There is an expert called “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” that is in my opinion motivational and uplifting with the way that Frederick Douglass doesn’t back down the whole time with his struggle and torment of his oppressor. The autobiography of Frederick Douglass explores the unfair life of Frederick as a kid and continuing to when he is a  young adult who escaped the life of slavery. This article even goes into details of Frederick’s response to the effect of slavery on his development as an individual and how he was trying to convince the reader of how inhumane slavery was to convince them and gain followers to stop slavery for good . The motivating issue that interests me in the writing was the lack of education and knowledge that fellow African Americans and Frederick himself had as a slave and how they weren’t treated like humans. in addiction, the article continues to state the disadvantage and lack of care that slaves endured in society and their everyday occupations. 

         For example, Frederick’s mistress change her ideas and was influenced by the act and pressure of slavery. A quote that supports this is “Mistress, and teaching me the alphabet, had given me the age, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell” as well as “She finally became even more violent and her opposition Then her husband himself” This expresses the abuse that was conflicted and how learning just a little made him one step ahead of reaching freedom. Furthermore when Frederick talked about the differences between being a slave for the moment and being a slave forever he used the white boys that he used to hang out with. He stated  “the moral which I gained from the dialogues was the power of the truth over the conscience of even slaveholders” and “you will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life!”This helps the readers to comprehend the lifestyle differences and unfair treatment that one went through as a person of color.

         The article even suggests that education is the key to freedom or what I believe Frederick wanted to say as his message was that with knowledge and an open mind nothing is out of your reach, not even freedom. The article state “the moral which I gained from the dialogues was the power of the truth over the conscience of even the slaveholders”. These quotes are the impact of learning .which gave him the ability to learn and blossom his knowledge on events that were going on in his life. In the long run, this would be the catalyst that shape his mindset and a powerful tool to break the chain of ignorance and slavery. At the end of the article Frederick Douglass gain his freedom from running away and starting a new life in the north and with his discovery and ideals, he dedicated himself to bring the ongoing issue of slavery to an end.

         Now that I went over the summary of Frederick Douglass’ pieces of Narrative I will explain to you “my fellow peers” of my analysis of the same article. But the first thing to yourself “ Why is education a way of escaping the grasp of slavery?” That is a question that’s tackled by this article, and it’s fascinating to read how Frederick Douglass used knowledge to his advantage on multiple occasions. Like escaping from his abusers, ultimately gaining his freedom, and just using his knowledge to outwit people. This is inspirational because he was half our age when accomplishing all that. I know that we can feel for his struggles and for sure would lead to discussion in our zoom meetings. Anyways I feel that this Narrative should be appreciated way more and would be great to use for motivational speeches and a way for people to strive for better in life. 

          In the article, Frederick Douglass states his claim very briefly, but he spreads his claim out throughout the article almost like a puzzle. According to the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” chapter 7, “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful thieves, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I interpreted them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men”.Another quote from the same chapter state,“ From this time I understood the words repeal and abolitionist, and always drew near when that word was spoken, hoping to hear the substance of weight to myself and fellow-slaves. The light broke in upon me by degrees.” So in other words these quotations are suggesting that slavery is favoring keeping slaves unenlightened. That’s like our professors or parents trying to deprive us of learnedness and keep us from knowing about our surroundings. Also that from Douglass educating himself he’s learning fresh about how the world works and running sensible of his possessor’s demeanor and the meaning of slavery overall. 

         As stated, Fredrick Douglass reason to support his claims to gain free will and freedom. The way he achieved this is from learning the grammar and a word that he’d learned. Which was negation that means antislavery, this enlightened him that there are people against this act and are willing to fight against the strongmen. Fredrick Douglass uses ( Norms) by speaking of his own experience and suffering of slavery in the first person. That makes the jotting try and goes in-depth with Douglass’s personality. He uses (PATHOS) by expressing his chords in his document with fear of being caught with his books and education. As well as abhorrence for his master’s abuse, and sadness of the accomplishment of slavery. This exposes us to the harsh nature of slavery and makes us want to put the slaves who were forced to endure that treatment. 

        Frederick Douglass used ( Emblems) by his amazing written and well-organized account of events. He writes fairly and gives credit where it’s due to avoid unjust bias. Like we do when citing anything in our work. Originally, I feel that Frederick did an outstanding job of expressing his feelings and compassion when talking about his experience, almost like bringing his memories to life. So this is a great essay for people to understand the power of knowledge and make a difference for us to make a change. Or to say enlighten us as knowledge has done to Frederick Douglass. This insight of Frederick Douglass’ experience has greatly affected the way I see education, making me appreciate it way more than I’ve done anteriorly and make a change to you as well.