As he says...
"A true story,
repeated word for word
as I heard it."
This story is about a sixty-years-old back servant Aunt Rachel who is very powerful. Her employer Misto-C has always seen her happy and cheerful and that's when the story began...
"Aunt Rachel,
how is it that you've lived sixty years and never had any trouble?"
This question encourages Aunt Rachel to tell her story. She describes her birth into slavery and her marriage to another slave who treats her well, just as well as Misto-C treats his Family. Unfortunately for Aunt Rachel, her mistress has run out of money and announces she will have to sell all her slaves at auction in Richmond.
The power of the story is contained in the question that Misto-C asks Aunt Rachel in the beginning and in the answers that she provides him. While throughout the story her response doesn't seem sarcastic, this reply appears to be so. She always seems happy, no matter what the situation it is.
When Aunt Rachel was purchased she was taken to Newbern. There she became the family cook . When the union army officers came into town, her owner, a confederate colonel, left his slaves behind.
Aunt Rachel end by answering with a double irony the question that prompted her tale....
"Oh! no, Misto-C---
I hain't had no trouble,
An' no joy!"
The next morning that same young man returned to the house. As soon as Rachel saw the man she knew that it was her son-Henry.
This story has strong mother's love for her children. This story helps us to understand how some people can be and what makes them have this wall over their emotions.
We can surely say that, through the character of Henry, Mark Twain proves that famous quote right that.....
"Grow as rose and fluttering on all over the heads.
grow with beauty and full off in forest."
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