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| 13 Dec 2015 05:54 PM |
I didnt read the book and we have an anti-sparknotes test tomorrow where everything BUT what is on the sparknotes page will be tested on
I need a summary of the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
with all 10 chapters and locations of the segments and information in their respective chapters
If it's listed on SparkNotes it won't help
help please??? |
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| 13 Dec 2015 05:55 PM |
read the book? it can be read in <4 hours |
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hubert637
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| 13 Dec 2015 05:56 PM |
ITS SO BORING GOD NO
Something about a slave and his aunt and she got whipped and like he had daddy issues and left to the north and got married
something like that
I can't stand reading something that long in that short of time in that form like that |
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Nectrum
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| 13 Dec 2015 05:58 PM |
Douglass's Narrative is like a highway map, showing us the road from slavery to freedom. At the beginning of the book, Douglass is a slave in both body and mind. When the book ends, he gets both his legal freedom and frees his mind. And if the book is like a highway map, then the mile markers are a series of "epiphanies," or moments of realization, that he has along the way. These events are turning points in Douglass's life, but they also help show how he got there, and what he had to learn along the way.
The first epiphany is Douglass's realization about what slavery is. He's born a slave on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, but as a child he's mostly spared the worst kinds of suffering. He sees his Aunt Hester get beaten, for example, but he's too young to be whipped himself. Instead, he suffers without really knowing it. He never knows his father and only meets his mother a handful of times before she dies – and then, he isn't allowed to go to her funeral. But he doesn't really know for a long time that this isn't normal. So his first turning point is sort of simplistic, but also important: realizing that he is a slave and all that that entails.
The second stage of his life begins when the seven-year-old Douglass is sent to work for a new set of masters in Baltimore. Baltimore is a whole new world for him, with a lot of new experiences, but the most important thing he learns there is the power of education. He has this second epiphany when his master's wife starts teaching him to read, which gets her in big trouble with her husband. Douglass finds ways of educating himself, but the real lesson is that slavery exists not because the masters are better than their slaves, but because they keep their slaves ignorant. Douglass starts to suspect that if slaves managed to educate themselves, it would be impossible to stop them from becoming free.
As Douglass becomes a young man, he starts fighting to actually be free. When he talks back to his master, his master sends him to work for a notorious "slave breaker," Covey, who tries to destroy Douglass's spirit. For a while it works, and Douglass is reduced to the state of mind of an animal. This is the lowest point in his life. His third epiphany happens, however, when he decides that he'd rather die than be treated like a slave anymore. So the next time Covey tries to whip him, he stands up to him, and after a two-hour fight, Covey leaves him alone. Douglass vows never to be whipped again. And he never is.
After this, Douglass bounces from master to master, but he's always on the lookout for a way to escape to freedom. And after one failed attempt, he finally succeeds and makes his way first to New York, then to Massachusetts. But even after he's free, he discovers that his journey isn't over. This is his final epiphany: even after he acquires his own freedom, he realizes he can't rest until all slavery is abolished. He not only becomes an abolitionist activist himself; he writes the narrative of his life to teach others, white and black, how to follow in his footsteps.
From shmoop |
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hubert637
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| 13 Dec 2015 05:59 PM |
| This can't be very urgent if you can't even be bothered to actually read the book |
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| 13 Dec 2015 05:59 PM |
| its like 120 pages and its actually really interesting................. |
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| 13 Dec 2015 06:05 PM |
i found it really boring
too much like
i dont know
it's... weird |
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hubert637
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| 13 Dec 2015 06:06 PM |
^ I think you're just lazy. /: |
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| 13 Dec 2015 06:07 PM |
no it's just lacking something relatable
i think that's it
i think
i dont know it just it doesn't feel good to read to me |
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Nectrum
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| 13 Dec 2015 06:10 PM |
| I gave you a summary, just put information of the chapters in thee sumwhere |
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