The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- First Published: 1880
- Type of Plot: Animal tale
- Time of Work: An age when animals talk
- Setting: The South
- Principal Characters: Uncle Remus, Miss Sally's son, Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Psychology or psychologists, Sociology, Animals
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
“The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” is only one of the many tales that Uncle Remus tells Miss Sally's son, but it is perhaps the most loved and most remembered. The story begins with the boy asking whether Brer Rabbit ever gets caught. Uncle Remus proceeds to recount one of the wiley rabbit's closest calls.
His nemesis, Brer Fox, still smarting over being fooled again by Brer Rabbit, mixes tar and turpentine to make a tar-baby. He sets his creation, which indeed looks like a little black figure wearing a hat, beside the road and hides himself in the bushes not...
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