In Frederick Douglass’s “from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, written in the 19th century, a person certainly cannot empathize with someone else’s situation if he or she does not undergo it. The narrator’s distinct experience of brutal slavery is one an ordinary individual cannot fathom. An ordinary person born in freedom can never entirely grasp the barbarous atrociousness the narrator and many other slaves endure. No commoner that enjoys the God-given right to freedom feels the aching pain of a whipping or the fatigue of countless labor hours under the scorching sun. Also, the narrator expresses the epiphany he undergoes as he dignifies himself with the victorious battle against his slave-owner. The diction Douglass uses as
