I learned a decent amount about narratives, autobiographies, and captivity genres. I had never read a narrative or a captivity before this class. I had always assumed that narratives and autobiographies were the same thing, and I had never heard of a captivity genre. Although narratives are alike to autobiographies, the difference between them is that an autobiography is written about the writer’s entire life, a narrative is in chronological order of a specific event. An autobiography is usually written at the end of the writer’s life, but a narrative can be written at any point in the writers life. I learned that a captivity narrative is a story about someone who has been captured by people of opposing beliefs.
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All three of these men were heavily religious, and believed God was always present. In chapter 10 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass talks about his master Covey, “Such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God” (Douglass 37). In this quote, he is making his point that slaveholders can not in anyway be religious. Douglass could not understand how someone putting other people through such torture could be religious. He had a stronger hatred for “religious” slaveholders than he had for people that pretended to be religious, which was one of Douglass’s biggest pet peeves. In part one of Franklin’s autobiography, he writes “And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge, that I owe the mention’d happiness of my past life to his kind providence” (Franklin 753). Franklin owes all of his success and fortune to God, as he clearly states in the text. He wants his son to have a strong belief in God also. John Williams believed that God was always present. He claimed that captivity was something like a test from God, and it guided them away from being evil. Through his captivity, like Douglass, he had a strong sense of faith in God no matter how hard things started to
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All three of these men were heavily religious, and believed God was always present. In chapter 10 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass talks about his master Covey, “Such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God” (Douglass 37). In this quote, he is making his point that slaveholders can not in anyway be religious. Douglass could not understand how someone putting other people through such torture could be religious. He had a stronger hatred for “religious” slaveholders than he had for people that pretended to be religious, which was one of Douglass’s biggest pet peeves. In part one of Franklin’s autobiography, he writes “And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge, that I owe the mention’d happiness of my past life to his kind providence” (Franklin 753). Franklin owes all of his success and fortune to God, as he clearly states in the text. He wants his son to have a strong belief in God also. John Williams believed that God was always present. He claimed that captivity was something like a test from God, and it guided them away from being evil. Through his captivity, like Douglass, he had a strong sense of faith in God no matter how hard things started to