Literary Criticism "Black Sam and Uncle Felix, characters in a text/real life"

During a Literature class, our professor assigned a novel to study involving a poor white farmer/gold-digger named Ty Ty Walden and his two African American sharecroppers that he owned, Black Sam and Uncle Felix. While Ty Ty and his family lived in the farmhouse, Black Sam and Uncle Felix lived in the barn. Ty Ty had gold fever and was always digging holes. He had promised a portion of land as a tithe to God but the problem was that he would dig there. He was always shifting the land around that was supposed to be his tithe to God. Ty Ty made other promises to, that he did not keep, one of them was to feed Black Sam and Uncle Felix, but the days grew longer and as it turns out, he had food to eat, they had none. They were hard workers and grew hungrier and hungrier everyday, so hungry that their ribs were showing. One day Black Sam could not take it any longer, he was determined to kill one of Ty Ty's two mules and eat it. Ty Ty got word of it and said he would "run their a...ragged." Ty Ty sat in his farmhouse eating to his heart's content and never once asked Black Sam and Uncle Felix to share food at his table in the farmhouse. They were starving and he never offered any food, not even a slice of bread. Ty Ty had two sons, Buck and Shaw, they were lazy but got to eat with their pa. Buck would feel bad for Black Sam and Uncle Felix and tell his pa how hungry they were but Ty Ty did not care. So, on occasion Buck would sneak food from the table and take it out to them. Ty Ty had food to offer to his sharecroppers, he knew they were starving, but withheld it from them. He stole what they could have had by keeping it for himself. Now, imagine this is real life as it exists in the 21st century, people are dying from lack of food. Who do you know that may be hungry, that you could help today? Will you search your heart and do what you can? When you offer bread to someone in need, you honor God.