frederick douglas
In his passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Douglas leads us into the mind of a slave-and we see that it is not that different from any other being today. Douglas’ passage here implies that he has not given up hope, and although he appears to be broken in body and soul, he still has faith. ... The manner in which Douglas constructed his first two paragraphs was, for the most part, the same. ... This transition in sentence structure implies a change from a description of everyday life of a slave to Douglas’ jumbled thoughts of his desire of freedom.