Question

Solomon Northup’s character revisited

Read the excerpts below.
•Scene 1: After standing all day in the sun, hog tied by Tibeats, he says: “I endeavored to raise the hammer, thinking to show Ford how willing I was to work.”
•Scene 2: When he is saved from Tibeats, he says: “I was desolate, but thankful. Thankful that my life was spared,--desolate and discouraged with the prospect before me.”
•Scene 3: When he arrives at Ford’s plantation after surviving Tibeats and the swamp, he says: “I indulged in the most grateful feelings towards Master and Mistress Ford . . . for three days I was diligent in the garden.”

Analyze these scenes, both individually and collectively. What do these scenes reveal about Northup’s character and his view on gratitude? Construct a paragraph of at least one hundred words.

Answer 1

this questions answer is A

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Answer 2

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three, by
DERBY AND MILLER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New-York.ENTERED IN LONDON AT STATIONERS' HALL.TO
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE:
WHOSE NAME,
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE
GREAT REFORM:
THIS NARRATIVE, AFFORDING ANOTHER
Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin,
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED


"Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use,
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son,
Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing.
But is it fit or can it bear the shock
Of rational discussion, that a man
Compounded and made up, like other men,
Of elements tumultuous, in whom lust
And folly in as ample measure meet,
As in the bosom of the slave he rules,
Should be a despot absolute, and boast
Himself the only freeman of his land?"