The Reasons I Like this Book

This autobiography of Frederick Douglas, while showing the challenges along the way to seeking truth and freedom, also demonstrates the rewards. It shows you that if you set a certain goal and try to achieve it, it will be very rewarding once you get the feeling of accomplishment and all of the things that come with it.

The author employs such a wide variety of literary devices. From very effective uses of metaphor, ex: “nor because he possessed the slightest shadow of a right to it; but solely because he had the power to compel me to give it up. The right of the grim visaged pirate on the high seas is exactly the same” to subtle sarcasm, to irony, to gripping drama, to understatement. Frederick Douglas’s literary elements are not complicated and are easy to understand; it is like he was using the language of the common people without too many BIG words. By doing so, more people can read his book clearly and truly understand the inhumanity of slavery

I also found this book could be used in both literature classes as well as history classes, because it gives you further or more inside knowledge about certain situations. This very short book is considered by some to be an American classic. Some asks the question "why?" In my opinion, the answer is all in the narrative which very effectively shows how reading and education can open one's eyes to a very valuable commodity...Opportunity.

This book gives you a full view of how slavery was inflicted on people just because they were black. It gives you details as to how slaves were treated, from his aunt being whipped to his mother’s death which to him was that of a stranger. By far those are the most memorable or rather moving pieces of his story. The grim detail he went into as these events were going on allowed me to get a visual that-- although I didn’t want to ever have to visualize it-- was necessary to get his point across. Those were some of the reason I liked the book. I have a million more.
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