Fredrick Douglass: A Literary Analysis

The base of a thought is formed by a memory, given form by the alphabet, taught when we were young. The letters and numbers created way back when, is the important thing we know as humans. There are others, but not as important. It is the building block of literacy. The internet may as well be the most awful, yet awesome thing we humans created, and continue to create on a daily basis.
Communication between other people would be unbearable if the generation of today were to go back in time where there was little to no internet in the area. Back then, people have to send letters, or telegraphs that took a long time between one another. Books were rare to come by as well. Only the rich had most of them. Fredrick Douglass’ Mistress was one of them, buying books for her son, often thrown in a corner, never to be bothered with again. Until Douglass came along and secretly snuck a look at them and learned how to read, write, and spell. It took him seven years to learn. …show more content…
My teacher didn’t like that very much, so I would draw on the desk. I never really understood why they would tell me to stop, but since I was a tactile child I would continue to touch things and other people by giving them hugs for too long, so they just gave me a book with risen ink and told me to read it, I didn’t know that it was for the blind, which is funny since I wasn’t blind. They told me to close my eyes when I did that, but I didn’t and ended up scratching the brail off and eating it. It was nasty, the parchment, I wouldn’t suggest it. I never liked the school I went to, not because it was early, or the bulling, but because of the lack of an interesting education. When I came to my new middle school, I didn’t know anything. Seriously, I was dumb, they put me into a slow group and such. Luckily, my mother taught me and my brother all the way up to sixth grade in one year, so I knew a little about