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    The document summarizes chapters 7 and 8 of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. It discusses how Douglass realized that slavery would consume his entire life, leading him to persist in learning to read and write, which helped enlighten him to the truth about slavery. It also analyzes Douglass's use of personification to describe how slavery changed Mrs. Auld's personality, and his use of metaphor to compare escaping the plantation to escaping a lion's jaws. Finally, it asks what factors allowed the white boys to further Douglass's education.

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    The document summarizes chapters 7 and 8 of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. It discusses how Douglass realized that slavery would consume his entire life, leading him to persist in learning to read and write, which helped enlighten him to the truth about slavery. It also analyzes Douglass's use of personification to describe how slavery changed Mrs. Auld's personality, and his use of metaphor to compare escaping the plantation to escaping a lion's jaws. Finally, it asks what factors allowed the white boys to further Douglass's education.

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    The document summarizes chapters 7 and 8 of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. It discusses how Douglass realized that slavery would consume his entire life, leading him to persist in learning to read and write, which helped enlighten him to the truth about slavery. It also analyzes Douglass's use of personification to describe how slavery changed Mrs. Auld's personality, and his use of metaphor to compare escaping the plantation to escaping a lion's jaws. Finally, it asks what factors allowed the white boys to further Douglass's education.

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    Chapters 7 and 8

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    Andrea Nalbandian
    The document summarizes chapters 7 and 8 of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. It discusses how Douglass realized that slavery would consume his entire life, leading him to persist in learning to read and write, which helped enlighten him to the truth about slavery. It also analyzes Douglass's use of personification to describe how slavery changed Mrs. Auld's personality, and his use of metaphor to compare escaping the plantation to escaping a lion's jaws. Finally, it asks what factors allowed the white boys to further Douglass's education.

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    Nalbandian 1

    Andrea Nalbandian

    Mrs. Tucker

    AP Lang/Comp, Period 5

    15 October 2020

    Chapters 7 and 8

    1. Theme: ​Douglass’s realization that slavery will consume his entire life leads him become

    persistent to read and write, which results in the his enlightenment of the truth of slavery.

    ● “You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, _but I am a slave for ​life​!_ Have not I as
    good a right to be free as you have?”(Douglass 25).

    ● While conversing with the white children, Douglass shocks himself by responding to the
    boys’ question in such a manner, and from this answer he concludes that his future path
    has already been paved. As Douglass continues to learn, his understanding of social
    injustice and slavery only grow. These boys not only provide Douglass with an
    education, but additionally uphold his developing political feelings.

    2a. Rhetorical Strategy from Chapter 7: Personification

    ● When talking about the change in Mrs. Auld’s outlook on him and other slaves, Douglass
    says “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition
    gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.”(22).

    ● Frederick emphasizes how slavery can not only alter the lives of the black population, but
    white as well. When Douglass first met her he said that she had a kind heart, but once she
    received him as a slave and saw other people with their slaves she became spiteful and
    cold hearted. This change in her personality only adds to Douglass's realization of the
    true brutality of enslavement.

    2b. Rhetorical Strategy from Chapter 8: Metaphor

    ● When describing his emotions towards leaving the plantation Douglass compares,“​I had
    escaped worse than the lion's jaws.”(32).
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    ● Frederick voices that by escaping the plantation, he had gotten away from something
    more terrible than a lion's jaw. This opens the readers eyes to the true horrors of life on
    the plantation. What Douglass really implied was that he simply experienced and
    emerged from something terrible and felt sentiments like those of brushes with death or
    individuals that are near death.

    3. ​What factors allowed for the white boys to further Fredericks education?

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