anchor: The two stories further illustrate the unease, even hostility, that blacks have tended to feel about their folklore, and about black history  In That I Had the Wings, Riley, a young black boy Ellison uses in several stories, hates his Aunt Kate and wishes she had died back in slavery times; in Flying Home, the black pilot who seeks escape hates the black farmer who rescued him after his crash.
positive: In the two stories, two black men, Riley and Ellison, experience tragedies that take place in black History
negative: The two stories tell nothing about the unease and discomfort blacks tended to feel about their history.