From the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
In this passage written by Frederick Douglass presents his story of how literacy allowed him to overcome slavery. Douglass had been taught by a “Mrs. Auld” the alphabet. The Auld family owned Douglass as a slave. A “Mr. Auld” found out about such a heinous act and explained to his wife why it was socially unacceptable for Douglass to be literate. Auld used such excuses as; “Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world”, “it was unlawful”, and “unsafe”. In Auld explanation to his wife Fredrick was present. It was where Douglass learned of what it would take to escape slavery. In the end it was not Mrs. Auld, it was Mr. Auld that freed Fredrick Douglass from slavery.
Eudora is trying to prove to us that she is an avid reader; she is most likely selling herself to enthusiastic readers alike. While again we see an active voice, Eudora is present the entire time and is speaking presently.
This section completes the homework with a short novel on the relevance of yearbook articles, while the passage’s claim to fame is the yearbook what turns out to be most true is this author’s addiction to social status. A Margaret Finders seemingly uses the yearbook as a mask with what may be personal frustration about social status amongst students. Finder’s most apparent argument was “Students with the greatest status were freed from judgment” (Call to Write: pg 27 p 9). The relationship to the reader is unsure, I would first