Differences And Similarities Between Jacobs And Douglass

Jacobs’ language is personal and uses personal examples to make the reader feel like they are violating someone’s privacy or eavesdropping. Conversely, Douglass’ language is factual and less emotional, while still using personal examples and educating the reader on what is really going on. Both Jacobs’ and Douglass’ language and writing styles are useful and give us a lot of insight into the era and impact of slavery.
Douglass talks in a way that feels much likes lecturer on hour one of a four-hour lecture. It is easy to loose interest. Highly informative, he writes in a way that feels impersonal as though if it were textbook. Though, we learn from textbooks. He is trying to educate the reader about the truth behind slavery. Telling the reader
He doesn’t bring the reader in as much as Jacobs who directly calls out to her audience multiple times to give a warning or break. Jacobs pulls you in by your ears constantly shouting at the reader. Giving the reader a snap back into reality by contacting us directly. Hence her giving the reader a break to breathe with the new information given. “And now, reader, I come to a period in my unhappy life, which I would gladly forget if I could. The remembrance fills me with sorrow and shame” (Jacobs 233). She prepares you for bad times to come each time. Like she is giving a trigger warning in a way in her own novel. With Jacobs personal tone and writing this style truly gives the personal feeling. As though you are in the room with her as she writes this at a desk under a lamp. Tears dripping down her face onto the pages. Just watching her write this in front of your
Now a day’s people are timid about writing the truth because it could hurt or offend people. People hide behind their writing while Jacobs pushes the audience to read through and endure it. She’s is so brave really open. “She took really big risk talking about this. No matter whether the slave girl be as black as ebony or as fair as her mistress. In either case, there is no shadow of law to protect her from insult, from violence, or even from death; all these are inflicted by fiends who bear the shape of men,” (Jacobs 231). To understand the many troubles she went through as a slave and a woman. She talks about physical abuse sexual abuse women usually are shunned for this. Women who suffered this kind of abuse usually don’t want to talk about it because it can trigger the writer or people attack the woman. Saying it was her fault for looking a certain way or acting a certain way. Women like this help others feel stronger and empowered to share their