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Question 1 Part A Which statement is a central idea in Chapter 6 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? Education is liberating. All slaveholders are kind at first, but later grow to be cruel. Some slaveholders view enslaved people as their equals. Violence is sometimes justified. Question 2 Part B Which two statements from the text best support the answer in Part A? “...and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.” "Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell." “And of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so. His heart must be harder than stone, that could look upon these unmoved.” “Few are willing to incur the odium attaching to the reputation of being a cruel master; and above all things, they would not be known as not giving a slave enough to eat.” “That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord.”

Answer 1

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"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."

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“That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord.”

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Part A: Education is liberating

Part B: “...and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.” // "Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell."

Step-by-step explanation:

In chapter 6 of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" the author tells the story of the day when his Mistress tried to teach him to read, but her husband forbade her to continue teaching him. According to her husband, teaching a slave to read would take away his servile nature and put him in a privileged position where he would no longer be able to serve whites.

At that moment, Douglass understood that reading would be the essential to get him out of that life. In other words, Douglass shows that this event left him motivated to learn to read, because he managed to understand that education is liberating.