Frederick Douglass(Learning to Read and Write)

I feel this story also relates to racism and its message to life in the older days. This talks about how Frederick Douglass learned to read and write, how he was taught, and how he learned the ways of whites at a young age. To me Frederick Douglass is an icon past my wildest dreams because he shows a good sense of well being. He always tried to help and fight for blacks and their rights as human beings. He never stopped trying and brought new ideas to the freedom of blacks.

The beginning of this story talks mainly about Frederick Douglass learning to read and write. As we all should know, it was very hard for blacks to accomplish anything academically. All because the color of their skin. So to me I feel that's very good that he was able to get around racism and education. Not too many blacks could afford a good education or find one that wasn't with whites. It was very hard for them and I congratulate him on that. For him to be young and to get the education that older people wish they could have.

The reason why it was so easy for him to get the good education that many wished they had is because he was taught by his mistress. Unlike others of his kind, many didn't have people that were well educated and could help them be literate and comprehensive. The ones that did have people to teach them things they didn't receive as much as the whites. The whites felt why spend money on these people that are stupid. Even thought that was very arrogant of them to do, they continued to keep doing that to make blacks lives miserable.

I feel that not only did Frederick Douglass learn things academically. I felt he learned more about racism and what whites did to trick and play blacks. When the text said that whites told him to escape, he took that information and applied it to logic. He knew that whites told blacks that and then capture them and turn them in for rewards. That shows that whites were vary cruel and evil and will do anything for money, even if blacks are on the line.

In conclusion- I feel that over all, this story was really good. It relayed a message that I felt was once again to use logic. I also feel that most stories that dealt with racism and slavery involved blacks having to use logic. Frederick Douglass used perfect thinking skills and out smarted the whites when they thought they were out smarting the blacks. He rose to the occasion and lead our people out of slavery. I feel this is related to logos because like i said, you have to have good logic skills to identify the message.