Fredrick Douglass
This is very interesting to read slave narratives because can get some kind of an insight on the life of a slave. These narratives are very interesting to read. So far in Fredrick Douglass, I have been very interested in getting to the next page when I read it.
He seems to be able to fit so much information into these first nine chapters that make it alittle bit confusing, but I was able to figure it out. I didn't understand the preface as much as I understood the actually narrative from Fredrick Douglass. Something that I liked about this narrative was the in-depth detail of every person he mentioned. It was easy to in version in my head the storyline because he explained every person and every thing that was occuring.
So far this narrative has really opened the eyes of the reader (well it has had that effect on me anyways) that slaveholder really didn't care about slaves. Even when slaves were obeying they would get punished as well as when doing wrong. People had no care in the world, and were able to just sell other human being to people because they didn't have use for them anymore or they did something wrong. How can someone treat another human being that way? Slavery is such a harsh act.
Something in this narrative that was very postive and made me happy was when he was starting to learn to read and write. Even though his master did not want this to happen, he was able to find a way to do it. It is sad though that he regreted learning it at one point in the narrative because it was getting him into trouble.
I am enjoying this narrative so far and I'm interested to see what happens in farther in to it!
He seems to be able to fit so much information into these first nine chapters that make it alittle bit confusing, but I was able to figure it out. I didn't understand the preface as much as I understood the actually narrative from Fredrick Douglass. Something that I liked about this narrative was the in-depth detail of every person he mentioned. It was easy to in version in my head the storyline because he explained every person and every thing that was occuring.
So far this narrative has really opened the eyes of the reader (well it has had that effect on me anyways) that slaveholder really didn't care about slaves. Even when slaves were obeying they would get punished as well as when doing wrong. People had no care in the world, and were able to just sell other human being to people because they didn't have use for them anymore or they did something wrong. How can someone treat another human being that way? Slavery is such a harsh act.
Something in this narrative that was very postive and made me happy was when he was starting to learn to read and write. Even though his master did not want this to happen, he was able to find a way to do it. It is sad though that he regreted learning it at one point in the narrative because it was getting him into trouble.
I am enjoying this narrative so far and I'm interested to see what happens in farther in to it!
posted by Lacy at 12:36 PM
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Lacy, I also found this narrative to be a bit hard to understand at times. I'm not sure if it is the time frame in which it was wrote or the immense amount of information squeezed into each of the chapters that is more confusing for me.
The fact that he was still able to succeed in learning to read and write also triggered a sense of compasion and even a little excitment for douglass. It was as though you could feel his excitment adn pride through the words in the text.
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