ANALYTICAL BOOK REVIEW

Analytical Book Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The autography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass was published in Boston in 1845. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, in Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1818. Frederick Douglass composed three autobiographies, and was a renowned abolitionist, reformer, reviewer and speaker. Frederick Douglass's narrative about his expertise as a slave and as laboring to endure in the rough world of slavery. Douglass's article is furthermore about how he wise to read and compose, and how he designed to get away slavery. In addition, Douglass clarified in his narrative, is how he sensed about slavery and how other slaves were treated. All through the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Douglass consistently uses figurative language, syntax, and farthest vigilance to minutia to support his viewpoint on slavery. In supplement to the use of these scholarly methods all through his memoir, Douglass furthermore encompassed the use of repetition and aligned structure heavily. In managing this, Douglass was adept to articulate his factual sentiments in the direction of slavery, and subsequent on construct and elaborate. Hence, Douglass' rhetorical aim of this route was considerably reinforced.

For demonstration of his narrative, he converses about his Aunt Hester who disobeyed the instructions of Mr. Plummer who was the overseer of Captain Anthony's slaves on his plantation (21). Aunt Hester was organized not to proceed out in the evenings to be in the occurrence of a juvenile man entitled, Ned Roberts, furthermore called "Lloyd's Ned." After being apprehended with him, Mr. Plummer penalized Aunt Hester in the cruelest way ever. Mr. Plummer exposed Aunt Hester from her bears to her waist and joined her hands simultaneously with rope. After managing this, he advanced to whip her with a hefty dairy cow skin. Blood started to drip on the floor where she stood and when she shouted out in agony, the harder Mr. Plummer strike her over her back. Seeing this, Douglass considered that he would be penalized the way his Aunt Hester was when not next the instructions of the expert / overseer. Publishing these horrific tales in his narrative, provided the whites in the North a possibility to glimpse through his knowledge and to let the every individual in the United States understand that slavery ...