Monday, March 25, 2019

In Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Es

In Frederick Douglasss floor of the Life of Frederick Douglass,he appeals to the interest of the reader through his first playscriptaccounts of hard workerry, his use of irony in these descriptions, and hisbalance between indirectness and honesty.Douglasss descriptions of the harshness of slave smell are filled withhorrific details able to induce even the coldest hearts. The beginningof the book describes how Douglass lacks even the simplest receiptledgeof his own age. He goes on in the book to describe how he has no veracious knowledge of his age, because he has never seen any of theauthentic records containing it. By uttermost the larger part of the slaves,know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it isprobably the wish of most masters to keep their slaves with only alimited amount of knowledge.In saying this Douglass is showing how low the life of a slave iscompared to other humans. The idea of slaves being seen as hardly workanimals is placed into our min ds and is set for an idea to shape thelife of Frederick Douglass.Douglass withal gives acco...

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