Doulgas and Twain,Alex Gutierrez

Period:9

1/31/12

In Fredericks story In “Life and Times Of Frederick Douglas” he explains to us his past experiences about slavery and what happened throughout those times. When he tries to escape his slave owner because he would always beat him, he finds that no matter where he was to go it would still be the same. No one would help him. When he left his house and went to Mr. Covey he expected that he would help him escape his horror. Turns out that he was the same and did not help him whatsoever. If someone wants to leave a horrible place they are in, leaving that place doesn’t make anything better, and it can actually make it worse than it already was. He explains to us that there is a lot of racism during that time period between whites and blacks.

Mark Twain write that is no matter what happens if a black leaves a white should report it. Huckleberry Finn and Jim are in his story. They become friends at one point and when Huck leaves, Jim gets worried. Yes back then people thought blacks didn’t have feelings, so they would say mean things to them. When Huck left Jim was heartbroken he thought something awful had happened to Huck, but nothing did. Huck returned and Jim was sleeping so he decided to play a trick on him and make him believe that it was all a dream and he was really there the whole time. Jim believes it until they get to the boat and he realizes that Huck had played a game on him. Huck felt bad and he said sorry to Jim, but after he said, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to him, but I done It, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards.” He means that he is sorry but if the people were to know he apologized they would all dislike him.
They try to make us realize if you break away from a place and you are expected to do something big there, you will get some consequences but other times it will help you. InFredericks case leaving his slave owner kind of helped him because even though he had to go back he never again experienced a whipping from him, they did get into fights but the one thing he never received was the whipping. They explain to us how much racism there was towards blacks and that no white should ever feel sorry for them like how Huck did.