Thursday, November 12, 2009

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas

Style-not what said, but how it is aid. Style can be describe as formal or conversational, concise or elebroate, objective or subjectie. (figurative language, tone sentence length)

-he talks about his mater Mr. Covey
-He got sold by his master to be mr. covery for one year.
-first six months with him were hell
-one day he gets really sick while working and falls to the gournd
-mr. covey tells him to get up, but he can't
-he thens proceeds to beat him and hims him bleed form the head.
-he runs away goig to his old master
-he tells him of what covey is doing, but doesn't believe him
-while walking back the next day he meets this guy that takes him to go see his gf
-she tell shim to keep a root on his right side and it will protect him
-he goes sat morning and when he gets there covey sees him and runs after him
-he gets away and hides in the corn for the day
-the next day as he is doing horse chores covey comes up ready to whip him
=he doesn't let him and starts to fight him.
-he calls to Hughes, but fred drops kicks him and bill doesn't help either
-they go at if for two hours. finally covey gives up
-he was a slave for four more years but he was never beaten again.

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