The central idea of Douglass’s story is that Douglass was a slave in Master Hugh’s family, and he was taught the alphabet. From then on, he started to learn reading and writing by himself through various stratagems. He hated being a slave and planned to escape. The details he provides include how his mistress treated him differently, he read the books about freedom and abolition that give him the desire to escape, how he resort to various stratagems to learn reading and writing.
2) In Lucy Grealy’s Mirror, I can feel the emotion of angry, helpless, unsympathetic. Because Grealy describes a series of incidents, including her painful memory of childhood in hospital, she got insulted by men and boys, she covered her face beneath the hair and clothes, and that she liked Halloween because she can hide her face under the mask. She utilized the negative tone. Grealy doesn’t put together a linear narrative, because she described her grown up first, and then turned to her childhood, talking about what happened to her in her childhood, the chemotherapy process, after that she also inserted an …show more content…
Through the life story, I can get to know that how people will react in the same situation. Like how people study in their childhood, how people fall in love, how they treat their friends and family. These experiences can broaden my horizon and let me know that I still have a lot of things to study. If people refuse to understand other’s life story, I will be locked in my own world, without knowing anything that happened in the outside world. People will become more and more selfish cause they only care about what they did. And in the same time, they will lose many useful information that will help them in the future, because other people’s life is good tutorial for them to view their