Analysis of Fredrick Douglass:-
The intended audience:-
- New generation who do not have knowledge about slavery.
- Whites and free blacks people.
- People from different culture and background.
Author's purpose:-
- Inspiring people through history of slavery.
- Conveying an image about suffering of the slaves.
Logos:-
- Content is organized logically since it started from early age till adult age.
Pathos:-
- By using personal pronoun (I), he tried to showing his suffering.
- Sad, shocking story, sympathy, and shame because what happened to them.
- Describing torturing scene.
- Couldn't see her mother before her death.
Ethos:-
- He is a slave.
- His determination to learn reading and writing.
- don't know his birth date and father.
Pathos:-
- By using personal pronoun (I), he tried to showing his suffering.
- Sad, shocking story, sympathy, and shame because what happened to them.
- Describing torturing scene.
- Couldn't see her mother before her death.
Ethos:-
- He is a slave.
- His determination to learn reading and writing.
- don't know his birth date and father.
*Critical reading look for missing information, hyperbole and understatement, and pattern.
*Pattern (analysis):-
p.3- [Mr. plummer] would whip [my own aunt] to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin...It was the blood-stained gate, [the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.]
- scene reflected the brutal treatment of slaves by their slaveholders
p.3- [Mr. plummer] would whip [my own aunt] to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin...It was the blood-stained gate, [the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.]
- scene reflected the brutal treatment of slaves by their slaveholders
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