Knowledge – The Key to the Locked Door of Freedom
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both suggest that knowledge is the key to freedom.
Freedom means something different to each and every one of us. For the most part, freedom applies to rights, religion, speech, or just plainly to be all that you can be. Without those core fundamentals of freedom, one’s hands are tied to try and become most anything. When one gains knowledge and understanding about what they can be, they open their own door to gaining these core fundamentals by using that knowledge, and therefore they become free.
When speaking in terms of freedom according to Jim (Huckleberry Finn’s slave), his meaning of freedom is to be a man that is not owned by another man and in return can go out and be whatever he wishes to be. He also knows that freedom will help him free his family and fellow slaves. Jim is constantly on the hunt for knowledge because he knows that once he becomes free one day, he will need knowledge to …show more content…
Frederick has a better understanding about what knowledge can do for him because he grew up on multiple plantations. When Frederick lives on these plantations as a child, he realizes that when he finds a book he receives scolding. He soon realizes why the books are being taken away from him when Hugh Auld says to his wife when she is trying to teach young Frederick to read, “It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.” (page 64). When Frederick hears this, he was crushed and realizes that Hugh is trying to keep him as a slave forever by keeping books away. After this, Frederick knows he must gain access to books and basic types of knowledge in order to become
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both suggest that knowledge is the key to freedom.
Freedom means something different to each and every one of us. For the most part, freedom applies to rights, religion, speech, or just plainly to be all that you can be. Without those core fundamentals of freedom, one’s hands are tied to try and become most anything. When one gains knowledge and understanding about what they can be, they open their own door to gaining these core fundamentals by using that knowledge, and therefore they become free.
When speaking in terms of freedom according to Jim (Huckleberry Finn’s slave), his meaning of freedom is to be a man that is not owned by another man and in return can go out and be whatever he wishes to be. He also knows that freedom will help him free his family and fellow slaves. Jim is constantly on the hunt for knowledge because he knows that once he becomes free one day, he will need knowledge to …show more content…
Frederick has a better understanding about what knowledge can do for him because he grew up on multiple plantations. When Frederick lives on these plantations as a child, he realizes that when he finds a book he receives scolding. He soon realizes why the books are being taken away from him when Hugh Auld says to his wife when she is trying to teach young Frederick to read, “It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.” (page 64). When Frederick hears this, he was crushed and realizes that Hugh is trying to keep him as a slave forever by keeping books away. After this, Frederick knows he must gain access to books and basic types of knowledge in order to become