Question

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Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
1. How do Douglass’s word choices contribute to the tone of the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.

2. In the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, how does Mr. Auld’s decision to forbid his wife to teach Douglass to read change Douglass’s viewpoint about his enslavement? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.

Answer 1

2: Douglass learns the white man's power comes from the ability to prevent education to the slaves. And Douglass learn that he must learn to read and gain knowledge to free himself.

Mr. Auld says things that are stating if he learns to read (especially from his wife) then it wouldn’t be a good outcome for the slave (Douglass) future, because he would be of no use to them as a slave. Douglass realized “I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.” Yet, he wouldn’t stop there and was to still thrive and learn to read.