Compare And Contrast What's Your Name Girl By Frederick Douglass

Slavery vs. Freedom
In the beginning of human enslavement abolitionism was not enough to end slavery in many people’s lives in the years (1619 – 1865). Maya Angelou says about the narrator from “What’s Your Name Girl?” it only seem like Margaret wants freedom from her mistress because she felt she was being kept to do white people’s work and duties. She did not like being mistreated all the time by her mistress because of her skin color. Fredrick Douglass on “Learning How to Read and Write” his mistress was overcompensating by following her husband’s commands on ceasing instructions for Douglass on learning how to read and write. He only wanted eternal liberty and freedom from his captivity. Both narrators Margaret and Douglass feel they
“I had to quit the job, but the problem was going to be how to do it.” Margaret began to make mistakes when cleaning, but that was not enough. “I had begun to leave egg yolk on the dishes and wasn’t putting much heart in polishing the silver.” After endless tries Margaret breaks one Mrs. Cullinan precious Virginia dishes. “You mean to say she broke our Virginia dishes? What we gone do?” Mrs. Cullinan cried louder. “That clumsy nigger. Clumsy little black nigger.” Infuriated her mistress finally called Margaret by her real name. “Her name’s Margaret, goddamn it, her name’s
One story has a woman’s point of view and the other a man, both wanting the same desire “freedom”. They both were kept as slaves from their mistress and did not have the opportunity to finish school. If even given the chance for someone to teach them they were selfish enough to discontinue Margaret and Douglass teaching lessons. The narrator from “What’s Your Name Girl?” focuses on Margaret, she did not seem to be as motivated to have liberty. She always had conflicts with Mrs. Cullinan, Margaret learned to release her anger by writing about her mistress in her journal. For the other narrator from “Learning to Read and Write” he focused more on his liberty, did everything possible to escape and be free from his mistress. “Douglass learns how to read and write and escapes to the North.” Every human deserves freedom, learning how to read and write at its finest no matter the age, gender, race or