For example in this quote, “I then asked him the use of it, and who made it; he told me it was snow, but I could not in anywise understand him. He asked me if we had no such thing in my country; I told him, No. I then asked him the use of it, and who made it; he told me a great man in the heavens, called God. But here again I was to all intents and purposes at a loss to understand him...I asked all I could about it; and they gave me to understand it was worshipping God, who made us and all things,” (Equiano,98). Here Equiano paints a picture of how vulnerable he once was and how easily he could be influenced because of how ill educated he was. If he had a person he trusted and that person told him one or another thing he believed them because he had no previous background education to base his thoughts upon and thus he was completely vulnerable just like a child because he never had read any books that explain
For example in this quote, “I then asked him the use of it, and who made it; he told me it was snow, but I could not in anywise understand him. He asked me if we had no such thing in my country; I told him, No. I then asked him the use of it, and who made it; he told me a great man in the heavens, called God. But here again I was to all intents and purposes at a loss to understand him...I asked all I could about it; and they gave me to understand it was worshipping God, who made us and all things,” (Equiano,98). Here Equiano paints a picture of how vulnerable he once was and how easily he could be influenced because of how ill educated he was. If he had a person he trusted and that person told him one or another thing he believed them because he had no previous background education to base his thoughts upon and thus he was completely vulnerable just like a child because he never had read any books that explain