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This story is about a slave named Frederick Douglass. It takes place in Maryland during slavery time around 1860. Frederick had a hard life. His mom died at only 7 years, he had no clue who his father was, and he was a slave. There were a lot of hardships at this time – fights between slaves and their masters, even between plantations.
This narrative of Frederick Douglass really hits all your emotions, from anger of slavery, to the sadness of separated families. You feel as if you’re traveling along with Frederick on his journey to free himself from slavery. He meets a lot of people along the way as he is traveling from master to master. One of the more important ones is Mrs. Auld, who actually cares for Frederick, it seems, and even helps him learn the ABCs. He uses this to his advantage as much as he can until Mr. Auld refused to allow his wife to do such a thing as teach a black man. So Frederick moves on and tricks kids into playing games so he could learn new words everyday.
As Frederick grows older, he becomes more wise and rebellious towards his master, who at this time was Thomas Auld. Mr. Auld sent him away to Covey’s farm for not tending to the horses correctly, and that’s where Frederick knows he’s done being a slave. He refuses to do the work asked of him by Covey, gets the other slaves involved in an escape plan, ends up getting caught, runs away for a little, then comes back and fights Covey!
So much went on during this book it was hard to put down. It’s a heartfelt book that many others should read. Even though it’s a narrative, it’s worth it.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is a great book about the American slave and his fight for freedom. Frederick has spent most of his life living on plantations and growing up not being able to stand up against his white owners.
Once Frederick was able to work on his own in the city of Baltimore, he learned the luxuries of being free. He learned that reading was a huge key for him to become free. When he first met Mrs. Auld, she tried to teach him how to read and basically built the foundation for Frederick to strive to become a free man. Over time Mr. Auld learned of what Mrs. Auld was doing and told her to stop immediately. He told her that slaves being smart will only make them sad and bad workers that want to be free. Sure enough Mrs. Auld stopped teaching him but by this time Frederick was determined to become a free man!
Frederick then dedicated himself into his attempt to free himself of slavery. Take yourself for a ride into slavery and embark of this journey by reading this book with a first-hand narrative from Frederick Douglass himself.
I thought that this book was very interesting. It really made me see how hard it was for a slave to survive. It made me realize how good of a life I have today, and how many opportunities I have to do things. What I mean by that is to help out my mom more in the kitchen or do some yard work, things that I could be doing to make everyone’s life a little easier because now I have realized that I do take things for granted.
I thought that in the book Douglass was pretty strong and brave. He fought through all of the rough times and even when he was not allowed to be taught, he found a way to learn or practice something. He was smart, and in those days I think that all of the slaves needed to be smart considering if they make the wrong move with the wrong person it could be lead to getting badly beaten or sometimes even being killed. In this world back then, you had to fend for yourself and make smart moves no matter how fed up you were with being treated poorly.
Douglass really had a way of writing this book in a sense that you wont want to stop reading. He tells his stories and life in a way that is still very adventurous. This book has adventure and information that you will learn throughout. It is a very inviting book once you start reading and will inform you on what went on back then and how much things have changed.
This book is about what life was like for slaves in the 1800s. Frederick went through a lot but ran away soon enough that he still had time to live his life outside of slavery. Not many slaves had the courage to run away and didn’t think they’d ever get away with it. Frederick was a very smart man for someone that never got any real education throughout his life.
All throughout his life he had to deal with getting whipped and going without enough food. As a teenager when he got strong and big, he was fed up with getting beaten for every little thing and eventually fought back. Fighting back helped him. His owner that he fought never whipped him again. He moved all over the place, so that was only for about a year of his life as a slave where he didn’t get whipped or beaten.
As a young boy he had to sit there and watch his aunt get horribly beaten. He didn’t have a mom or dad growing up and sometimes would get traded to a place where some of his other relatives were. He went through a lot of pain in his life, physical and mental. At one point he had to walk 5 miles through the woods dripping in blood.
The true story of a slave who escaped to freedom, written in the 1st person.
November 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm |
This story is about a slave named Frederick Douglass. It takes place in Maryland during slavery time around 1860. Frederick had a hard life. His mom died at only 7 years, he had no clue who his father was, and he was a slave. There were a lot of hardships at this time – fights between slaves and their masters, even between plantations.
Lance, junior
November 10, 2009 at 6:08 pm |
This narrative of Frederick Douglass really hits all your emotions, from anger of slavery, to the sadness of separated families. You feel as if you’re traveling along with Frederick on his journey to free himself from slavery. He meets a lot of people along the way as he is traveling from master to master. One of the more important ones is Mrs. Auld, who actually cares for Frederick, it seems, and even helps him learn the ABCs. He uses this to his advantage as much as he can until Mr. Auld refused to allow his wife to do such a thing as teach a black man. So Frederick moves on and tricks kids into playing games so he could learn new words everyday.
As Frederick grows older, he becomes more wise and rebellious towards his master, who at this time was Thomas Auld. Mr. Auld sent him away to Covey’s farm for not tending to the horses correctly, and that’s where Frederick knows he’s done being a slave. He refuses to do the work asked of him by Covey, gets the other slaves involved in an escape plan, ends up getting caught, runs away for a little, then comes back and fights Covey!
So much went on during this book it was hard to put down. It’s a heartfelt book that many others should read. Even though it’s a narrative, it’s worth it.
Lindsay, junior
November 11, 2009 at 1:30 pm |
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is a great book about the American slave and his fight for freedom. Frederick has spent most of his life living on plantations and growing up not being able to stand up against his white owners.
Once Frederick was able to work on his own in the city of Baltimore, he learned the luxuries of being free. He learned that reading was a huge key for him to become free. When he first met Mrs. Auld, she tried to teach him how to read and basically built the foundation for Frederick to strive to become a free man. Over time Mr. Auld learned of what Mrs. Auld was doing and told her to stop immediately. He told her that slaves being smart will only make them sad and bad workers that want to be free. Sure enough Mrs. Auld stopped teaching him but by this time Frederick was determined to become a free man!
Frederick then dedicated himself into his attempt to free himself of slavery. Take yourself for a ride into slavery and embark of this journey by reading this book with a first-hand narrative from Frederick Douglass himself.
Jake, junior
November 11, 2009 at 1:36 pm |
I thought that this book was very interesting. It really made me see how hard it was for a slave to survive. It made me realize how good of a life I have today, and how many opportunities I have to do things. What I mean by that is to help out my mom more in the kitchen or do some yard work, things that I could be doing to make everyone’s life a little easier because now I have realized that I do take things for granted.
I thought that in the book Douglass was pretty strong and brave. He fought through all of the rough times and even when he was not allowed to be taught, he found a way to learn or practice something. He was smart, and in those days I think that all of the slaves needed to be smart considering if they make the wrong move with the wrong person it could be lead to getting badly beaten or sometimes even being killed. In this world back then, you had to fend for yourself and make smart moves no matter how fed up you were with being treated poorly.
Douglass really had a way of writing this book in a sense that you wont want to stop reading. He tells his stories and life in a way that is still very adventurous. This book has adventure and information that you will learn throughout. It is a very inviting book once you start reading and will inform you on what went on back then and how much things have changed.
Lauren, junior
November 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
This book is about what life was like for slaves in the 1800s. Frederick went through a lot but ran away soon enough that he still had time to live his life outside of slavery. Not many slaves had the courage to run away and didn’t think they’d ever get away with it. Frederick was a very smart man for someone that never got any real education throughout his life.
All throughout his life he had to deal with getting whipped and going without enough food. As a teenager when he got strong and big, he was fed up with getting beaten for every little thing and eventually fought back. Fighting back helped him. His owner that he fought never whipped him again. He moved all over the place, so that was only for about a year of his life as a slave where he didn’t get whipped or beaten.
As a young boy he had to sit there and watch his aunt get horribly beaten. He didn’t have a mom or dad growing up and sometimes would get traded to a place where some of his other relatives were. He went through a lot of pain in his life, physical and mental. At one point he had to walk 5 miles through the woods dripping in blood.
Emily, junior