Engl130 MKYT: Slavery: Turning Slaves and Slaveowners alike into...: In the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass , an American Slave , the author Fredrick Douglass recounts his experiences as a man...
Again, the internet hates me.
I really like this idea of everyone being compared to animals - kind of like 'Animal Farm' only instead of animals representing humans, humans are representing animals in a way. It really goes to show that by treating other people like animals and being cruel and not even trying to use basic courtesy towards another human, you're making yourself an animal as well and reversing those things which we believe to be that which separates us from animals. I also really liked how you pointed out the quote of how he viewed them as being cowardly as well as cruel because only people who think that they may be challenged use meanness and fear to rule. This idea is also reinforced when he has that fight with Mr. Covey and he doesn't admit that he got beat by a black man but instead acts as though he won.
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