a factual detail, because the ships are often over-crowded and people do suffer from sea-sickness in real life.

Explanation:

This is an excerpt from a 1985 collection of twenty four folktales by Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly. The book genre is folklore, while the book includes animal tales, supernatural tales, fairy tales, and also tales of the enslaved African people. In the book, African people moved to the United States as slaves discover that they have a power to fly.