1. The Narrative Life of Frederick
Douglas
By: Angela Rosales, Melissa De Los
Santos, Nelson Gomez, and Eric
Cuevas

2. How did Mrs. Auld change?
Why did she Change?
• Mrs. Auld changes from kind behavior to
cruelty
• Her change came from exposure slavery

3. Original occupation
coincidental metaphor?
• Mrs. Auld was a weaver by trade
• She was at the level of a slave before her
marriage to Mr. Auld.

4. Douglass on his way to freedom
• Education is the path to freedom
• In order to achieve freedom Douglass
demonstrates that you must work and give
forth the best effort in you in order to get
where you want to be.

5. Is the power of learning still persuasive
today?
• Yes the power of learning are still persuasive
today.
• Education= High Paying Job

6. Is education a key to achieving justice?
• Yes education is the key that leads to opening
the lock of justice.

7. Does all the oppressed feel that
education is key to freedom?
• Some believe there are other routes that will
bring them to freedom.
• Most do believe that education will bring
them freedom

8. Why is Douglass disturbed over his
grandmother?
• Douglass becomes disturbed because she is
meant to die alone.
• Douglass grandmother nurtured the slaveholder
as her own children
• When she became of old age she was sent to the
woods and abandoned.
• He wanted her to be surrounded by her children
or grand children.
• “Instead of the voices if her children, she hears by
day the moan of the dove…. All is gloom. The
grave is at the door.”

9. Changes in the Slaveholders
• A few of the slaveholders such as Mr. Thomas
Hamilton, were cruel men.
• The slaves barely had enough to eat
• The slaveholders would beat their slaves close
to death
• Most of the slaveholders though, treated their
slaves fairly.

10. Prevalent themes in chapters 6, 7, & 8
• Dehumanization- for it is almost unpardonable
offense to teach slaves to read in this Christian
country.
• Imagery- This bread I used to bestow upon the
hungry little urchins , who in return, would give
me that more valuable bread of knowledge.
• Rhetorical Device- had given me the inch, and no
precaution could prevent me from taking the ell

11. The emotions of the chapters.
• The chapters were rich with descriptions
• Douglass depicted so vividly his journey
through slavery.

12. Favorite Quote
• “What he most dreaded, that I most desired.
What he most loved, that I most hated. That
which to him was great evil, to be carefully
shunned, was to me a great good”
• Douglass makes a comparison with his
emotions towards slavery and his masters.

13. Lessons to be Learned
• Douglass notes that the new mixed race of
slaves would create a contradiction between
the slave laws in America.

14. Works Cited
• Jacobus, Lee. A World Of Ideas(Essential
Readings For College Writers). Print
• http://0-
ahiv.alexanderstreet.com.library.dcccd.edu/

15. Reading Experience