Latisha Chavez African American History/325 August 11, 2010 Project 2 Professor Ann Becker Women played a major role under slavery; most books you read speak about the men and how they coped, what they went through and what events took place when men were around. What about when they weren’t around? When they were fighting wars and working on farms, what family member would keep the family stable until the men came home (Women). Movements that were set up in order to make our schools segregated were set up and run by whom? Babies who were conceived were produced by whom?
After Alexie became a writer, he often visited schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids and let them read books. Indian children were expected to be stupid but after they read books they are refreshed. He wrote about those kids in the article [run on sentence. End the last sentence with a period and then integrate the quote] “they have read my books. They have read many books.
He soon began to seek more and more education and to use his abilities to help teach other slaves to read from bible studies. His life story is recorded in his autobiography “Narrative of the Life of an American Slave” (1845) Wikipedia report on his escape to slavery reads… “On September 3, 1838, Douglass successfully escaped by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor’s uniform and carried identification papers provided by a free black seaman.
Knowledge Is Power Knowledge, as we know, can be powerful and because of this, the changes yielded by knowledge can be distinguish. The book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, is a story about a man who uses knowledge to make a change: Douglass escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of the most important writers. It is from Hugh Auld that Douglass learns this notion that the power of knowledge can lead to the way of freedom, as Auld forbids his wife to teach Douglass how to read and write because education ruins slaves. Douglass presents his literacy as the primary way that he is able to free himself, and as his greatest tool to work for the freedom of all slaves. Throughout reading, many readers might think Douglass’s battle with Mr.
September 10, 2012 Response to the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was a slave for about seven years in Master Hugh’s family. In the beginning, his mistress was such a kind, loving, gentle, and giving person, and treated him as she would anyone else. She taught him the alphabet, and that was the beginning of his desire to learn to read. Realizing this and because of her husband’s influence as a slaveholder, she gradually changed her ideas of trying to help Douglass. As a result, she became very bitter, angry, and cold-hearted toward him, and did everything she could to keep him from reading.
Malcolm X goes on to say that he would spend the rest of his days reading, “If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man.” Malcolm X describes prison as his college. He thinks that no one got more out of prison that he did because of what he was able to accomplish with reading and writing. Malcolm X believes that normal colleges have too many distractions to truly be effective. I believe that Malcolm X overcame a huge obstacle by not being able to read and write. Having a friend for Malcolm X to emulate was probably the turning point and the motivation for him.
He tries to persuade you to feel a sympathy for the blacks and Native Americans but he puts down the white man and government at the same time. The audience Zinn is trying to reach is anywhere from high school students to adults. His book is unlike Walker, who writes her novel in a story form. This story comes from her family though it was passed down from her great-grandmother. Her story is also semi-fictional as seeing it was passed down there are opportunities to miss or add a part of her story.
The rise of the book took place in Baltimore when he had his new master and mistress. The mistress started off treating him with so much kindness. She taught him his alphabet and started to teach him how to read, she clothed him, and gave him a sufficient amount of food. Mr. Hugh Auld and Mrs. Sophia Auld and their family care for Frederick. When Frederick was sent to his old plantation because of the death of his old master, he realized what he had back in Baltimore.
The ability to read and write awoke something inside of him that gave him homemade education. Malcolm X was sensitive to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that were afflicting the black face in America. Books was Malcolm X life he said you never catch him without a book. Malcolm X was always studying something so he can help the next black man. Malcolm X spent the rest of his life reading books.
Douglass only knew one thing, how to be a slave. That is, until he was granted teachings from his mistress. “My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door, a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings.” (Douglas, 1955, p. 19) Everything that Douglass has done to get closer to being free, all stems back to this day; where he was shown compassion, kindness, and a willingness to teach. Though, Mr. Auld put a stop to this soon after it began, “if you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master—to do as he is told to do.