Plot
With the help of his Mistress, Douglass learns
What is to read?
Page 32 bottom left panel: graphic novel concept used to suggest the "mystery of reading"
what is graphic weight?
"If a cow does not need to read, or a pig does not need to write, why would a slave need the ability to do either?"
What is metaphor?
Teaches Douglass to read
Who is Mrs. Sophia Auld?
Spiritual bottoming out after Douglass is forbidden to read
What is pathos?
Douglass makes money by
What is shining shoes?
Page 37: Tone suggested by the spatial arrangement
What is mournful, depressed, hopeless...?
"Outside my bedroom, I could hear the haunting clang of chains and leg-irons as slaves were brought to market."
What is imagery that appeals to sound?
Hired to break Douglass
Who is Mr. Covey?
"With each word I learned to read, with each sentence I could recite, there grew in me a feeling that I had never felt before ... That feeling was power."
What is ethos?
Finds Douglass in the woods and cares for him
Who's is Sandy Jenkins?
Page 39: Supports the the theme of becoming unfit to be a slave (3 terms)
What is bleed, background and foreground?
"Night after night the sounds sang out to me as a mournful dirge."
What is personification?
Forbids Douglass to read
Who is Mr. Hugh Auld?
"Do you realize that what you have done here (teaching Douglass to read) is unlawful?"
What is logos?
During Douglass' fight with Covey other slaves
Refuse to help Covey restrain Douglass?
Page 52: Douglass is depicted as "...a changed being" ... Now "...a man"
What is size of figures?
"Not all who read learn."
"Not all who learn understand."
"And not all who understand care."
What is repetition?
Gives Douglass the magic root
"...I was sent to work for a year's time with a man known to be a slave breaker. ... Edward Covey specialized in breaking slaves."
What is ethos?
Turning point in Douglass' life
The day Douglass fights Covey?
Page 34 middle row: Used to lump Douglass' lessons together
What is no gutter?
"I cowered in the woods, not unlike an injured animal."
What is simile?
Teaches Sunday school for colored children
Who is Douglass?
"I ran away from Covey's farm, hoping that if I begged Master Thomas he would take pity on me. I reasoned that as his property, he would not want to see me as damaged as I was at the hands of Covey."
What is logos?