We all have household tasks that we hate to do, whether it is cleaning the bathroom or the kitchen, most of us want someone else to do it for us. Not all of us get the chance to get someone else to handle those unpleasant chores for us. If any of us did, I would hope that we would treat the person who is handling such tasks for us with dignity and respect. That we would keep in mind that our actions and inactions have a direct impact on the person who is working for us. I would hope that we would remember that this person is a human being. This is something that was not considered when it came to Frado, the six-year-old girl who was abandon to her own personal hell, in the story Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story
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This seems normal at first, since she enters the Bellmonts home when she is only six years old. Six-year-old children can typically do very little when it comes to housework and much else. However, her workload didn’t increase because of her capabilities, I believe that it increased because of the hatred directed towards her. Mrs. Bellmont quite clearly despised Frado. She wasn’t a pleasant woman to begin with, she is described as a “whirlwind charged with fire, draggers and spikes” (Wilson 15). As well as, “self-willed, haughty, undisciplined, arbitrary and severe” (Wilson 15). Her bitterness towards the child was certainly rooted in the fact that Frado was left with her family without them being informed that she was to stay with them until she was of …show more content…
The abuse itself may be the reason some think she couldn’t forget them. I believe it is because she never had any other family to compare too. The likelihood that Frado even remembers what her mother looks like after she was left her alone at the age of six, is extremely low. Mrs. Bellmont, with all her horrors and flaws, was the only mother that Frado ever knew. James, Jack, Jane and Mary, they only siblings she would ever interact with. No matter how horribly, or wonderfully the Bellmonts treated her they would always be the only family she had, despite the fact that she would never actually be family. The Bellmonts shaped her life simply because they were a part of the environment that she grew up
This seems normal at first, since she enters the Bellmonts home when she is only six years old. Six-year-old children can typically do very little when it comes to housework and much else. However, her workload didn’t increase because of her capabilities, I believe that it increased because of the hatred directed towards her. Mrs. Bellmont quite clearly despised Frado. She wasn’t a pleasant woman to begin with, she is described as a “whirlwind charged with fire, draggers and spikes” (Wilson 15). As well as, “self-willed, haughty, undisciplined, arbitrary and severe” (Wilson 15). Her bitterness towards the child was certainly rooted in the fact that Frado was left with her family without them being informed that she was to stay with them until she was of …show more content…
The abuse itself may be the reason some think she couldn’t forget them. I believe it is because she never had any other family to compare too. The likelihood that Frado even remembers what her mother looks like after she was left her alone at the age of six, is extremely low. Mrs. Bellmont, with all her horrors and flaws, was the only mother that Frado ever knew. James, Jack, Jane and Mary, they only siblings she would ever interact with. No matter how horribly, or wonderfully the Bellmonts treated her they would always be the only family she had, despite the fact that she would never actually be family. The Bellmonts shaped her life simply because they were a part of the environment that she grew up