Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Sympathy Essay
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress” - Frederick Douglass. Douglass suggested that if you do not struggle to reach your goals and aspiration, you will not take the steps to reaching your goals. Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 near Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass was born right into slavery and soon taken from his mother before he turned one. Douglass was a very educated Black man , even though being a black man during the 1800’s was arduous he stuck through and faced the obstacles that was required with being a black enslaved man. The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass was an autobiography that explained Douglass life when he was a slave and how he personally dealt with life during the 1800’s. Even though sympathy
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Throughout the whole Narrative Douglass never portrayed his situation as being the worst. Even though he was also like many other slaves being beaten and tortured he would still find a way to make his situation seem less brutal while acknowledging other slaves that had been beaten or tortured even worst. In The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a group of slaves including Douglass was being sold to wealthy white slave owners. While he was waiting to be bought, Douglass thought to himself how lucky and how kindly he had been treated by his master and mistress. He said that other slaves backs had scares that represented the suffering and abuse they had been through while his was still tender because of the little amount of whipping he had received, due to the kind and warmness he had sustain by his past slaveholders. Sympathy was a way for Douglass to overcome his difficulties because he had pity for himself. He always looked at his situation as being lucky and how blessed he was because he didn't have to experience nearly half of the other things other slaves had to. Therefore by Douglass being humble it showed how being humble and having sympathy for others helped him overcome great
Throughout the whole Narrative Douglass never portrayed his situation as being the worst. Even though he was also like many other slaves being beaten and tortured he would still find a way to make his situation seem less brutal while acknowledging other slaves that had been beaten or tortured even worst. In The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a group of slaves including Douglass was being sold to wealthy white slave owners. While he was waiting to be bought, Douglass thought to himself how lucky and how kindly he had been treated by his master and mistress. He said that other slaves backs had scares that represented the suffering and abuse they had been through while his was still tender because of the little amount of whipping he had received, due to the kind and warmness he had sustain by his past slaveholders. Sympathy was a way for Douglass to overcome his difficulties because he had pity for himself. He always looked at his situation as being lucky and how blessed he was because he didn't have to experience nearly half of the other things other slaves had to. Therefore by Douglass being humble it showed how being humble and having sympathy for others helped him overcome great