Question

PLEASE HELP FAST I AM BEING TIMED

Which of the following excerpts from the passage best supports the author’s claim that his education led to his discontentment?

"My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else."
"I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart. Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled ‘The Columbian Orator.'"
"They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance."
"I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery."
"It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out."

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

"It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out."

This excerpt shows that because the narrator had some education, they were able to realize their conditions were not morally ethical or right. This caused them to realize what was happening had no way out of it.

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