Slavery :: Slavery Essays

Escaping from slavery in 1838 had to be a treacherous experience escaping slavery at any time would be or so slaves couldnt read or write, but one slave, Fredrick Douglass, broke that barrier and art objecty more. In this particular writing he uses a wide-open deposit of mind to clearly get his thoughts across. He does this by using a wide variety of diction along with sentence fluency. An example can be seen in every sentence of every paragraph. I saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust. It was a most painful situation and, to understand it, one must needs experience it, or imagine himself in similar circumstances. His storey point of view roughly slavery, or rather first person experience on slavery, is expressed throughout as he explains slavery as existence both life and death. How someone can write with such strong emotion, is beyond me, but Douglass does more than that. He captures and captivates the reader into thinking about and imagining his experiences. Through the use of concrete language, Fredrick Douglass, relates his readers to the life of a slave while at the same time explaining how one could never understand unless he experiences the hardships of slavery on his own. Fredrick Douglass has such a talent at pulling his readers into the writing and making them envision what is happening, that anyone could fall in love with his writing. An example can be found in, There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger Another common figure of speech found some(prenominal) times within the passage is the use of metaphors. Some are seen in,I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions, being seized upon by his fellow-man, as the hideous crocodile seizes upon his prey, and among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts. By using such metaphors, Douglass is helping his readers fail imagine his emotions. Each sentence flows fluidly and without imperfection. There ar e no apostrophes or harsh-sounding words that do not belong or choke among the others. The words fit together perfectly, as do the ideas in order to make a remarkable essay filled with emotion.