Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Answer the questions below. When you are finished, submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date for full credit.
1. Why is the climax of Douglass’s story the incident with Covey and not the actual escape from slavery?
2. How does the genre of the Narrative—a main character who tells his own true story—affect the reader?
3. Which of the main ideas does Douglass use most effectively? Use textual evidence to support your answer
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The narrative is about Douglass, who is struggling to free himself from mental shackles and slavery. We see that at the age of ten or eleven years, he is sent to live in Baltimore with Sophia Auld and Hugh. He happens to overhear a conversation between Sophia and Hugh and starts to understand that white people maintain……………..
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