The Story Of My Life And Frederick Douglass Analysis

Kids and adults today don’t care as much for an education like Keller and Douglass did in these stories. Keller and Douglass wanted to learn so badly that they went through the struggles that they had to. Hellen Keller was a blind and deaf woman and Fredrick Douglass was an African American slave that was not allowed to learn. Both "The Story of My Life" and "Narrative or the Life of Fredrick Douglas, an American Slave" share the central idea that education is worth the struggle they had to go through, but they do so in different ways To begin with, Keller’s struggle with education was different from Douglass’s because she was blind. When Miss. Sullivan, was trying to teach Keller what water was and how to spell it, she was having a hard time with it so Miss. Sullivan thought it would be a good idea to make it more physical for her. She took Keller out to the well house and put her hand under the running water, “Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten-a thrill of returning thought, and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand.” As well as the doll that the children at Perkins Institution made, “When I …show more content…
Keller was a blind woman who learned to read and write by touching and felling things, while Douglass was an American slave that learned from his mistress and white kids in the neighborhood. These two stories teach people that even though getting an education is hard some times and you will struggle and might want to give up, it is worth doing. When you can say ‘I have a degree/masters’ you realize that all the time you spent studying or worrying about getting a bad grade on a paper or test was worth it in the