There are people whose abilities, determination and energy take them far past any limitations life tries to place on them. Booker T. Washington was one of those people. He overcame a childhood of slavery and illiteracy to become the most prominent educator and leader of black Americans during the late 19th and early 20th century. Booker T. Washington uses his own unique language and writing styles to illustrate these fine qualities in his influential and awe-inspiring autobiography, Up From Slavery.
As I began reading Washington’s autobiography I became rather intrigued with the language and tone he uses when portraying his life as a young boy during his hard times of slavery and thereafter. Washington’s use of language and tones expresses to me, the reader, his amount of intelligence, by using speech that is without slang and is in perfect English, which allows his story to be easily read and understandable. Washington lived in the most
Booker T. Washington’s, Up From Slavery, autobiography is one of the most awe-inspiring stories, of a life of dedication and commitment to achieve success, that I have ever been fortunate enough to read. Booker T. Washington wrote and spoke with such a modest, and yet, inspiring sense of congeniality and hope that has long been able to help not only bring about the largest advancement of education and socioeconomic progress of the black American race, but also educate all parts of society. And it’s Booker T. Washington’s writing and language styles that has influenced me to want become a better, more committed, person towards my education and the way I’m going to live my life. I feel that if Booker T. Washington; a man who grew up through the inhumane cruelties of slavery, and whom had to work for everything all of his life with nothing handed to him and is still able to become one of the most recognizable and heroic men of American history, then I believe that I can strive to achieve goals
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