Equiano’s autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is written with a simple descriptive tone that translates his experiences without over saturating them with emotion. An example of this is when he speaks of the appalling conditions on his voyage through the Middle Passage, he describes the ships hold with “The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us’ (Equiano 165). Equiano uses a simple writing style such as this to engulf the reader with a perfect balance of descriptiveness that does not overwhelm the reader allowing them to remain engaged in a story that needed to be
Equiano’s autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is written with a simple descriptive tone that translates his experiences without over saturating them with emotion. An example of this is when he speaks of the appalling conditions on his voyage through the Middle Passage, he describes the ships hold with “The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us’ (Equiano 165). Equiano uses a simple writing style such as this to engulf the reader with a perfect balance of descriptiveness that does not overwhelm the reader allowing them to remain engaged in a story that needed to be