An American Slave Identity Analysis

In a slave narrative , Christine Stark, who survived a sex slavery in the United States, recounts the shocking callousness that was used to control her “ These men gang rape us. They rape us with dogs. They rape us with knives and guns…” Every human being has the right to live and experience. The liberty to experience life in how one’s conscious mind would like to. Life is a simple but also complex term, simple because it’s one word, but complex since it is open to interpretation. What does it truly mean to live life? There are thousands and thousands of answers to this question. When one develops an identity, a unique characteristic will form that belongs to only one. That person can choose what it means to live a favorable life in their terms. In Shark’s perspective, the goal of her masters is to deprive her of any feelings of control or desire to resist. They made her hopeless and she turned against …show more content…
He chooses to identify himself as an American Slave without disgrace. A title is extremely important, it is evident in every newspaper, book, article, and journal because it is the first impression the audience reads. It promotes anticipation and allows the reader to decide whether they want to continue to read the book. Frederick Douglass is not ashamed to share his imperfection with the world and wants others to know the darker side of the society. Developing an identity is a long process. In his narrative he says that the cruelty he was exposed to transformed him from a man to “brute” one. Identity does not develop in one day, rather it is mini components of memories and experiences added