Education is a term affiliated with knowledge and growth which are considered to be two positives. Not very often do you think of education with a negative connotation. In Frederick Douglass’ narrative he is able to provide his personal evidence with both of these claims. He uses irony as well as character development to explain how although education can give you the power to grow and gain knowledge, sometimes knowledge is also left better off being unknown. Irony was a very common device that was used throughout the entire narrative and using it to help describe his educational experiences is just one example. He first began to learn simple things such as the alphabet when he was in Baltimore, Maryland. He was tough by a lady who he referred
