Slavery :: Slavery Essays

Escaping from thralldom in 1838 had to be a perfidious experience escaping slavery at any time would be roughly slaves couldnt read or write, but one slave, Fredrick Douglass, broke that roadblock and many more. In this particular piece he uses a anarchic state of mind to clearly get his thoughts across. He does this by apply a wide variety of diction along with meter fluency. An sample corporation be seen in every sentence of every paragraph. I saw in every white man an enemy, and in around every colored man cause for distrust. It was a most frightful situation and, to understand it, one must needs experience it, or imagine himself in similar circumstances. His narrative point of view around slavery, or rather first person experience on slavery, is uttered throughout as he explains slavery as being both(prenominal) life and death. How someone can write with such strong emotion, is beyond me, but Douglass does more than that. He captures and captivates the reader into th inking about and imagining his experiences. by means of the use of concrete language, Fredrick Douglass, relates his readers to the life of a slave while at the same time explaining how one could never understand unless he experiences the hardships of slavery on his own. Fredrick Douglass has such a talent at pulling his readers into the writing and making them envision what is happening, that anyone could fall in love with his writing. An example can be found in, There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger Another common figure of deliverance found many times within the passage is the use of metaphors. approximately are seen in,I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions, being seized upon by his fellow-man, as the hideous crocodile seizes upon his run, and among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts. By using such metaphors, Douglass is helping his readers better imagine his emotions. Each sentence flows fluidly and without imperfection. There are no apostrophes or harsh-sounding words that do not belong or fit among the others. The words fit together perfectly, as do the ideas in order to make a remarkable move filled with emotion.