QUOTES
"Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan Land,
taught my benighted soul to understand
that there's a God. . ."
Phillis Wheatley
talking about her conversion to Christianity
Franklin's "Way to Wealth" includes many of these pithy little phrases.
Aphorisms
Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing was somewhat over the top in presenting feelings and emotions. This type of writing is called what?
melodrama
Emerson stated that we should try to be more like children. What did he mean?
That the way children look at the world, before society influences them, is more honest and a better way to be.
China
Above the Equator
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
on the difficulty of being yourself in the midst of all the conforming pressures in society.
Franklin made up the story of Polly Baker to make what point about society?
That religious laws and government laws should be kept separate.
This is known as secular
Harriet Jacobs thought that her slave mistress might protect her. Was she right? Why or why not?
No, because wives of slave owners took out their anger on the slaves rather than on their husbands.
What did Thoreau mean when he said that most people are not quite awake?
That most people "sleep" through life going through the daily routine and are not "awake" enough to really see and experience all the world has to offer.
India
above the Equator
That minds are not alike full well I know,
This truth each day's experience will show;
to heights some great spirits soar
but there are some who wish not to improve. . .
Judith Sargent Murray
mentioning that there are two types of people in the world
Why does money seem to be the emphasis of so much of Franklin's writing?
Franklin connects the idea of financial independence with personal freedom
The idea behind Sentimentalism was what?
That emotions can be used to persuade people on important social issues.
Whitman was rather bored by the astronomer's lecture. Why?
He was less interested in understanding nature through numbers and figures and data as he was just enjoying the more magical, mystical experience of looking at the stars.
Columbia
intersected by the Equator
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
on hoping to discover what life is about through his time in nature.
In order to become a better person, Franklin comes up with what kind of method?
A chart of values that he will keep track of himself doing on a weekly basis.
Frederick Douglass emphasized that he fought off Mr. Covey because why?
He needed to show the audience that he had power and could stand up for himself and was not merely to be pitied.
Poe wrote about this aspect of Romanticism, often referred to as Dark Romanticism.
that negative emotions are just as interesting and important as positive ones.
Madagascar
below the Equator
"I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble to learn how to read. . . . What he most dreaded, I most desired. . . . and the argument against my learning to read only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn."
Frederick Douglass explaining the importance of reading and how dangerous slave owners knew it to be.
Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton all exemplified this way of looking at the world.
The Enlightenment
Douglass also talked about ways slave owners messed with enslaved people's minds to keep them from rebelling. What is at least one of them?
not knowing your birthday
ruining holidays
keeping them from reading
Emerson felt that it was very important for people to speak their own original thoughts and not to doubt themselves. Why?
Because if you don't speak, someone else will say what you were thinking all along.
Kenya
Intersected by the Equator