Compare And Contrast Burning Of Our House And Olaudah Equiano

Imagine there's a car at a stop, trying to decide where to go next. There are two streets in front of it, one is pathed with failure and challenges, but success at the end of the road, while the other is short and easy and has failure up ahead. Anne Bradstreet from “ Burning of our House”, Equiano from “ The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano”, and the pilgrims of “ Of Plymouth Plantation”, all went down the street that had challenges, yet the never gave up. Bradstreet had to overcome losing her home and all her memories. Equiano had the challenge of being in the slave trade and even being sold by his own people. The early Americas identity was shaped by Hardships. Which is a part of life that everyone must go through, these …show more content…
anne explains “I'm coming now behold the size of flame consume my dwelling place and when I could no longer look That laid my goods now in the dust”(Bradstreet pg. 1). Anne expresses that all of her things are now destroyed. Another example she says is “How did my Pleasant things in ashes lie and them behold no more shall I under thy roof no guest shall sit”(Bradstreet pg. 1). Bradstreet is upset that she will no longer be able to have more.memories in her house. Later Bradstreet, realizes that the house is not important and she could and have other good moments anywhere else because she has …show more content…
His hardship was probably the worst because he was abused and traded by his own kind. When Equiano was captured it was the beginning of the slavery era, where it was in high demand to have “black gold”. One hardships that may have tramaticly affect him was the conditions on the slave boat he tell the reader his experience which was, “ One day they had taken a number of fishes; End when they had killed and satisfy themselves with as many as they thought fit ,You are astonished man who were on the deck ,Rather than give any of them to us as we expected ,Add the remaining fish into the sea”(Equiano pg. 3). He shows the reader that they were starved and treated like animals. Another example that expresses how they were treated, “The closest of the Place, and the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn, almost suffocated us”(Equiano pg. 4). The reader not only sees did the slave traitors starve them, they even made them stay in these outrageous conditions as well. Equiano what do all this hardship and never give up if you would have gave up you would have never bought his freedom years